Education

Ejecting G4S From Leicester Schools

In recent months the multi-national corporation G4S, formerly known as Group 4 Securicor, has become a household name because of it involvement in the Olympics security debacle, which has further increased public opposition to privatisation. So moving back a few years to July 2009, we might recall that the Leicester Mercury observed that this infamous […]

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From Pie Factories to Academies

Last year at RF Brookes, a pie and pizza factory in South Wigston, it was announced that four hundred of their 720 employees would be made redundant (in two phases in September 2011 and June 2012). Under the ownership of Premier Foods, the first set of lay-offs went according to plan, with workers paid two […]

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