Barnet Unison strike over privatisation
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Around 400 Barnet Unison members will take their fourth day of strike action on Thursday 9 February.
Privatisation
Organise This! - a day of workshops on workplace organising as part of the struggle against austerity
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Date:
11 February, 2012 - 10:30 - 16:00
Location:
Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, London E2
Description:
What is the impact of withdrawing your labour as an educator, health worker, refuse collector, librarian or childcare worker; when the people most immediately affected are service users?
What strategies can we develop to make a strike powerful in sectors where our workloads are increasingly privatised and/ or we are employed on a short term or freelance basis?
How does taking industrial action fit into a broader struggle against austerity? How do we talk to our colleagues and service users about why our seemingly individual demands are collective concerns?
How do we develop forms of sustainable workplace organising that extend beyond the current climate of reactive and top-down one-day strikes?
Many of us work in the public sector and took strike action on June and November 30th, or played a role in supporting this action in our communities. This experience threw up many of the above questions, as well as practical issues about the nuts and bolts of workplace organising. We have started to discuss these questions in our collective, and now are keen to work with others who have found themselves facing similar challenges - to share skills, ideas and experiences.
Join us on 11th February for a day which will combine a morning of workplace organising training with an afternoon to discuss the wider themes.
Organised by Feminist Fightback. All genders welcome. The venue is accessible and a volunteer-run creche will be provided. Please contact us if you want to come so we have an idea of numbers, and if you have any requirements that we can help with or if you can do a slot in the creche.
feminist.fightback@gmail.com
www.feministfightback.org.uk
Suggested donation of £4 low/ unwaged, £8 waged, includes lunch.
Private firm takes over NHS hospital
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This week Circle Healthcare group became the first private company to take over the running of an NHS hospital — Hinchingbrooke hospital in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
Blood Service win
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Health workers have won a small victory against privatisation of the NHS after it was announced the Blood and Transplant Service will not be privatised.
Tower Hamlets cuts speed up
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Tower Hamlets council in east London is planning on privatising its resources department, meaning that 800 workers will be transferred out of council employment and become employees of a private company.
Army to break prison officers' strikes?
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The British state is preparing to mobilise the army to break a prison officers’ strike if they take action against the privatisation of Birmingham Prison.
This is what the Big Society looks like
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David Cameron’s “Big Society” big idea is in trouble.
Government says it will privatise post
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The coalition government has flagged up plans to privatise Royal Mail - totally.
Private public service providers: making a killing
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This government, made up of parties with an historical, ideological commitment to the rule of markets has come to power against the backdrop of an economic crisis. They will make cuts and it is inevitable that they will try to expand public sector privatisation and outsourcing under the cover of this crisis.
Ding Dong the PPP is Dead
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Little-noticed by a media focusing on one bunch of scoundrels trying to form a government with another bunch of scoundrels, it seems that the despised and discredited London Underground Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is dead. TfL is to buy Tube Lines from its shareholders Bechtel and Ferrovial, which, following Metronet's inglorious return a couple of years ago, means that all maintenance is now back inhouse. Hurrah.