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Croydon: the struggle against outsourcing
Hospital staff in south London will soon ballot for strike action to gain proper sick pay, a living wage and to be brought in-house — this is a fight for the future of nationalised healthcare, writes HELEN O'CONNOR

EXPLOITATIVE contractor G4S runs the domestic and portering services in Croydon University Hospital.

Most of the workforce are migrants from Africa, the Carribean, Asia and eastern Europe and the conditions they endure daily would not look out of place in a Charles Dickens novel.

These workers are building solidarity with each other across racial divides as they become properly organised in a trade union for the first time.

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Britain / 29 November 2024
29 November 2024