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Eleventh hour agreement to discuss alternative options

“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 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

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

Strike by ‘subco’ staff will start on 11 October

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 […]

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

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

Recent threatened action by UNISON at Tees and industrial action at Wigan successfully stopped subco plans in their tracks.* “The NHS is already set to face another tough winter. Trusts […]

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

But as the general secretary wrote in his blog: “We will never stop fighting for better funding, better management and better pay for all our public services.” […]

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