Charities attacked for Remploy stance

By Mathew Little, Third Sector, 5 September 2007

The GMB trade union has branded Mencap and the RNID "cowardly" for refusing to meet it to discuss a Remploy decision to close 43 factories that employ disabled people.

Mencap and the RNID are among six disability charities backing Remploy's decision to close roughly half its factories. Remploy, which was set up in 1944 and provides specialist employment services for disabled people, plans to divert resources from the factories into finding mainstream employment for disabled people. The GMB is...

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