Communist Web Saturday 11th March 2000 9.30pm gmt ...And then there was nothing! You work for 38 years for a company. Nearly every day of your life is spent creating profit for this company. The company goes broke , or so they say , and you are left after a lifetime of work with nothing. This unfortunately is becoming an all too common occurrence , there are many cases where workers have been left with nothing. If a worker takes the companies assets then he/she is branded a thief and put in jail , but under the laws of the land , the capitalist's laws , it is an acceptable situation that money and entitlements that were the possession of workers , can be stolen by companies. Desperate action is needed to make it impossible for the capitalist enterprise to have any access to the entitlements of workers and to make sure that all workers receive their full entitlements in the advent of company closures. This guarantee for workers needs to be enshrined in law. Howard / Reith scheme a fraud. The Government through Howard and Reith have proposed a new system that offers workers a portion of their entitlements upon company closures. Their system is a fraud. It is an escape path for businesses who use workers entitlements in their operating accounts or to line the pockets of directors. The company's ability to undertake such action is what needs to be tackled. A scheme that part pays workers and lets the bandits go free as Howard and Reith suggest is another example... http://www.billkath.demon.co.uk/cw/and/and.html
