Staff including porters and cleaners employed by healthcare facilities firm OCS paid less than NHS colleagues
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Health workers win two-year battle against privatisation in Frimley
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
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Health workers in Bradford win privatisation battle
Wholly owned subsidiary plans dropped
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Frimley strike postponed as trust agrees not to continue with privatisation plans, says UNISON
Eleventh hour agreement to discuss alternative options
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Bradford NHS members suspend strike action
UNISON to present its case to trust for services to remain in-house
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Bradford hospital members to strike again
indefinite strike planned from 26 August if there is no resolution to outsourcing dispute
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Come rain or shine, UNISON’s on the case
July might have meant the start of the summer holidays proper, but UNISON and our members are still on the case
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Bradford hospital staff strike to stay in the NHS
Picket lines mark the start of seven days of action against plans to transfer members to a wholly owned subsidiary private company
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UNISON comments on new guidance for creation of NHS subsidiary companies
UNISON will be making full use of this guidance in our scrutiny of any future trust plans to set up subsidiaries
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A great October
UNISON members win in the courts and through industrial action
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Blog: Victory for Bolton NHS workers
Everyone who works in the NHS has a vital role to play in our health service, and this strike action has shown that those subjected to the subco regime are still NHS workers, and willing to fight for…Read more…
NEC gears up for growth
Two months of industrial action and campaigning shows why we need to go for growth, executive hears
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Blog: A decision that defies logic, common sense and fair play
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…Read more…
Bolton hospital staff strike today and tomorrow for NHS pay
‘I’ve never had to go on strike before, but we’re all standing together and I’m not scared’ – hospital domestic Andrea Lea
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Bolton hospital workers vow to go ahead with strike next week
Outsourced ‘subco’ workers reject latest pay offer as still below NHS pay
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Bolton hospital staff to stage 48-hour strike for pay parity
Strike by ‘subco’ staff will start on 11 October
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Bolton members vote to strike over pay equality
Industrial action vote follows offer of 2% – well below Agenda for Change agreement – for workers transferred to NHS subco
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Union hails trust’s u-turn on private company plans a ‘fantastic victory’
Tees, Esk and Wear Valley trust becomes latest to abandon plans to transfer staff to private wholly owned subsidiary company
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UNISON calls on Salisbury NHS trust to rethink wholly owned subsidiary plans
UNISON warns that outsourcing hospital staff will create two-tier workforce as trust starts a month of consultations
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August: it was no holiday
There was no lying on sun-loungers for UNISON or many of our members involved in key struggles at work
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