The campaign against public service profiteering ↘️↖️ Launched by @unisontheunion & @rmtunion
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Every year, £6 BILLION is taken out of our public services in outsourcing profits.
That's money for NHS nurses, care workers, free school meals and council homes.
It's time for @andyburnham and the Government to end the outsourcing scam.
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ALT Group of six people standing indoors holding a large mock cheque showing £6 billion in outsourcer profits to the UK government.
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@unisontheunion members are in Westminster today to tell the government it's time to show up for public service workers, just as they show up for the nation every day!
Find out more about the #WeShowUp campaign's demands and add your name to the petition: action.unison.org.uk/page/20…
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📹 "@andyburnham, how can you justify this?"
Transport Secretary @Heidi_Labour says she wants a railway that's an employer of choice.
Does that include the outsourced workers at @LNER ?
Or are they expected to survive on £12.71 an hour?
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More PCS members affected by the Capita pension crisis tell us why their scheme should be taken back in-house, to be serviced by civil servants. PCS continues to regularly meet with representatives of the Cabinet Office to address this crisis and pressure govt into fulfilling its promised biggest wave of insourcing in a generation. pcs.org.uk/news-events/news/…
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Outsourced. Watched. Not consulted.
Outsourced Mitie Tube workers on the picket line for Day 2 of strike action against intrusive inward facing cameras in vans.
ALT Group of people holding a red RMT union flag outside Tottenham Court Road Station at night, some raising fists in solidarity.
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Always a pleasure to catch up with @siennamarla. Read the interview here 👇
NEW: My interview with Unison general secretary Andrea Egan
— why she isn't applying to rejoin Labour
— her doubt that Healey needs to up defence spend or cut welfare
— telling Burnham he can't deliver a national care service and carry through the ILR changes
— how her pledge to take a social worker's salary is going
— she wouldn't reopen the Equality Act despite her opposition to the Supreme Court ruling
politicshome.com/news/articl…
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The government is increasingly realising how damaging outsourcing has been, says PCS GS Fran Heathcote in an article for @CSWnews
She says that there are hundreds of contracts where outsourced workers are getting a raw deal. Insourcing is the way forward civilserviceworld.com/profes…
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Unison general secretary Andrea Egan talks to Sienna Rodgers about Andy Burnham’s promise to unions, why she is not a Labour member and her pledge to take a social worker’s salary 💼
politicshome.com/news/articl…
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🏟️ EIGHT Hill Dickinson Stadiums
That's how much money outsourcing companies took in profit from our public services... in just one year.
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Outsourcing companies rake in £6bn profits from public services last year, study shows
G4S, Serco, Mitie, Sodexo and others made vast profits ‘at the expense of workers’ rights, accountability and service quality,’ Common Wealth warns
morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
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Tomorrow’s front page: G4S, Serco, Mitie, Sodexo and others made vast profits ‘at the expense of workers’ rights, accountability and service quality,’ @Cmmonwealth warns
Subscribe to the Morning Star newspaper: morningstaronline.co.uk/subs…
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If those calling for welfare cuts really cared about wasteful spending - why the silence on outsourcing?
If you attack living standards, you pile pressure onto other services.
Cutting out the profiteers ripping off the taxpayer makes far more sense.
Insource now.
🚨 NEW: A report from @Cmmonwealth has found that over £6 billion in profit was taken from public services by outsourcing companies last year.
That sum would pay for 300,000 additional adult social care workers to look after Britain’s vulnerable.
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Striking outsourced rail workers to take battle to Labour Party conference
RAIL union RMT will hold protests outside Labour Party conference meeting in Liverpool on Monday September 28 with striking outsourced rail workers to highlight low pay and calling for them to be taken in-house.
Outsourced RMT members on TransPennine contracts working for Bidvest Noonan and Rail Gourmet are striking against low pay and in-work poverty.
Outsourced workers on another publicly owned contract LNER who work for Gate Solutions will also be taking strike action next month at Doncaster, Edinburgh Waverley, King’s Cross, Leeds, Newcastle and York starting with 24-hour action from October 16.
The growth in strike action by outsourced workers comes as the Common Wealth think tank published a report which says that by allowing public service outsourcing the government was effectively driving workers into poverty.
“The government is complicit in trends towards in-work poverty that have seen the proportion of non-retired people living in households that receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes increase.
“Outsourced workers tend to have lower wages and more insecure working arrangements than those directly employed in the public sector,” the report said.
RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey also said that over one million people who work in public services were now on privately run contracts.
“That is a recipe for grinding poverty and poorer services, if the work is permanent so should the jobs.
“Bringing workers in-house makes sense for the taxpayer and the economy,” he said.
ALT Group of protesters holding banners and flags demanding justice for catering staff on TransPennine trains outside a historic building.
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Common Wealth cites RMT findings: 25% of directly employed members at English train operators were Black and minority ethnic, versus 58% in outsourced cleaning and catering.
Ending the two-tier railway is an equality issue.
Outsourcing is a racket - #InsourceNow
Read the full report here: common-wealth.org/publicatio…
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Public ownership must extend to the workforce.
This report includes train and station cleaning, catering and rail infrastructure work within its account of outsourcing.
Publicly owned operators still have divided workforces if these services remain outsourced.
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🚨 NEW: A report from @Cmmonwealth has found that over £6 billion in profit was taken from public services by outsourcing companies last year.
That sum would pay for 300,000 additional adult social care workers to look after Britain’s vulnerable.
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It’s time to end the privatisation rip off.
We need a democratic alternative for our public services. One that our communities can rely on.
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The cost of outsourcing
The report estimates that public bodies spent £129 billion on outsourced services in 2024/25, equivalent to around 11% of total public spending.
Private companies made £6 billion in operating profits from those services in the same year.
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We were told outsourcing would transform our public services.
But the reality has been far from the pitch.
Our new report, in collaboration with @unisontheunion and @RMTunion , outlines why insourcing is needed across the public sector.
common-wealth.org/publicatio…
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New report from @Cmmonwealth shows the true cost of outsourcing:
💷 £129bn public spending on outsourced services in 2024/25
📈 £6bn profits going to outsourced companies
🧰 Over a million people working in publicly funded services in outsourced companies
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We were told outsourcing would transform our public services.
But the reality has been far from the pitch.
Our new report, in collaboration with @unisontheunion and @RMTunion , outlines why insourcing is needed across the public sector.
common-wealth.org/publicatio…
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RMT members who work for outsourcing companies out and about today on a London Transport recruiting and insourcing campaigning day.
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ALT Group of diverse activists holding a green RMT flag outside Green Park Station, some raising fists in solidarity.
ALT Five diverse individuals stand together in a subway station, one holding a shirt that reads 'Public Services, Not Private Profits.'
ALT Two people standing in front of a green door on a brick building, each holding a green booklet and smiling at the camera.
ALT Five workers in orange safety vests seated around a conference table in a meeting room with large windows showing an outdoor view.