Our union will stand by all of those striking today, and anyone else who ends up in the same position. We need to knock back the misguided and dangerous Subco principle before it takes root.
Trust announced that it has scrapped plans to create a wholly-owned subsidiary after angry response at staff meetings
They are not being paid the wage increase agreed nationally for NHS staff. While many hospital workers in Bolton remain on the national living wage of £7.83 an […]
UNISON members will lobby a company board meeting scheduled for 4 September, calling on iFM to pay the nationally-agreed NHS rate and to apply for funding from the […]
Packed Teesside meeting highlights health staff’s anger and worry of plans to hand them over to a private company
There was no lying on sun-loungers for UNISON or many of our members involved in key struggles at work
UNISON warns that outsourcing hospital staff will create two-tier workforce as trust starts a month of consultations
Many of them had worked for the health service for more than 20 years. But the trust announced yesterday that it was […]
Industrial action vote follows offer of 2% – well below Agenda for Change agreement – for workers transferred to NHS subco
This whole policy has been a damaging distraction. Valuable resources that could have gone on improving care have been wasted.
But so far, neither the trust nor iFM has applied for the government funding that could cover the cost of the nationally-agreed pay rise. Previous […]
That deal means that an NHS worker on the Agenda for Change rates who begins in December 2018 will earn a minimum of £19,337 by December 2020 – which […]
“They are not asking for much – just that their employer does what they said they’d do and pays the going rate for the […]
There’s no good reason to pay staff a pound less than others doing the same job, just because they’re employed by a subco. UNISON will stand with these striking workers – and others fighting unfair subcos – every step of the way as they fight for the wages they deserve.
Other trusts in England have backed off from plans for similar so-called 'subcos', while action continues in Bolton where workers transferred to one of […]
