MPs voice cross-party support for protecting the rights of all five million EU and UK citizens threatened by Brexit
one team for patient care

‘I’ve never had to go on strike before, but we’re all standing together and I’m not scared’ – hospital domestic Andrea Lea

Outsourced ‘subco’ workers reject latest pay offer as still below NHS pay

Outsourced staff were transferred back in house two years ago, but kept on minimum wage

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

