Duncan Smith

UNISON will expose privatisation as nothing more than an attempt to cut costs and divert public funds into private profits. It will build on the lessons of campaigns which have successfully opposed privatisation and will work to develop alternatives to privatisation.

City of Edinburgh’s Duncan Smith told how his branch had linked with the public and community groups and had successfully fought off a major threat of privatisation of council services.

“Through public meetings, lobbying and canvassing councillors in their surgeries, we managed to split the SNP from their Lib-Dem partners to vote with Labour and the Greens against privatisation,” said Duncan.

“We managed to get people in their communities on our side. They didn’t like privatisation and told their councillors so,” he said.

“Privatisation can be beaten.”