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Privatisation failed in the 80s, again in the 90s and it’s still failing today

Picket lines mark the start of seven days of action against plans to transfer members to a wholly owned subsidiary private company

Grayling’s botched reforms have finally been abandoned

Time to return services to public control

Responding to the transfer of more than 700 staff at Chesterfield Royal Hospital Trust to a new private arm’s-length company this week

UNISON calls for probation to be brought back into public sector as a reunified and locally run service

Smooth handover now needed and assurances about jobs after privatisation failure

Firm’s collapse another example of catastrophic failures of privatisation

NAO report shows failures of privatised probation contracts

Welcome for reforms which could remove NHS competition

‘Our members deserve equality in terms and conditions’ declares union

Higher education conference agrees a raft of campaigns to defend university workers and the sector

It is simply horrific. It’s unlikely that such a distressing situation would have happened had the service remained in-house.

Under a Labour government the NHS and the dedicated people that work for it would at long last receive the proper investment and respect they deserve.

Outsourced staff were transferred back in house two years ago, but kept on minimum wage