Skip to main content
The Morning Star Shop
Glaswegians vow to ‘lock Serco out of our city’ as outsourcing giant carries out refugee evictions

GLASWEGIANS vowed to “lock Serco out of our city” today as the scandal-ridden outsourcing giant pressed on with evicting 300 refugees.

The company, which holds the contract for housing asylum-seekers in Glasgow, wants to evict those who have been denied leave to remain in Britain by the Home Office.

 

.@Living_Rent heading to take symbolic action with padlocks against Serco pic.twitter.com/XHK2VmyubK

— CommonSpace (@TheCommonSpace) June 27, 2019
The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
eaf
Exhibition review / 19 August 2025
19 August 2025

CONRAD LANDIN offers a guide to the diverse shows at Edinburgh Art Festival

The march passes by the refinery
Britain / 4 August 2024
4 August 2024
Similar stories
By-elections / 23 May 2025
23 May 2025

Davy Russell cornered over previous jobs

LOCKED-IN OUTSOURCING: Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood during the official opening of HMP Millsike in Yorkshire, to be run by the notorious outsourcing firm Mitie
Features / 24 April 2025
24 April 2025

Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES

SITTING PRETTY: (Left to right) Baroness Liddell, Claire Kob
Features / 29 November 2024
29 November 2024
Let’s take a closer look at the sprawling network of former ministers, political insiders and officials who make money from the firms responsible for soldiers’ squalid accommodation, writes SOLOMON HUGHES