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Care UK Factsheet, May 2012

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A4e turns to Tory lobbyists

[responsivevoice_button] Its employees have been arrested, an internal review suggesting widespread

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

New campaign against G4S asylum accommodation Yorkshire

[responsivevoice_button] A new campaign has been started in Yorkshire in opposition

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

Charitable exploitation: workfare in Barnardo’s

[responsivevoice_button] It’s not only multinationals that are benefiting from the free

Asylum seekers to be housed by prison guards

[responsivevoice_button] The UK Border Agency has announced that its preferred bidders

Under the microscope: pathology gets the Serco treatment

[responsivevoice_button] GSTS Pathology, the joint venture between Serco, ‘the biggest company

‘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

Serco accused of negligence and assault in Australia

[responsivevoice_button] Events in Australia over the last month have shown outsourcing

Unemployed people ‘bullied’ into unpaid work at Tesco, Primark and other multinationals

[responsivevoice_button] Unemployed people are being sent to work without pay in

‘I was a volunteer for six months and wasn’t given a job or paid any money’

[responsivevoice_button] “Karina” is 24 years old and lives in East London.

‘Making profits from the the unemployed is reprehensible’

[responsivevoice_button] Frank, a member of Islington Poverty Action Group, tells Corporate

The workfare go-betweens

[responsivevoice_button] The coalition government’s Work Programme, launched in early June, replaces

Serco dismisses self-harm in immigration prisons as ‘bargaining tool’

[responsivevoice_button] Two people have died from suspected heart attacks and a