Staff including porters and cleaners employed by healthcare facilities firm OCS paid less than NHS colleagues
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This would amount to ‘backdoor privatisation’ and would take staff off the NHS Agenda for Change pay structure and could lead to the erosion of their rights, security and conditions at work. By […]
Wholly owned subsidiary plans dropped
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
July might have meant the start of the summer holidays proper, but UNISON and our members are still on the case
Earlier: Bradford hospital worker balloted over strike action to fight ‘backdoor privatisation’ (20 May 2019) Wholly owned subsidiaries in the NHS […]
“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 […]
That was £8.75 an hour, rather than the £8.93 of the new Agenda for Change scales. Understandably, the members were angry. As Andrea Lee, a domestic at the Royal […]
In recent months, that has meant taking on a new form of privatisation – the subsidiary company, or 'subco'. Wholly owned by public bodies like the NHS, these subcos […]
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
‘I’ve never had to go on strike before, but we’re all standing together and I’m not scared’ – hospital domestic Andrea Lea
Outsourced ‘subco’ workers reject latest pay offer as still below NHS pay