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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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There could be free parking for New Year sales shoppers across Hounslow, Ealing and Brent if workers employed by the ‘Scrooge’ outsourcer, Serco vote for strike action. The strike ballot for Hounslow opens today (November 21) and workers in Ealing and Brent begin voting on Tuesday, November 22. The ballot results are due from December […]
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Unite has struck a landmark agreement with one of the UK’s largest NHS trusts to bring 1,800 NHS workers employed by the outsourcer Serco into NHS employment.
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Hundreds of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company Serco, began a two week strike across Barts Health NHS Trust today (January 31). Meanwhile, a rally coinciding with the…Read more…
Hundreds of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company, Serco, have voted for industrial action across Barts Health NHS Trust in a battle against low pay and exploitation. With a 97%…Read more…
Bin collections in the London borough of Bexley are to resume from tomorrow (August 25) while a deal between refuse collectors and their employer Serco is ratified. Unite said its members have voted…Read more…
Strikes impacting parking enforcement in Ealing have ended after outsourcing giant Serco issued an apology over its union busting tactics and agreed to reform. Nearly 50 civil enforcement officers,…Read more…
Strike action at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, involving back of house catering staff, has been suspended after their employer, outsourcing giant Serco, largely capitulated to the…Read more…
Fresh strikes by Serco civil enforcement officers in Ealing over union busting will cause a summer parking ‘free for all’ in the borough, Unite said today (June 22). An initial 72-hour strike…Read more…
Patients at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, East London, are facing the prospect of ‘food chaos’ later this month, after workers employed by troubled outsourcing giant Serco voted for…Read more…
Bexley residents have been warned to prepare for ‘summer stink’ as Serco refuse workers prepare to vote in a strike ballot in a dispute over pay and poor treatment of workers, Unite said today….Read more…
Serco civil enforcement officers in Ealing have voted to strike over the targeting of union activists in the latest in a series of industrial disputes to hit the outsourcer, Unite said today…Read more…
Two days of strike action this week by Plymouth tugboat crews in a rostering dispute will cause serious disruption to naval traffic in the docks, Unite warned today (Tuesday April 6).
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Patients at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel could face disruption at mealtimes this spring, if workers employed by outsourcer Serco take strike action in a dispute over bullying and the…Read more…
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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Every Friday here on UniteLIVE we bring you the latest ‘heroes and zeroes’ amid the coronavirus crisis. Here are this week’s latest. Bakkavor workers This week, Unite highlighted…Read more…
Unite has vowed to leave ‘no stone’ unturned in its defence of members employed by outsourcing giant Serco, on the Ealing council parking contract, who face losing their jobs early in the new year….Read more…
Unite has described the announcement today (June 18) that troubled outsourcing giant Capita has been awarded the contract for the privatisation of Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters and defence…Read more…
Unite has called on private companies and the Department of Health to give workers indirectly employed by the NHS the same pay increase as NHS employees. More than 1m health workers are to…Read more…
Unite warned that a plan by East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust to outsource 250 direct employees and transfer 850 Serco staff into a new wholly owned subsidiary company, was a ‘wolf in…Read more…