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Strike by ‘subco’ staff will start on 11 October

* In July this year, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Foundation Trust reversed plans to transfer 900 workers to NHS subsidiary firm WWL Solutions. This followed a long-running campaign and dispute led by […]

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

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys trust becomes latest to abandon plans to transfer staff to private wholly owned subsidiary company

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 […]

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

Packed Teesside meeting highlights health staff’s anger and worry of plans to hand them over to a private company

The workers being balloted are employed by Integrated Facilities Management Bolton Ltd (iFM) – a wholly-owned […]

The 650 support workers are employed by a company called Integrated Facilities Management Bolton Ltd (iFM), which is a […]

The trust had intended to set up the company and transfer the contracts of cleaners, maintenance workers, IT staff and canteen staff to it. The subsidiary could have then been sold to a private company […]

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