Lessons from the U.K.

Fighting Back Against Hospital Privatization, and Winning

THURSDAY JANUARY 16, 2003, VANCOUVER: Scottish midwife and union activist Carolyn Leckie continued her tour of B.C. hospitals speaking to a meeting of the Hospital Employees' Union, St. Paul's Hospital local. She described how unionized workers in Scotland are successfully fighting back against the privatization of health care support services.

Leckie is the Branch Secretary for Glasgow North UNISON hospitals in Scotland. UNISON is Britain's largest trade union with over 1.3 million members.

In 2002 Leckie and her union successfully battled the multi-national corporation Sodexho for fair wages and benefits for hospital workers.

Click on the links below for webcasts of her comments.

Introduction, Raj Sandhanwalia RT: 6:00

Carolyn Leckie, Part 1 RT: 14:26

Carolyn Leckie, Part 2 RT: 15:06

Some of the other working TV webcasts on health care privatization:

Dr. Allyson Pollock on Privatization of Health Care in Britain
CCPA Forum on Public-Private Partnerships
Damaged Care: American doctor warns B.C. of private health care
Dirty Tricks: BC Privatization Agenda Exposed
Hands Off Medicare!
Health Care? or Tax Cuts?
BC Citizens Say NO! to Private Hospital
Bill 29 - One year after
Lessons from Ontario
Private Hospital Could Cost More
Maude Barlowe: Profit is Not the Cure
Teach In on the GATS

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This Page Posted February 03, 2003