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11 April 2018
May elections: a chance to fight attacks on health and social care
Here's how councils can stop health cuts: Too often, councils will wring their hands and pass the buck when it comes to standing up to Tory plans for our NHS
28 March 2018
British Museum: Carillion workers demand to be brought back in-house
I had the pleasure of supporting PCS members working for Carillion outside the British Museum at their protest on 20 March calling for the cleaning and facilities management contract to be brought back in-house, writes Chris Baugh, PCS assistant general secretary.
7 February 2018
Capita in crisis: bring all outsourcers back in-house
Shares in outsourcing giant Capita have collapsed following the company's profit warning to shareholders. This follows shortly after its competitor Carillion sank into liquidation, and underlines further the fragile state of British capitalism.
7 February 2018
York socialists head resistance to NHS outsourcing
There has been a consistent campaign in York to resist secret plans by the local NHS trust to establish a limited liability company at York Hospital.
31 January 2018
Unite members employed by OCS working in Hackney schools have won a fantastic victory
24 January 2018
Carillion crisis exposes PFI chaos
Letters to the editors: short comments on the Carillion crisis
24 January 2018
Turn Carillion crisis into movement against privatisation and capitalism
Outsourcing, PFI, privatisation, as in Carillion, is 'reverse socialism'. It is nothing other than a highly efficient wealth transfusion system. We need a movement to kick out these profiteers from public services
24 January 2018
Ballots against Bromley privatisers
Controversial outsourcing Bromley council faces strike action by workers at two of its contractors that could hit libraries and care services.
13 December 2017
South London health bosses' cover-up
The six south west London CCGs - statutory NHS bodies responsible for the planning and paying for healthcare services for their local area - recently held a joint meeting.
11 October 2017
NHS meltdown - fight the Tory cuts
There's more evidence that the National Health Service (NHS) is in meltdown. This time it comes from the Care Quality Commission inspectorate
9 August 2017
End poverty pay for sleep-in care workers
Since the NHS began outsourcing care services to private companies and charities, wages and conditions for carers, support workers and healthcare assistants have been squeezed.
26 July 2017
Bron Afon workers strike against £3,000 pay cut
Support workers for Bron Afon housing association in Cwmbran, south Wales, have taken their third day of strike action against a £3,000 annual pay cut imposed by management on the staff in the Supported Living Team.
5 July 2017
Newcastle tenants demand answers
On 27 June I attended a meeting organised by concerned tenants of Your Homes Newcastle (YHN), an arms-length management organisation (Almo) of Newcastle City Council, at Cruddas Park tower in the city's west end.
12 April 2017
Carlisle NHS privateers leave patients at risk
What kind of people would build a hospital children's ward with a firewall which stopped just above a false ceiling, allowing smoke and flames to spread? And keep these and other dangers hidden from the staff, patients and even management of the hospital?
5 April 2017
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us including top bosses' wages, luxury goods and licence fees.
15 March 2017
Unison HE conference: Delegates give the bureaucracy a lesson in democracy
Unison delegates to the higher education conference on 2 March reminded the service group executive (SGE) who's in charge by defeating them on a number of questions.
22 February 2017
Bristol: Hundreds march against council cuts
The Bristol and District Anti-Cuts Alliance (Badaca) has written a letter to every councillor in Bristol calling on them to vote against the £101 million cuts budget being proposed by mayor Marvin Rees. Councillors met to vote on the budget on Tuesday 21 February, as the Socialist goes to press.
22 February 2017
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including tube strikes and Show Culture Some Love.
8 February 2017
London Midland victory: RMT forces bosses to withdraw outsourced security
Train guards have faced down bosses at London Midland in a dispute over the use of outsourced security guards on trains.
18 January 2017
Tories torn in two on single market
Theresa May has made her declaration of objectives for EU exit negotiations.
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