{"id":18799,"date":"2019-09-09T16:23:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T15:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18799"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:55:35","slug":"bring-privatised-services-back-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18799","title":{"rendered":"Bring privatised services back in house"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unite delegate Philippa Marsden joined growing calls to bring privatised services back into public hands as she seconded a motion on the issue at conference on Monday (9 September).<\/p>\n

She praised the Labour party for its proposal to bring outsourced services back in house.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhen the next Labour Government establishes the presumption that service contracts will be brought back in-house it will be a historic moment,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she said.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt will consign to the history books the thirty year disgrace of our public services being used as a laboratory for the very worst neo-liberal policies concocted by the Tories and their allies in The City.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

Philippa described how private companies took over our bellowed public services.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOut of the profiteers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 petri dish crawled Private Finance Initiatives and Public Private Partnerships – which loaded our hospitals with centuries of debt \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and compulsory competitive tendering, which gifted our community services to \u00e2\u20ac\u0098bandit capitalism\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she said.<\/p>\n

Philippa warned the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098con\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of privatisation doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even end when outsourcing companies collapse, as was the case with Carillion, which went into administration last year.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when the auditors swoop in \u00e2\u20ac\u201c picking up \u00c2\u014150m in the case of Carillion,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe taxpayers picked up the tab of course, just as we did the \u00c2\u014165m redundancy costs for the 3000 Carillion workers thrown on the scrap heap.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

Philippa said there was still hope for the future if we unilaterally rejected privatisation, as the Labour party has pledged to do once in government.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bLabour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proposal doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just kick out the profiteers; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about restoring accountability and enhancing democracy – putting the power back in our hands to decide how our services can be best delivered,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she said.<\/p>\n

Philippa outlined a hopeful future, through Labour, one that \u00e2\u20ac\u015bensures all contractors pay fair tax and recognise trade unions\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 and one in which \u00e2\u20ac\u015bconditions are secured by sector-wide agreements and collective bargaining\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a future which begins with the principle that there is no place in our public services for the free market,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she said as she urged Congress to support the motion.<\/p>\n

The motion was carried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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