Health conference hears of situations where ‘insourcing’ actually means bringing a private company into the NHS to provide services
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Why insourcing isn’t always a win
Health conference hears of situations where ‘insourcing’ actually means bringing a private company into the NHS to provide services
The article Why insourcing isn’t always a win first appeared on the UNISON National site.
‘We risked our lives – it wasn’t easy’
Workers at Barts NHS Trust and outsourcing company Synergy have taken strike action this week in protest at the failure to pay them the £1655 lump-sum payment NHS workers were offered for working during the pandemic. In the film below, we hear from the striking Unite members – mainly low-paid domestic and catering workers — who […]
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Avoid outsourcing services unless there’s a clear public benefit, says UNISON
Christina McAnea says essential public services should be run for the public, not for profit
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Hospital staff in Liverpool are coming home
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
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Parking attendants set to strike
There’s a real chance of free parking for car drivers in West London happening this month, as Unite parking attendant members give their full and unanimous support to industrial action.
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OCS workers secure major victory after 26 days of strike action
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
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UNISON wins insourcing of Serco staff in five London hospitals
Christina McAnea praises the ‘welcome move’ that means nearly 2,000 facilities management staff will return to Agenda for Change conditions
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University of Cambridge in outsourcing row
The University of Cambridge, one of the wealthiest and most illustrious institutions in the country, has been accused of ‘salami slicing’ over its plans to outsource up to 50 maintenance and estates’…Read more…
Outsourcing in disguise
Unite rep and delegate Gary Cummins spoke out on Sunday (September 26) against local government outsourcing to the private sector and warned that Labour must be vigilant against outsourcing in…Read more…
Dudley Hospital Covid risk shame
Unite is warning because of systematic failures by outsourcing giant Mitie, which holds the facility management contract for the NHS Dudley Hospital Trust, staff and patients could be exposed to…Read more…
Unions hold last-ditch talks to avert Cumberland Infirmary strike
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
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Questions over Reading hospital security guard contract
NHS bosses are being quizzed on the profit margins of the outsourced contract for the security guards at Reading hospital, who are currently locked in a ‘David and Goliath’ pay battle. Royal…Read more…
ESS ‘UK’s most heartless employer’
ESS, part of the multi-million pound Compass Group, has been branded the UK’s most “heartless employer”, due to the manner in which it is treating staff working on Ministry of Defence bases, who are…Read more…
Take bins back in-house call
Bexley councillors have been urged to jettison the controversial Serco refuse contract, as about 140 refuse workers gear up for a strike ballot over health and safety Covid-19 concerns.
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Rolls-Royce plant ‘heart and soul’ of local jobs
Members of Unite have begun to ballot for industrial action as part of a campaign to save the historic Rolls-Royce plant at Barnoldswick in Lancashire. The iconic site, which is the cradle of the jet…Read more…
Bus maker Alexander Dennis urged to ‘come clean’ over job cuts
Alexander Dennis (ADL) must ‘come clean’ over its opportunistic use of Covid-19 to cut 650 jobs and outsource work to Turkey, Unite said today (August 19). Unite has discovered that the…Read more…
Bus maker Alexander Dennis urged to ‘come clean’ over job cuts
Alexander Dennis (ADL), the UK’s largest bus and coach builder, must ‘come clean’ over its opportunistic use of Covid-19 to cut 650 jobs and outsource work to Turkey, Unite said…Read more…
Homerton Hospital workers secure living wage and sick pay victory
But outsourced staff still have much to right for, says UNISON
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Outsourced cleaners at Luton and Dunstable Hospital claim NHS pay victory
UNISON applauds ‘life-changing improvement for these vital workers’
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