Privatisation Follow

Workers from NHS Logistics, the not for profit agency that supplies hospitals, organised a march in Maidstone, Kent, last Saturday as part of their campaign against plans to sell off the service.

The struggle against the right wing Greek government’s privatisation plan for education is continuing.

New Labour in Tower Hamlets, east London, is running scared of the issues raised by Respect. And it has come up with a novel tactic for avoiding any kind of public accountability for its programme of neo-liberalism and privatisation.

Ruth Kelly, the secretary of state at the department for communities and local government, last week announced new investment options for council housing as an alternative to privatisation.

A joint union campaign against privatisation and for public services will be carried forward at a rally and lobby of parliament on Tuesday 27 June.

A joint union campaign against privatisation will be launched at a rally and mass lobby of parliament on Tuesday 27 June.

Allan Leighton, the chairman of Royal Mail, should be sacked and all his privatisation plans should be binned with him.

Tens of thousands of union members in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) began voting this week in an indicative ballot for industrial action over job cuts and privatisation.

An excellent CWU union local meeting was held in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, recently to discuss the Lib Dems’ idea of part privatisation of the Post Office. This proposal means that 49 percent of the company would be sold off, 25 percent kept by the government and 26 percent kept in a trust by the employees.

The anger among health workers over mounting job losses and creeping privatisation in the NHS has the potential to spill over into industrial action.

There is a battle royal taking place on the streets of east London today. On the one side there is New Labour at its very worst – bent on privatisation and mired in sleaze.

Postal workers are angry that Royal Mail has been holding back from even tabling a pay offer, while at the same time pressing the government to start the privatisation process.