More than 350 workers at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) have launched three weeks of strikes to stop their jobs being outsourced
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Hundreds of cleaners, porters, housekeepers and other support staff will follow an August strike with a further five days in September, in bid to remain in-house
Health conference hears of situations where ‘insourcing’ actually means bringing a private company into the NHS to provide services
Christina McAnea says essential public services should be run for the public, not for profit
Staff at two Liverpool hospital sites who work as cleaners, porters, caterers and in other domestic services will be transferred in-house on 1 April
The outsourced workers have won a pay rise of over 14%, an extra week’s leave and the same sick pay as their directly-employed NHS colleagues
Christina McAnea praises the ‘welcome move’ that means nearly 2,000 facilities management staff will return to Agenda for Change conditions
Mitie, the hospital trust and Health Management Carlisle are squabbling over who is responsible for paying 150 workers unsocial hours payments that have been missed for a decade
But outsourced staff still have much to fight for, says UNISON
UNISON applauds ‘life-changing improvement for these vital workers’
Striking drug and alcohol rehabilitation workers in Wigan and Leigh in dispute over failed pay promises and staff shortages, halt campaign because of coronavirus
UNISON campaigning sees Middlesbrough council drop privatisation plan
Staff to benefit from improved, pay, pension and sickness allowances
Agreement brings significant pay rise for outsourced health workers
Campus operations staff at Queen Margaret University chalk up win in campaign against outsourcing threat