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STRIKES hit ferry services linking mainland Scotland with the Western Isles yesterday as workers resisted plans to hand their jobs over to notorious privateer Serco.
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady backed the strike and pledged the workers full support.
“History has taught us again and again that outsourcing leads to a worse deal for staff and service users,” she said.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER