Wholly owned subsidiary plans dropped
wholly owned subsidiaries
Eleventh hour agreement to discuss alternative options
Two-week action to oppose two-tier workforce
Picket lines mark the start of seven days of action against plans to transfer members to a wholly owned subsidiary private company
Bradford hospital staff start industrial action vote over NHS trust’s plans to transfer them to wholly owned subsidiary company
Responding to the transfer of more than 700 staff at Chesterfield Royal Hospital Trust to a new private arm’s-length company this week
UNISON will be making full use of this guidance in our scrutiny of any future trust plans to set up subsidiaries
UNISON members win in the courts and through industrial action
‘I’ve never had to go on strike before, but we’re all standing together and I’m not scared’ – hospital domestic Andrea Lea
Strike by ‘subco’ staff will start on 11 October
This whole policy has been a damaging distraction. Valuable resources that could have gone on improving care have been wasted.
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
Packed Teesside meeting highlights health staff’s anger and worry of plans to hand them over to a private company