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The 50 ​employees, including porters, caterers and cleaners, work for healthcare facilities firm OCS at eight ​NHS sites across the county​. ​ ​The […]

Assistant branch secretary Maura Price said: “It’s fantastic news. It’s such a relief for all involved. When I gave the news to a member, she dropped to her knees. People are saying they […]

Extremely unhappy at the prospect of being forced to leave the NHS, the affected NHS employees – who belong to UNISON – voted for strike […]

Eleventh hour agreement to discuss alternative options

UNISON to present its case to trust for services to remain in-house

indefinite strike planned from 26 August if there is no resolution to outsourcing dispute

But after a decade of austerity, those services can’t afford the shock that crashing out of Europe without a deal would cause. “Every single one of us […]

Earlier: Bradford hospital worker balloted over strike action to fight ‘backdoor privatisation’ (20 May 2019) […]

UNISON will be making full use of this guidance in our scrutiny of any future trust plans to set up subsidiaries

UNISON members win in the courts and through industrial action

Everyone who works in the NHS has a vital role to play in our health service, and this strike action has shown that those subjected to the subco regime are still NHS workers, and willing to fight for the pay and conditions that entails.

Two months of industrial action and campaigning shows why we need to go for growth, executive hears

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.

“They are not asking for much – just that their employer does what they said they’d do and pays the going rate for the […]

Outsourced ‘subco’ workers reject latest pay offer as still below NHS pay