6.30pm to 8.30pm
Wednesday 11th June
Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton
Lambeth Council is proposing to give massive private companies ten-year contracts worth over 1.2 billion pounds to run housing services. This is on top of transferring management of council housing to an ALMO despite failing to win a majority in favour of ALMO in a ballot of tenants and leaseholders.
They call transferring services to private contractors "Partnering" - when it is really a licence for contractors to line their pockets and run down the services tenants and leaseholders receive.
Hundreds of Lambeth staff could be transferred to private sector firms and services provided away from local, democratic control.
What's more, Lambeth Council are saying that tenants and leaseholders will not even have a vote on whether they want this "partnership" with contractors! And officers are refusing to even come up with the costs of providing services in-house through a Direct Labour Organisation.
UNISON members who work for the Council are holding a consultative ballot on industrial action in a bid to stop this privatisation going through. It is in the interests of Lambeth residents to support council staff who are fighting to defend public services, and unite with other public sector workers fighting to prevent the privatisation of the services we rely on!
On 24 April half a million teachers, college lecturers and civil servants were on strike and marched through Brixton protesting against pay cuts. Nurses and local government workers are now balloting on strike action over pay. Private sector involvement is threatening education, health, social care, the Royal Mail, rail and tube, and the civil service, as well as council housing.
Come to this meeting to hear the truth about privatisation.
Help organise the action that is necessary if we are to Save Our Services in Lambeth.
Come and join our campaign!
For more information please email info@saveourservices.org.uk.