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Eleventh hour agreement to discuss alternative options

“The new rules should be enough to stop most trusts from arbitrarily setting up new companies that cause more harm for staff and patients […]

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

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

Last week, the regulator NHS Improvement told NHS trusts in England to stop setting up wholly owned subsidiaries until further guidance is issued. In a ballot of UNISON […]

UNISON is running a national campaign on the trend toward NHS trusts setting up wholly owned subsidiary companies in England. It points out that a legal […]

This would amount to ‘backdoor privatisation’ and would take staff off the NHS Agenda for Change pay structure and could lead to the erosion […]

July might have meant the start of the summer holidays proper, but UNISON and our members are still on the case

This whole policy has been a damaging distraction. Valuable resources that could have gone on improving care have been wasted.

Industrial action vote follows offer of 2% – well below Agenda for Change agreement – for workers transferred to NHS subco

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

There was no lying on sun-loungers for UNISON or many of our members involved in key struggles at work

Wholly-owned subsidiary pays staff less than directly-employed workers after failing to implement NHS pay rise