A three-day strike by UNISON members at the Mid Yorkshire NHS Hospitals Trust, which was scheduled to begin on Monday, has been called off after the trust’s management lifted the threat of creating a wholly-owned subsidiary.
The trust had intended to set up the company and transfer the contracts of cleaners, maintenance workers, IT staff and canteen staff to it. The subsidiary could have then been sold to a private company.
But at a meeting earlier this week, director Mark Braden confirmed with UNISON representatives that the trust has stopped all work, on forming a wholly-owned subsidiary, with an agreed short statement clarifying that this was for “both now and in the future”.
Branch secretary Adrian O’Malley said that the trust knew that “the strike was going to be solid” after experiencing a tough reception at staff meetings that they had organised last week.
UNISON campaign against wholly owned subsidiaries in the NHS
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