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SCOTTISH trade unions have united in their resolve to fight privatisations in health and social care.
At the first session of the annual Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), delegates not only rallied to the defence of Scotland’s NHS, but railed against the SNP-Green Scottish government’s long-standing proposals for the creation of a national care service (NCS).
Aberdeenshire Unison’s Audrey McCabe slammed the scheme, telling comrades at Dundee’s Caird Hall: “The NCS is not a plan for better care. It is a press release that has got out of control.”
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
KEVAN NELSON reveals how, through its Organising to Win strategy, which has launched targeted campaigns like Pay Fair for Patient Care, Britain’s largest union bucked the trend of national decline by growing by 70,000 members in two years