Unions should campaign for a radical welfare system to replace universal credit, delegates hear
Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd announces that controversial plans to retrospectively extend the two-child benefit cap to new Universal Credit claimants are to be scrapped in January
UNIONS should campaign not just for the scrapping of universal credit (UC) but draw up a radical welfare system to replace it, Scottish TUC delegates heard today.
A motion proposed by Edinburgh Trades Union Council called for the STUC to campaign for the replacement of UC as soon as possible with a system free from sanctions, outsourcing and benefits caps.
Speaking in favour of the motion, Public & Commercial Services (PCS) union delegate Steve West described UC as “a conscious strategy to demonise benefits claimants.”
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