The UCU higher education sector conference focused on our current national pay claim, workload and redundancies. It also addressed issues of governance, bullying, funding, casualisation and privatisation.
The crisis in the Labour government has opened up the issue of the privatisation of Royal Mail. While the opposition to the plan – which would see thousands of jobs lost – is growing. Labour seems determined to push ahead.
The madness of the privatisation of council housing services was brought into stark focus last week as 235 maintenance workers in Glasgow were temporarily left without an employer.
The government’s attempts to drive the free market ever deeper into the NHS aren’t just damaging the ethos of the health service. They are severely damaging patient care – and even costing lives.
The intense mistrust of privatisation coupled with anger at the rich who are pocketing state bailouts, means that there is a groundswell of support for the campaign against the post sell-off.
The desertion of New Labour's welfare reform adviser Sir David Freud to the Tories highlighted how little there is to choose between the main parties' policies.
Up to 800 students marched through central London on Wednesday to campaign for free education and to send a message to the government that privatisation will not be tolerated.
