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1 February 2012
Remploy workers fight privatisation
The first strike in Chesterfield Remploy's 60-year history was rock solid after a 93% vote in favour. Many workers joined the picket line for the one-day strike on 26 January, writes Jon Dale.
31 January 2012
HMRC workers strike back against privatisation
PCS members in HMRC processing offices and contact centres took a day's strike action on Tuesday 31st January, in an escalation of a campaign against privatisation which has already seen staff walk out on two previous occasions
30 January 2012
PCS members in HMRC strike on 31 January
Around 20,000 PCS members in Revenue and Customs are taking strike action against the introduction of the private sector into contact centres
27 January 2012
Low-paid Tyne and Wear Metro cleaners fight for free travel
"If Bernard gets up your nose - picket!", was the slogan on the leaflet handed out by cleaners from Churchill Contract Services who work on Tyne and Wear Metro.
25 January 2012
Pontefract hospital: Army withdrawn - now kick out PFI!
At Pontefract hospital in West Yorkshire NHS bosses had been in discussion about using army medics to help run the accident and emergency unit, writes Adrian O'Malley, Unison Mid Yorkshire Health branch secretary (personal capacity).
25 January 2012
Greenwich Unite members oppose cuts, privatisation and racism
Unite members in Greenwich, south London, were out in force for the second Saturday running on 21 January, fighting to stop the council privatising the library service, writes Onay Kasab, Greenwich Unite.
11 January 2012
Haringey - Save community schools, No to academies
Six hundred parents, teachers, governors and other local residents were at a meeting at Downhills primary school in Haringey, London, to build the campaign to stop the school from becoming a 'forced academy'
14 December 2011
The government recently announced a plan to sell NHS patient information to private companies. They argue that allowing private life science companies access to this information could "potentially give...
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
23 November 2011
Greece and Italy get unelected technocrats - Southampton gets chief executives!
A November Southampton city council meeting approved the 'change programme', newspeak for the wholesale privatisation of council services, writes Gavin Marsh, Southampton Anti-Cuts Union.
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