The fight against NHS privatisation is stepping up – and winning
Thousands of NHS jobs are being outsourced to private ‘arms-length’ companies, but workers are fighting the plans.
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The UK is mired in £222bn of PFI debt. Here’s how we take on the public finance fat cats
Every UK citizen owes more than £3,400 to PFI companies – this might be the solution we desperately need.
NHS staff are fighting back against outsourcing to ‘arms length’ companies
Up to 1,650 local hospital staff across two different NHS trusts face transfer to subsidiary companies, where unions worry their employment rights could be eroded away.
Stricter regulation for Uber is a victory for gig economy workers everywhere
The company is gradually being forced to take its responsibilities as an employer seriously.
Exclusive: 85 per cent think the NHS should get that £350m-a-week promised by Brexiteers
And the health service could really do with the money to avert a care crisis this winter.
The “two-child limit” for welfare claimants is brutal and moralistic. It must be scrapped
It’s not the government’s place to dictate how many children lower income families can have.
Scrapping the public sector pay cap wouldn’t cost half as much as you’d think…
New research shows the headline price of a pay rise for our nurses, teachers and civil servants doesn’t tell the whole picture.
Care workers are now too rushed to help vulnerable people with essential tasks
Amid cuts and growing workloads, Britain’s overstretched care workers are unable to do their jobs properly. It’s the most vulnerable who lose out.
The public sector pay cap is causing poverty and misery but the tide is turning
In the first six years of Tory rule, public sector pay rose by just 4.4%. Yet over the same period the cost of living soared by 22%. It’s time to act.
Public sector workers ‘going without a daily meal’ because of Tory pay cap
The survey of 11,000 workers found that 17 per cent couldn’t afford to keep their homes warm, whilst 9 per were going without a regular daily meal.