Privatisation
Prioritise people’s energy needs and dump fossil fuels
Freezing homes, soaring bills and empty shelves are all the Tories and their deadly system can provide for working class people this winter.
Chaos of the market fuelled the gas crisis
Privatisation and deregulation mean swathes of people could lose their gas supplier—and the people to blame want us to pay
Who cares—the reality for social care workers
Long hours and low pay, services collapsing after years of cuts, thousands of unfilled vacancies, needs of the cared for ignored.
Socialist Worker talks to frontline care workers about what’s gone wrong
Three groups of strikers take fight to multinational outsourcer Serco
Bin workers in Bexley, south east London, have extended their strikes over pay and cuts.
New health bill opens the door to more privatisation
The government has introduced a new Health and Care Bill into parliament as Covid-19 cases soar.
Battles at Aberdeen city council + Sandwell leisure trust + Royal London hospital
Aberdeen workers are striking over plans to merge the role of housing officer and support officer
Council workers hit back in Norwich, Thurrock and Ealing
17 May 2021Strikes by around 170 environmental workers in Norwich are set to begin on 26 May
Victory against outsourcer Mitie at Carlisle hospital
01 May 2021Solid strikes by more than 150 workers have won a commitment to unsocial hours payments
Centene grabs GP surgeries, and its former boss is advising Johnson
05 April 2021Campaigners fear that surgeries will now be staffed in the cheapest way possible, with regular doctors replaced by locums, and cheaper medical staff.
NHS workers fight back for pay justice
29 March 2021Disputes in Airedale, Cumberland and Birmingham need support
London bus strikers say bosses profit while workers get cuts
17 March 2021London United bus drivers in west and south London struck on Wednesday over attacks on pay
Serco reveals huge profits despite test and trace failures
25 February 2021Serco, probably Britain’s most hated firm, has been coining it in during the pandemic. In fact, it’s made so much money that it now plans a handout to shareholders.
Private firm puts patients and workers at virus risk
23 February 2021The scandal of private contracts in the NHS has focused this week on health secretary Matt Hancock’s dodgy dealings during the pandemic.
US private firm buys NHS GP services
16 February 2021Around 370,000 patients, and 900 staff, have suddenly found themselves in the grip of a US vulture firm
‘We held system together,’ says sacked Test and Trace worker
08 February 2021A private firm has fired hundreds of NHS Test and Trace workers despite warnings that the system should remain a vital part of controlling Covid-19.
Tories run aground on their own privatisation of the NHS
08 February 2021A leaked copy of the government’s plans to “reform” the health service in the wake of the pandemic led to some far-fetched headlines last weekend
How government cronies were gifted a fast track to PPE profits
19 November 2020An official investigation has found that firms with political connections were ten times more likely to win contracts.
Network Rail safety failings led to the deaths of two workers
16 November 2020A report into the deaths of two rail workers in July 2019 has revealed wholly avoidable safety failures.
Fighting Serco on the Caledonian Sleeper and over Birmingham jobs
12 October 2020Workers on the Caledonian Sleeper overnight train service staged a solid 48-hour strike from Sunday, to demand bosses take health and safety seriously.
People Before Profit launch emergency jobs programme
26 September 2020Labour MPs, trade unionists, campaigners and socialists have joined forces to call for a “fightback across workplaces and communities to demand ordinary people won’t pay for the crisis”.
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