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Bradford hospital staff strike to stay in the NHS
Facilities and estates staff across the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have begun protesting out on the picket lines, demanding to stay in the NHS.
The Yorkshire trust is the latest in a long line of NHS trusts to try and transfer key support work – and the staff who carry it out – to a wholly owned private company it has set up. Some 300 UNISON members, including porters, cleaners and security staff, are taking action over this ‘back-door privatisation’.
UNISON regional organiser Natalie Ratcliffe said that other trusts in the UK have ‘dropped or shelved their plans’ but the Bradford Trust ‘seems hell-bent on imposing this company on our members’.
The strike action will be carried out over seven days.
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