Some of the biggest construction companies at the heart of New Labour’s PFI privatisation project stand accused of running blacklists to bar trade union militants from employment.
Liverpool City Council is planning a massive privatisation drive covering all of its 18,000 council houses. The Liberal Democrat controlled council wants to transfer ownership and management of its housing to a mutual company.
Post office counters workers struck at 42 sites in and around London on Monday against privatisation and closures of crown offices (high street offices owned by the Post Office).
Tenants, trade unionists and councillors from around the country were set to attend a mass lobby of parliament on Wednesday of this week to protest against the government’s policy of handing council homes to private companies.
Proposals in the government’s new health White Paper will make it easier for private companies to profit from health services, and will make the funding crisis faced by many hospitals worse.
Royal Mail's chairman Allan Leighton told a managers’ meeting last week of his intention to ballot the workforce over his plans to issue shares in the business.
British water company Biwater is suing Tanzania, one of the poorest countries in the world, in revenge for being thrown out of country by the government earlier this year.
Government plans to force through privatisation of council housing are running into increased grassroots resistance. Housing associations are turning to desperate measures.
