Privatisation Follow

East London health workers have called a protest against privatisation and cuts in their NHS trust for Thursday of this week.

Over the past decade, the use of temporary agency work has increased dramatically.

More than 150 caretakers working for Camden council held a mass meeting on Tuesday of last week in response to plans to privatise the cleaning of estates.

More than 100 tenants and residents packed into a DCH meeting in Camden town hall on Monday evening calling for a moratorium on council housing sell offs, cuts and privatisation.

After his humiliation over privatisation, Lord Mandelson now wants to unleash a further attack on postal workers – he wants to slash their pensions.

The National Express East Coast (NXEC) rail line became the latest failure of privatisation last week when the company admitted that it could not meet the £1.4 billion payments for the franchise.

Business secretary Lord Mandelson’s plans to privatise Royal Mail are in deep trouble.

Solidarity from other workers is critical to the fight against post privatisation, says CWU rep Mark Dolan.

Postal workers are preparing for strikes at a number of offices across Britain – and are likely to be soon voting on national action.

Dennis Kilgariff from Oxford moved a motion calling on the union to withdraw support from MPs who have not backed the union’s Early Day Motion against privatisation.

The economic crisis has discredited the idea that the market is the solution to our problems.

Campaigners are celebrating victory in a long-running effort to stop the privatisation of a GPs’ practice at the Laurels Health Centre in Tottenham, north London.