A campaign to return England’s privatised water companies to public ownership has been launched by Tim Roache, general secretary of the GMB union. Roache said the £58m ($77.5m) received in pay and benefits by the bosses of the country’s just nine water and sewage firms over the past five years, at the same time as customers’ water bills saw above-inflation increases, was a “national scandal”. The opposition Labour Party is backing the “Take Back the Tap” campaign.
A campaign to return England’s privatised water companies to public ownership has been launched by Tim Roache, general secretary of the GMB union. Roache said the £58m ($77.5m) received in pay and benefits by the bosses of the country’s nine water and sewage firms over the past five years, at the same time as customers’ water bills saw above-inflation increases, was a “national scandal”. The opposition Labour Party is backing the “Take Back the Tap” campaign.