Privatisation
Stop the pensions robbery—keep up pressure in the post
23 October 2017Workers are defiant despite Royal Mail bosses’ legal challenges to strikes, reports Nick Clark
Theresa May’s lukewarm plan for energy prices won’t pay the heating bill
13 October 2017Some 2.3 million people are facing another winter where they don’t have enough money to heat their homes.
Warning for the NHS as ambulance firm’s demise leaves patients in the lurch
13 October 2017The collapse of a private ambulance firm in the Home Counties last week, triggering chaos for the NHS, could be a harbinger of a broader crisis.
Tube cleaners protest for decent pay
12 October 2017Outsourced tube cleaners demonstrated outside City Hall on Thursday to demand better working conditions.
Postal workers ‘going to war’ for pensions
05 September 2017Postal workers were set to ballot for national strikes as Socialist Worker went to press. They are gearing up for a battle to defend their pensions, pay and conditions.
Profit From Illness—how PFI schemes are still draining millions from the NHS
31 August 2017As the Tories slash the health service, eight multinational corporations are leaching millions in profits from the NHS.
Jeremy Hunt’s spin over NHS staffing levels will make crisis worse
29 August 2017Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt is trying to mask the spiralling staffing crisis in the NHS through spin about hiring more workers.
Private hospitals avoid £52 million tax bill by posing as charities
22 August 2017Private hospitals will dodge up to £52 million in business rates over the next five years, according to surveyors CVS.
Warning—fat cat thieves are operating out of your train station
14 August 2017Commuters in Britain spend six times as much on rail fares as passengers in the rest of Europe.
Tories’ punishment and privatisation fuels crisis in prisons
08 August 2017Prison riots that broke out last week put the spotlight on the overcrowded jail conditions in England and Wales under Tory rule. Simon Basketter investigates
Striking workers protest against bosses in London as pay fights hot up
03 August 2017Chants of “low pay—no way” rang out in the City of London financial district today, Thursday, as workers from three disputes took to the streets.
Serco strikers go from strength to strength - join their protest
29 July 2017Solidarity from trade unionists and campaigners throughout this week has spurred outsourced health workers in east London to take on multinational Serco.
Striking Barts hospital workers say Serco’s latest offer is an insult to low-paid workers
25 July 2017Hundreds of domestics, cleaners, porters and security workers began a two-week strike at four east London hospitals on Tuesday.
Serco - the world is not enough
25 July 2017A gigantic octopus that straddles the globe has wrapped its tentacle around the NHS. Its grip grows tighter and tighter.
United national action can derail Tory assault on train unions and safety
18 July 2017Workers have announced fresh strikes that will shut down the Southern rail network.
School strikes in Ealing show the way to beat back academies
14 July 2017Strikes at a primary school in Ealing, west London, have scored a significant victory in a battle against academies.
Social workers at Kirklees council plan a two-day strike against outsourcing
27 June 2017Social workers at Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire were set to strike on Wednesday and Thursday of next week.
Bosses who plunged railways into chaos blame the unions that fought back
27 June 2017As rail unions announced new strikes, a long-buried report by former Virgin Trains executive Chris Gibb blamed them for the mess at Southern rail.
Austerity is a choice which always leaves workers behind
13 June 2017Reeling from their shattering blow in the general election, Tories and right wing press barons have declared that “austerity is over”.
Tory wreckers manifesto is only for the rich
23 May 2017Theresa May tried to pitch her manifesto as progressive with false promises on the NHS and schools. Nick Clark unpicks the attacks that they’re planning
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