Workers should stay within NHS, survey shows
privatisation
Facilities staff at Wexham Park and Heatherwood hospitals in Berkshire, and at Frimley Park in Surrey have announced dates for strike action, in an escalation of their campaign to stay in the NHS. Their employer Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) plans to privatise up to 1,000 NHS cleaners, caterers, porters, security and estates staff […]
It’s time to draw a line under a system that continually wastes time and money
Privatisation demeans, damages and destroys. Privatisation was never a necessity, nor will it ever be. The toxic mix of privatisation and austerity was a political choice, but there is an alternative to this wanton profiteering.
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
‘Our members deserve equality in terms and conditions’ declares union