Staff including porters and cleaners employed by healthcare facilities firm OCS paid less than NHS colleagues
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
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Your new national executive council met at UNISON Centre early in the month to get down to business, with local government funding and Brexit dominating discussions General […]
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 […]
UNISON members win in the courts and through industrial action
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 […]
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.
Andrea Lee (pictured) works as a domestic at Royal Bolton hospital and speaking ahead of today’s action, she said: “I’ve never had […]
Outsourced ‘subco’ workers reject latest pay offer as still below NHS pay