Outsourced staff were transferred back in house two years ago, but kept on minimum wage
one team for patient care
Strike by ‘subco’ staff will start on 11 October
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
Voting papers dispatched today in vote over action on pay parity
Wholly-owned subsidiary pays staff less than directly-employed workers after failing to implement NHS pay rise
Nominations for the 2018 Our Health Heroes, honouring the vital work done by NHS support staff, are now open and close on 16 September