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

UNISON members have won the battle to keep their NHS jobs, after threats to transfer workers to a wholly owned subsidiary were made in April 2019

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

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 […]

In Birmingham, they were defending their jobs and hours from council cuts which see some lose nearly two thirds of their income. A two-day strike […]

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

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 low-paid NHS staff. There’s no good […]

‘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