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for £25 a GRANT KEIR reviews a new video on YTS.
In the interviews with young people the message loud and clear: slave "Too udlectous • No real train. ing 'No job at the end', £Ž5 is not enough' The video starts from the fact that YTS is a con. Ironically it is the lou take up of youth on the schemes, that gives those on YTS some bargaining power. win ine nelp ol Steve Bell's penguins and interviews with trainees, it shows young people that allempi lo li prove YTS.
The video shows thai by organising trainees into Liduc ploiting the bad publicity and the vulnerable finan cial position of the shark operators, a fight to improve YTS can be waged Examples of good YTS schemes are dealt with just much as the horror siones Young bad YPS ps.
that it is possible to fight for something better.
The video's message to the wider ment is that its responsibility the 'Tuture generation' has yet to be met. Some of them die as a result the disregard for health and Services Commission (MSC) has spent a small fortune trying to sell Youth Training Schemes (YTS). Lectures in schools, glossy publicity material and exhibitions all have to be paid Convincing youth that they should be 'trained' week is not an easy package to sell.
safety conditions in non-unionised sweatshops.
Ine sponsorsmp that this video recelved the GLC, West Midlands County Council, Sheffield City Council and NALGO is a start.
Rights Wor Rights? comes in VHS format. covers every aspect of YTS. From pay and conditions to institutionalised racism ana sexism on unc schemes. It not only shows the need to fight YTS, but how to do it.
This video is long overdue. It should be shown the people. It 1s minutes long, very well made easily accessable. • It can be obtained from: Birmingham Resource Centre (TURC), 7 Frederick St, Birmingham. £12.50 Socialist Action apologises to Zoke for failing to credit him with last week's front page cartoon, which has received many compliments. Our thanks to Zoke.