Picket line of unions and health workers in the NHS, against the privitisation of domestic services by the Thatcher government. Barking Hospital April 1984.   By April of 1984, at the same time as the great Miners’ Strike, the first major strike against privatisation had broken out at Barking Hospital in East London. Domestic workers were on strike against privatisationThatcher government of domestic cleaning services, resulting in the loss of hours, lower pay and the falling standards in the safety and quality of health care delivered into Barking hospital, London. Crothalls (the firm that triggered the Barking Hospital strike by cutting hours of work and wages) who were fined in Croydon and Worthing and sacked in Maidstone for failing to meet standards and leaving nurses to do the cleaning April 1984.