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Opening the debate on privatisation at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool today (Tuesday), UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis

I was pleased to hear John McDonnell note our fight against PFI last week in his speech to the TUC, but our party can and must go further still, by bringing all public services back in house, ending privatisation once and for all.

Now, more than ever, we have a chance to push back against private profit and in favour of public need. In Manchester next week, we will continue to fight for just that.

Trust announced that it has scrapped plans to create a wholly-owned subsidiary after angry response at staff meetings

Workers for private contractors are the fastest growing group of UNISON members

Conference calls for full review of outsourcing as tide begins to turn

Ministers should scrap the damaging competition rules that force the NHS to sell off its services to private firms.

Delegates at UNISON health conference voice their anger over trusts’ moves to transfer staff and create two-tier workforces

With this dangerous experiment, ministers are gambling with public safety

UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis has written to the Minister for the Cabinet Office calling for a new public service ethos to underpin the delivery of services

Council brings safeguarding jobs back in house, citing fears that children are at risk because privatised contract delivers too few assessments

The government must bring failing privatised probation services back under public control instead of leaving the taxpayer to bail them out, UNISON, NAPO and GMB said today (Wednesday). The three public service unions have written to justice secretary David Lidington highlighting how ‘risky and controversial’ reforms – where private probation firms manage thousands of people who have […]

Union’s campaign sees employer agree to bring all core support services back in house by September 2018

UNISON backs We Own It campaign against sell-off – you can help by signing the petition and urging your MP to back the Early Day Motion 152

The ‘scourge of outsourcing’ and the successes we need to add to