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Strike by ‘subco’ staff will start on 11 October

“Saving money has been the sole motive for outsourcing jobs to private companies. Cash-strapped trusts have seen it as an opportunity for solving their financial woes. “But they […]

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 warns that outsourcing hospital staff will create two-tier workforce as trust starts a month of consultations

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

The call came as union members made their “anger, worry and disappointment” clear in a meeting with the union and […]

The union started sending out ballot papers today after local health bosses decided not to pay the wage […]

He pointed out that the trust and its wholly-owned subsidiary could potentially access funding from the government to cover the costs of the pay […]

UNISON campaign against wholly owned subsidiaries in the NHS Previous story: Another subco stopped before it’s […]

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.