A report from U.N. special rapporteur Léo Heller was at the center of a behind-the-scenes clash between pro- and anti-private sector advocates.

CUPE is applauding the BC Supreme Court’s decision to protect Canada's universal public health care system in a ruling released today on the Cambie v. British Columbia case. The case was brought by Dr. Brian Day, CEO of Cambie Surgeries Corporation, who is seeking to overturn the ban on for-profit health care and bring a US-style medical system into Canada.

Major electricity industry trade unions are considering public protests and strikes to opposite revisions to the 2009 Electrification Law in the controversial omnibus bill on job creation, mainly over concerns that the country’s electricity supply chain will be privatized.

CEO Group and CoreCivic combined, account for nearly 85 percent of the private prison market in the United States. They are also run most of the Immigration and Custom Enforcement detention facilities, also called ICE detention centers.

Privatisation is the same story again and again: costly, inefficient, unaccountable corporate feather bedding. Labour will take back control of our public services and build a country that works for the many, not the few says Jeremy Corbyn.

Veteran Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has spoken out against the government’s privatization drive. “‘With regard to the party's policy of counteracting this liberal wave that wants to sweep off the vital parts of the state, we will address it with a lot of calm to preserve the public domain and reject such brutal privatization that Lebanon has not seen for a long time,’ Jumblatt went on. He pointed to the power of privatization to overthrow stable regimes. ‘I also hope that the parties that have not yet spoken about privatization would do so, as now is the time because poverty does not distinguish between the Shiites, the Druze, the Sunnis and the Christians,’ emphasized Jumblatt.”