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Health workers at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital whose jobs were handed to a privateer are to strike for five days over pay and conditions.
More than 200 members of general union GMB employed by contractor ISS work as cleaners, security, porters, ward hostesses, caterers and on the switchboard at the Woolwich hospital.
They want the same pay rates, weekend enhancements and unsocial hours rates as NHS staff.
GMB says ISS is getting enough money from the hospital trust to pay NHS rates, but instead has blown £50,000 trying to get a High Court injunction to stop the strike.
The bid failed on Monday.
The union’s regional officer Nadine Houghton said: “GMB members employed by ISS are now more determined than ever. They are not prepared to give up until they secure what is rightfully theirs — the proper rate for the job and an end to the two-tier workforce at the hospital.”
Their strike starts at 6am on Monday and follows five days of action late last year.
