Become your own boss, Hannah Foster offers Exeter’s public sector workers

Public sector workers across Exeter could become their own boss and deliver better services under new Conservative plans, backed by Hannah Foster, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Exeter.

Under bold proposals, public sector workers would have a powerful new right to form employee-owned co-operatives to take over the services they deliver. This will empower thousands of public sector workers across Exeter.

The new right to form employee-owned co-operatives will apply throughout the vast majority of the public sector – including JobCentre Plus offices, community nursing teams and primary schools. Employee-owned co-operatives will continue to be funded by the state so long as they meet national standards, but will be freed from centralised bureaucracy and political micromanagement. They will be voluntary sector, not-for-profit organisations; any financial surpluses would be reinvested into the service and the staff who work there, rather than distributed to external shareholders.

Hannah said:
“Public sector workers should have the chance to become their own boss, with 40% of people employed by the public sector in Exeter it is a real opportunity. Employee-owned co-operatives can help cut waste and deliver better services for everyone across Exeter. This could be the biggest shift of power from government to people since the right to buy your council house in the 1980s.

“This shows how Conservatives will give power to the public sector workers who are fed up with Gordon Brown’s top-down control of their working lives.”