Social care work is big business – and its business model rests on severely exploited workers who often aren't even paid the legal minimum wage.
Workers who provide essential services and compassion to vulnerable people are being forced to fight for the minimum wage.
The government spends nine times more investigating benefits claimants than it spends probing employers who pay below the minimum wage.
How to uncover the facts about the companies involved in NHS privatisation - a joint OurNHS/Corporate Watch guide, and the first in a series of bite-sized OurNHS guides to NHS campaigning.
The healthcare companies taking over NHS provision are lobbying regulators to allow their tax avoidance schemes to continue.
When you hear a politician or a company boasting about "investment", always ask what the investors are getting in return.
Serco was pleased to announce last week that GSTS Pathology – its joint venture with two London hospitals - was back in profit. But newly-released accounts show that, even after lab closures and accusations of cutting corners, GSTS is not yet the success story its owners like to suggest.
Severn Trent is the latest water company to be targeted for takeover by a motley group of investment funds. An analysis of their past deals reveals huge profits, meagre tax bills and a seemingly casual approach to ethical concerns. Once again public assets are turned into wealth for the few.
Monitor, the lead regulator of NHS, is already easing the ‘regulatory burden’ borne by private companies enjoying the new market for healthcare in England. How does this square with the body's primary remit to "protect the interests of patients"?
JADS, an organisation active in defending its members‘ interests in rural districts of Madhya Pradesh, is facing a series of trumped-up police charges. The UK minister for international development has little to say while DFID’s political and economic agenda is so in tune with the Government of In
Tax avoidance and high interest costs are diverting resources away from healthcare.
If you want to know what the UK government's 'workfare' schemes really mean, ask the people who are doing them
