In the early 1990s, the UK government introduced a policy of market testing public services in central government, testing their efficiency by exposing them to competition from external providers. The Council of Civil Service Unions argued that contracting out certain services would in fact be inefficient, lose established expertise and result in job losses.

Title	Invasion of the marker testers - CCSU poster, c. 1994
Maker	Trades Union Congress
Production Date	1994
Format	Poster
Copyright	Prospect (IPMS)
Holding Institution	TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University
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