Hospitals and the nhs depend on Porters, cleaners, ward hostesses and kitchen staff who play a vital and grossly undervalued role in patient care and keeping hospitals hygenic, these workers deserve decent treatment and proper reward for their dedicated work NOW!
in solidarity Peter Murry ,Trade Union Liaison Officer for Brent and London Region
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Medirest staff to protest outside
Northwick Park Hospital on Thursday 5 September over issues of wages, bullying
and over work
Staff working for Medirest at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow are set
to protest outside the hospital on Thursday 5th September from
noon to 4pm over poor wages and what they say is overbearing management and
heavy workload.
Porters, cleaners, ward hostesses and
kitchen staff who are employed by the multinational facility management company
Medirest say that they have had enough.
A recent meeting organised by GMB heard
many workers from the 80 strong crowd tell of how their workloads have
increased and that many were being paid the National Minimum Wage £8.21 an hour.
Other concerns over a
bullying supervisor were raised following the GMB presenting a petition signed
by over half of the staff of 400.
Tahir
Bhatti, GMB Regional Organiser said:
Last
year we started to speak to the Medirest about increasing the wages from the
minimum wage, as well as other issues.
Medirest
have a lot of staff paid only the minimum wage, staff who clean up after
patients, transport deceased patients and make sure the hospital functions. We
feel that there should be respect and fairness for all Medirest workers.
The
union are calling for equal wages and a root and branch investigation into the
concerns of the workers.
Workers
will stage a respectable protest outside the main entrance to the hospital.
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