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Croydon: the struggle against outsourcing
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EXPLOITATIVE contractor G4S runs the domestic and portering services in Croydon University Hospital.
Most of the workforce are migrants from Africa, the Carribean, Asia and eastern Europe and the conditions they endure daily would not look out of place in a Charles Dickens novel.
These workers are building solidarity with each other across racial divides as they become properly organised in a trade union for the first time.
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