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
The article Homerton Hospital workers secure living wage and sick pay victory first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Outsourced cleaners at Luton and Dunstable Hospital claim NHS pay victory
UNISON applauds ‘life-changing improvement for these vital workers’
The article Outsourced cleaners at Luton and Dunstable Hospital claim NHS pay victory first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
Heroes and zeroes
Every Friday here on UniteLIVE, we bring you all the latest heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus crisis. Here are this week’s latest. HEROES NHS staff – fighting for a pay rise NHS…Read more…
Council outsourcing firms told to ‘come clean’
Companies with council outsourcing contracts are being urged to open their books so that Unite the union can check that they won’t be using Covid-19 as a smokescreen to shed jobs, and cut pay and…Read more…
“Stop outsourcing the UK’s response to Coronavirus”
Considering that without a doubt, the outsourcing (privatisation) of our public services has contributed to our horrendous UK death toil from Covid (poorly resourced care homes run by private equity funds; privatised hospital cleaners, cooks and porter…Read more…
Currency production to move overseas
Unite, which represents the workforce at De La Rue’s factory in Gateshead,is urging the company to reconsider the announcement today (June 17) that it will cease banknote production at the site. The…Read more…
Addaction strikers suspend pay campaign
Striking drug and alcohol rehabilitation workers in Wigan and Leigh in dispute over failed pay promises and staff shortages, halt campaign because of coronavirus
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Council cleaners celebrate after seeing off outsourcing threat
UNISON campaigning sees Middlesbrough council drop privatisation plan
The article Council cleaners celebrate after seeing off outsourcing threat first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…
UNISON deal ends outsourcing at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Staff to benefit from improved, pay, pension and sickness allowances
The article UNISON deal ends outsourcing at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust first appeared on the UNISON National site.Read more…