Trade unions and global restructuring

Capital has identified water as an important opportunity for profitable investment. Whether it is the privatisation of public water infrastr...

Photo by Sampo Sikiö Jyväskylä is the first Finnish municipality, which has decided to part-privatize its wate...

In response to the Eurozone crisis, austerity and restructuring has been imposed on the European Union’s (EU) peripheral member states in...

Resistance against water privatisation is one of the success stories in the struggle against neo-liberal globalisation. And where priva...

Public sector restructuring is generally justified with reference to the need to save money in view of large public debt resulting from the...

Last week the Italian Water Movements Forum (Forum) celebrated the anniversary of the victory in the 2011 referenda against water privatisa...

In this guest post, written on request, Jan Willem Goudriaan , Deputy General Secretary of the European Federation of Public Service Unio...

Privatisation is a truly fantastic thing. Privatising public services would result in four benign consequences, we are told: (1) the produc...

Against the background of the global and Eurozone financial crises as well as austerity sweeping across Europe, the pressure on privatisi...

The untimely death of Bob Crow, General Secretary of the Rail Maritime and Transport union (RMT) is sad news for the British labour mov...

As a result of austerity policies in response to the global financial market and Eurozone sovereign debt crises, policies of wage cuts and ...

Poster by freestylee Similarly to the 1980s, when Thatcher proclaimed that There Is No Alternative (TINA) to her restructuring policies...

Since coming to power in 2010, the current coalition government in the UK has implemented drastic austerity policies across the public sect...

Similar to other public sector areas in the UK, Higher Education (HE) is currently under attack. The introduction of tuition fees of up to ...

UK Higher Education (HE) is being transformed. The introduction of tuition fees of up to £9000 per year induces changes across the whole sy...

The public sector in the UK is under attack across the board. Tuition fees and marketisation in Higher Education, the abolition of the Ed...

Against the background of the global financial crisis and the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, the public sector and services have come unde...

Higher Education (HE) in the UK is under attack. Members of staff see a year on year decline in their real income and their pensions unde...

Why is austerity the dominant response to the global financial crisis and how can it be resisted? How is privatisation affecting sectors su...

In 2007 the Finnish employers’ confederation withdrew from the comprehensive tripartite, multi-sector bargaining system, a step which had b...