Bart’s Strikers reject SERCO's derisory offer
Date: 29 January 2022 at 21:31:29
Dear all,
Hundreds of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company, Serco, will stage a two week strike across Barts Health NHS Trust in "a battle against low pay and exploitation".Unite members who are cleaners, porters, security, catering and reception staff across St Barts, Royal London Hospital, and Whipps Cross will take strike action beginning on Monday 31 January and ending on Sunday 13 February. Unite has warned that further strike action will follow if the demands of the workers are not met.The workers roundly rejected Serco’s latest derisory pay offer of just 3 per cent. Especially when inflation (RPI) leapt to 7.5 per cent this week. Serco Group PLC had a turnover of £3.9 billion according to the latest figures available. The mainly Black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAEM) staff are paid up to 15 per cent less than directly employed NHS staff. Serco’s offer does nothing to close the pay gap between the outsourced workers and directly employed NHS workers.Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: "These workers face the same risks as NHS-employed staff but they are paid significantly worse and treated disgracefully. Barts Health NHS Trust have a golden opportunity to bring these workers, employed by Serco not the NHS, back into NHS employment“It's time to end the injustice of a two-tier workforce. Unite is 100 per cent behind our members' battle against low pay and exploitation.”
MONDAY JANUARY 31stThe STRIKE will be 24/7 from 12:01am (midnight) on Monday January 31th. If you are working on Sunday night stop work at midnight. The Strike will be at least 2 weeks covering ALL shifts, days, twilights, the night shift, and the weekend. Unite Strike pay is £70 per day. Strike pay paperwork will be done at the picket lines each day.
PICKET LINES INFORMATIONThe picket lines to support the strike will be at the Royal London (Whitechapel Road), Whipps Cross (Whipps Cross Road), and St Bart’s(Little Britain) Hospitals from 5:30am to 11am, Monday to Saturday. Meet at the main entrances of the hospitals 30 minutes before your shifts is due to begin. Nights and Twilights shifts attend from 7am.
RALLY/DEMOSImportant to attend ALL of the rallies! Monday will be the main rally. Leave your picket line early (or go directly to rally if not at picket line).Monday, January 31st at the Royal London HospitalSpeakers Including John McDonnell and other big names.(Dental Hospital on Turner Street, E1 1FR, at 11am)
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