Public Services Archive
Benefit claimant forced to accept Jubilee steward position for less than minimum wage
[responsivevoice_button] A benefit claimant was told by the Jobcentre that she
07 Jun 2012
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Many reasons to stop G4S
[responsivevoice_button] A wave of protests and campaigns against G4S in the
20 May 2012
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Care UK Factsheet, May 2012
[responsivevoice_button] Care UK, May 2012 Download the factsheet at the bottom
20 May 2012
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A4e turns to Tory lobbyists
[responsivevoice_button] Its employees have been arrested, an internal review suggesting widespread
29 Mar 2012
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An unhealthy business: major healthcare companies use tax havens to avoid millions in UK tax
[responsivevoice_button] While in public they have been presenting themselves as the
17 Mar 2012
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New campaign against G4S asylum accommodation Yorkshire
[responsivevoice_button] A new campaign has been started in Yorkshire in opposition
17 Feb 2012
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To pay or not to pay: Asda and Argos choose workfare over work
[responsivevoice_button] The campaign against workfare has claimed some major successes over
17 Feb 2012
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Charitable exploitation: workfare in Barnardo’s
[responsivevoice_button] It’s not only multinationals that are benefiting from the free
22 Dec 2011
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Asylum seekers to be housed by prison guards
[responsivevoice_button] The UK Border Agency has announced that its preferred bidders
22 Dec 2011
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Under the microscope: pathology gets the Serco treatment
[responsivevoice_button] GSTS Pathology, the joint venture between Serco, ‘the biggest company
09 Nov 2011
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‘It’s exploitation and it’s repellent’: Retailers, councils and charities benefiting from workfare
[responsivevoice_button] TK Maxx, Wilkinsons, Savers and Matalan have been named as
25 Sep 2011
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Serco accused of negligence and assault in Australia
[responsivevoice_button] Events in Australia over the last month have shown outsourcing
25 Sep 2011
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The workfare go-betweens
[responsivevoice_button] The coalition government’s Work Programme, launched in early June, replaces
11 Aug 2011
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Serco dismisses self-harm in immigration prisons as ‘bargaining tool’
[responsivevoice_button] Two people have died from suspected heart attacks and a
11 Aug 2011
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Unemployed people ‘bullied’ into unpaid work at Tesco, Primark and other multinationals
[responsivevoice_button] Unemployed people are being sent to work without pay in
11 Aug 2011
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