Great Britain: union alliances and users associations to protect jobs in public services in the face of planned budget cuts

there is currently some elementary appreciation that to effectively fight the cuts and privatisation agenda that the new government will implement in the public sector alliances of the providers and users are required. While obstacles to these alliances aren’t insurmountable, they are still important. They include the trouble these user groups have to truly mobilise to unions’ problems in uniting together around an alternative offer for what public service should be. By Gregor Gall, Research Pr