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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
11 April 2012
Open the books!: Nearly one-in-four books sold in Britain are bought from Amazon.co.uk - the company has made £7.6 billion of sales here in the last three years...
6 February 2012
Defend care services in Medway
Up to 100 disabled service users, staff, carers and anti-cuts campaigners marched through Chatham on Saturday 4 February
30 November 2011
The Con-Dems don't: Two recent reports highlight the plight of the elderly in England and Wales. Firstly, the Office for National Statistics reported 25,700 deaths due to cold weather in 2010/11
24 June 2011
National Pensioners Convention parliament
Support for workers on 30 June: 1,500 pensioners from all over Britain attended the National Pensioners Convention parliament in Blackpool on 14-16 June
22 June 2011
Southern Cross bosses demand huge cuts in pay and conditions
After announcing 3,000 job cuts Southern Cross, the near bankrupt private care homes company has demanded that its workforce accept a new contract of employment that borders on slave labour
15 June 2011
Power profits: Scottish Power has dealt a body blow to its 2.4 million customers with a whopping 19% rise in gas prices and a 10% increase in electricity prices from August...
Southern Cross Healthcare's private residential home care in crisis, photo B Severn
2 June 2011
Southern Cross - Social care on the brink
Southern Cross Healthcare is on the brink of collapse. This company provides residential care to 31,000 people and has 44,000 employees
25 May 2011
Care homes privatisation hits the elderly
31,000 people living in care homes face uncertainty over their future, writes John Sharpe.
23 November 2010
Profiting from the most vulnerable
FRAIL OLD people living in homes run by Southern Cross Healthcare (SCH), Britain's biggest provider of private nursing homes for old people, pay £473 a month on average for the privilege, some pay £2,000, writes Roger Shrives.
12 August 2009
Surrey council must buy back these homes now!
The above headline was the unanimous message from the 40 plus people who attended a public meeting on 5 August...
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