Our union will stand by all of those striking today, and anyone else who ends up in the same position. We need to knock back the misguided and dangerous Subco principle before it takes root.
Our union will stand by all of those striking today, and anyone else who ends up in the same position. We need to knock back the misguided and dangerous Subco principle before it takes root.
Trust announced that it has scrapped plans to create a wholly-owned subsidiary after angry response at staff meetings
Wholly-owned subsidiary pays staff less than directly-employed workers after failing to implement NHS pay rise
Voting papers dispatched today in vote over action on pay parity
Packed Teesside meeting highlights health staff’s anger and worry of plans to hand them over to a private company
And that is something that is affecting councils and local government as a whole – whether vital services such as home care or the local parks that have been a key […]
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 […]
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys trust becomes latest to abandon plans to transfer staff to private wholly owned subsidiary company
Industrial action vote follows offer of 2% – well below Agenda for Change agreement – for workers transferred to NHS subco
This whole policy has been a damaging distraction. Valuable resources that could have gone on improving care have been wasted.
Strike by ‘subco’ staff will start on 11 October
Outsourced ‘subco’ workers reject latest pay offer as still below NHS pay
‘I’ve never had to go on strike before, but we’re all standing together and I’m not scared’ – hospital domestic Andrea Lea
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 […]
Two months of industrial action and campaigning shows why we need to go for growth, executive hears