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Staff including porters and cleaners employed by healthcare facilities firm OCS paid less than NHS colleagues

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 […]

Picket lines mark the start of seven days of action against plans to transfer members to a wholly owned subsidiary private company

“While there now is a requirement for trusts to report any plans for subsidiary companies, the guidance fails to ensure such plans are truly transparent and made public from the […]

The month kicked off in fighting style, with traffic wardens – or civil enforcement officers to be technically correct – in the north London borough of Camden and care workers […]

Wholly owned by public bodies like the NHS, these subcos serve to take staff and services out of the public sector to save money. As a result, they’re an attack on the terms […]

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 […]

That defies logic, common sense and fair play – and it proves that all too often, a subco is a way of imposing lower pay on already […]

“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