Reinstate Richie Venton, Reinstate Sick Workers’ Pay
Scottish Socialist Party National Cospokespeople Colin Fox and Róisín McLaren today condemned IKEA’s sacking of Richie Venton and attacks on workers’ sick pay.
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Scottish Gov Continues to Sideline Workers as School Plan Announced
By Hugh CullenSSP National Secretary and EIS Branch Secretary (speaking on behalf of the SSP) The Scottish Socialist Party shares the frustrations […]
Media Release: Exposure of Care Home Scandal Boosts Case for National Care Service
BBC One’s “Disclosure” programme, “The Care Home Scandal”, has exposed the need for a publicly-owned National Care Service.
SSP Statement: Support the Revolt Against Racism
The capitalist classes of the US, UK and other imperialist powers built that power on racist discrimination, divisions among working class people, and divide-and-rule tactics to maintain their rule over, and exploitation of, the entire working class.
SSP Seeks Sturgeon’s Support for National Care Service
SSP co- spokespeople Róisín McLaren and Colin Fox have written to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon seeking her support for bringing Scotland’s care homes into an NHS style National Care Service.
Carer’s Week 2020: Make Caring Visible
“The theme Make Caring Visible is a good one, and I hope this time it will be more than a one week wonder.”
Crisis underlines need for a National Care Service – and a ‘New Normal’
To Provide for service users, to Protect workers and to Prevent another catastrophe: build a National Care Service for Scotland.
SNP & Tories Vote Down Collective Union Bargaining Rights for Care Workers
On the very same day (19 May) a new report on Scotland’s care homes described the crisis in care for older people as “the greatest failure of devolved government since the creation of the Scottish parliament”, SNP and Tory MSPs combined forces to defeat calls for collective bargaining rights for workers in the private care home sector.