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.”