public and third sector
News and articles about work, policy and workers' struggles in the public and charity sectors. It includes housing, but does not include most nationalised industries like health, transport or security forces.
863-AIDS
tale of toil by paxa lourde
"How many cases of AIDS have been reported in Kentucky?"
Wave of strikes sweeps Greece
A wave of strikes culminating on Thursdays pan-worker mobilisation has been the response to the scaremongering of the government amidst the worsening economic crisis that threatens Greece with bankruptcy.
After the week of riots came the week of strikes: the multifold strikes that are taking place since Tuesday 15 December and peaked on Thursday 17 with the pan-workers strike called by PAME, the Communist Party Union Front, as wells a dozens of extra-parliamentary parties of the left and first-grade unions forming demos in 58 cities and towns around Greece.
Fighting back - an Edinburgh bin worker reveals the untold story of harrassment during the dispute
An Edinburgh refuse worker describes the background ther dispute with the council, the workers' collective action, and the council's attempts to break the strike. Taken from the second issue of the Edinburgh Muckraker.
What’s behind the dispute?
Edinburgh Muckraker, issue no. 1
The first issue of the Edinburgh Muckraker, a freesheet produced and distributed in support of local government workers struggling against pay cuts.
The Edinburgh Muckraker is produced by an independent group in solidarity with council workers, to inform the people of Edinburgh what is really going on behind the lies, misinformation and threats.
We encourage and assist effective action to win this dispute. We aim to help Council and other workers to come together across sectional and union divides.
Edinburgh Muckraker, issue no. 2
The second issue of the Edinburgh Muckraker, a freesheet produced and distributed in support of local government workers struggling against pay cuts.
The Edinburgh Muckraker is produced by an independent group in solidarity with council workers, to inform the people of Edinburgh what is really going on behind the lies, misinformation and threats.
We encourage and assist effective action to win this dispute. We aim to help Council and other workers to come together across sectional and union divides.
Let’s Melt The Wage Freeze
Anarchist leaflet aimed at public sector workers demonstrating against the state's wage freeze in New Zealand in 2009.
On Friday November 27th, thousands of workers took part in rallies and marches in 27 cities and towns across the country, demanding that the Government’s wage freeze for state sector employees was lifted.
Irish Public Sector General Strike November 24 2009
A selection of images from picket lines across Dublin during the nationwide public sector strike on the 24th of November against government plans to slash public services with 4 billion euro in cuts in the December budget.
While many sections of the media tried to claim workers used the day to go shopping in Newry, pickets were visible on every street in the city with private sector workers showing solidarity with beeps, cheers and even cups of coffee.
Trade unions have announced plans for a second national strike in public sector next week if they do not reach agreement on a pay deal in talks with the Government.
State Capitalism in Britain
Despite the State being the main investor in the UK's national economy, the official rhetoric of private sector productivity is alive and well. James Heartfield takes a look at New Labour's failed strategy of privatising public services and the rise of ‘corporate welfare'
Two very contradictory stories about British capitalism are told today. The first is that the State is eating up more and more of the private sector. The sudden increase of public shares in the major banks and the falling of the railways into receivership is evidence of a return to the nationalisations of the 1970s.
Shirking 9 to 5: diary of a reluctant temp
An agency worker recalls several years' temping in London, trying to help his co-workers and do as little work as possible.
Introduction
Fools and their "gold-plated" pensions
Public sector workers have been fools. No more so than private sector workers, for sure, but it has been a breathtaking level of foolishness across the board which has led to the imminent extinction of the entire concept of final salary pensions*.
First they came for the staff of the weakest private sector companies
Then they came for the strong
