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A repository for reports, opinions and bits of writing on labour, trade union and other issues by a union activist and retired social worker.

Monday 19 October 1998

Big bad UNISON - we must be getting it right!

UNISON is a big bad thing if press reports, councillors comments and even other unions are to be believed. http://www.unison-edinburgh.org.uk/un/unsep98.html 

We are accused of being locked in the past with quaint ideas like protecting jobs and conditions, fighting for publicly funded and accountable public services and trying to save the taxpayer from the £billions wasted on the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and privatisation.

Tuesday 7 July 1998

The Schools Private Finance Illusion

Would you pay a mortgage for 30 years, and then let the bank keep your house? Opinion piece Evening News 7 July 2008 http://www.unison-edinburgh.org.uk/pfi.html 

That, astonishingly, is what the public private partnership (PPP) for Edinburgh's schools will really mean. PPP and the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is not new money, it replaces public funding, it costs more and it takes away our say over our service.