Hospital catering workers strike on May Day
UNISON members in south Yorkshire are marking May Day with a strike for fair pay today – the first of 11 strike days they have planned throughout the month. The members taking action are around 70 catering staff at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals trust. They were transferred to a private company – facilities management giant Sodexo – in 2017 and are striking against the company’s refusal to pay the Agenda for Change pay rise agreed last year for health staff employed by the NHS. “Doncaster workers are striking as a last resort because Sodexo has refused to honour the national agreement,” said union r...
Source: UNISON Health care news - April 30, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: Tony Braisby Tags: News health care hospitals Industrial action outsourcing pay pay up now private contractors strike Source Type: news

Will a shower of April wins help us flower in May?
With UNISON’s campaign for Go for Growth in May already underway, it’s time to look back on an April that produced more than a few illustrations of just what the UK’s biggest union can do. It began (as these things do) on the first of the month, when we celebrated 20 years of the national minimum wage – an achievement that UNISON made possible. In 1999, we were told that it would cost millions of jobs – but we know how that turned out. But we’re not resting on our laurels and UNISON is committed to campaigning for a real living wage for all. And that’s why, at a Parliamentary reception to mark the anniver...
Source: UNISON Health care news - April 30, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News 2019 Health Conference Bring them in environment agency health and safety international workers' memorial day LGPS living wage local government nhs pay OCS one wage any age pensions divestment Source Type: news

STERLING PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES, LLC Motion to Dismiss DENIED in...
The lawsuit is the result of a business deal gone wrong between Vision Pharma, LLC (Plaintiff) and the company it outsourced the manufacture of some its drugs to, Sterling Pharmaceutical Services, LLC...(PRWeb April 25, 2019)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/sterling_pharmaceutical_services_llc_motion_to_dismiss_denied_in_multi_million_dollar_lawsuit_brought_against_the_company/prweb16263467.htm
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - April 25, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Trio of trusts to outsource pathology services
Three trusts’ pathology services look likely to be outsourced in an STP-wide procurement process.
Source: HSJ - April 24, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Could Secret Sales Bar Your Ability to Patent a Medical Device?
A recent Supreme Court decision could have a significant impact on medical device manufacturers. These companies must continue to exercise caution in engaging in confidential sales and offers with outside partners—such as in contracts for device prototype development or stockpiling of products—before filing patent applications. Medical device manufacturers should ideally file patent applications before entering into such agreements or, if not feasible, structure the agreements to reduce the risk of triggering the on-sale bar. These guidelines are based on the Helsinn Healthcare v. Teva P...
Source: MDDI - April 23, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michelle Nyein and Michael J. Pomianek Tags: Regulatory and Compliance Source Type: news

Government must pay up to end growing NHS pay divide, says UNISON
The government must find the money to ensure tens of thousands of low-paid cleaners, porters, security guards and catering staff working for private contractors in hospitals across England receive the same pay rise as colleagues employed by the NHS, says UNISON today (Sunday). The lowest paid workers in the NHS were given a £2,000 pay rise last year, as part of a three-year deal negotiated by health unions. But the overwhelming majority of health staff employed on private contracts have not received a penny, says UNISON. Many outsourced staff haven’t had a wage rise in years and the growing pay divide is affecting the s...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - April 6, 2019 Category: Food Science Authors: Alison Charlton Tags: News Press release health care Source Type: news

UCL staff say: ‘ Bring them in! ’
UNISON held a noisy and good-humoured protest at University College London (UCL) today, as the first part of a campaign to persuade the university to bring outsourced staff back in house. Shouts of “End outsourcing – in house now!” and “UCL – bring them in!” rang around the courtyard, as members, reps and organisers gathered in front of the university’s art gallery, bringing a burst of purple to the grey day. Organiser Madeline Taylor explained that the university “currently outsources its cleaning and catering and security services.” The cleaning and catering staff are employe...
Source: UNISON Health care news - April 4, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News Bring them in higher education outsourcing Source Type: news

Education unions warn academy trusts over cuts
The UK’s largest academy chain faces a potential dispute with seven education unions [1] over job cuts, low wages and outsourcing. The unions have now registered a failure to agree with London-based Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) which means the trust now has to halt all cuts and outsourcing to allow for last ditch talks at conciliation service ACAS. Unions have been forced into this step by AET’s refusal to engage in meaningful negotiation over a variety of issues. These include AET’s unwillingness to provide essential financial information on its plans for its schools, outsourcing of school services, holding d...
Source: UNISON Health care news - April 3, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: Charlotte Jeffs Tags: News Press release academies academy schools education Jon Richards Source Type: news

Lanarkshire college earns living wage accreditation
New College Lanarkshire has officially been named an accredited living wage employer by Living Wage Scotland. Last week’s announcement means that everyone working at the college – regardless of whether they are direct employees or third-party contracted staff – receive a minimum hourly wage of £9. This rate is significantly higher than the statutory minimum for over-25s of £7.83 per hour introduced in April 2018 and calculated by the Living Wage Foundation to more realistically reflect the cost of living. UNISON reps at the college, Moira Jarvie and Collette Bradley, told the Daily Record: “UNISON is pleased that...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - March 18, 2019 Category: Food Science Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News higher education living wage Source Type: news

Public service workers deserve better than poverty wages, says UNISON
Commenting on new data published today (Thursday) by the Living Wage Foundation that shows over one million public sector workers are earning less than the real living wage, UNISON assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said: “Hundreds of thousands of workers delivering essential public services are on poverty pay. Many have second and even third jobs just to keep the wolf from the door. This is taking a toll on their health, family life and productivity too. “Last year’s NHS and council pay deals saw the lowest-paid workers’ wages go above the real living wage. But colleagues on outsourced contracts in care...
Source: UNISON Health care news - February 28, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: Press release Christina McAnea Living Wage Foundation pay Source Type: news

Bring probation contracts back into public control to avoid further disaster
Responding to today’s insolvency of Working Links – a company that oversees three outsourced probation contracts – UNISON national officer for police and justice Ben Priestley said: “This privatisation has been a disaster and one that was long predicted. The government must immediately step in to bring these collapsed services back in-house. “The priority is to reassure the public in the South West and Wales that communities will remain protected. Staff too need assurances about their jobs, and that they will still be paid. “This is yet another catastrophe to be added to Chris Grayling’s growing record of ...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - February 15, 2019 Category: Food Science Authors: Anna Mauremootoo Tags: Press release ben priestley probation Source Type: news

Liverpool hospital staff give 100% backing to industrial action
Outsourced cleaners, catering staff, porters and security officers at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital could take strike action later this month after voting for action over pay by 100% in an 83% turn-out. There are more than 40 of the hospital workers, who are employed by the private company OCS and among the lowest-paid staff working in the NHS. The company is not paying NHS pay rates, costing staff up to £2,150 this year alone. “This is a real injustice that must be addressed,” said UNISON regional organiser Maria Moss after the vote. “Nobody working in the hospital should be on poverty pay,” she added. “...
Source: UNISON Health care news - February 5, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: Tony Braisby Tags: Article News health care Industrial action outsourcing pay private contractors Source Type: news

North-west members vote for action over pay
Outsourced cleaners, catering staff, porters and security officers at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital could take strike action later this month after voting for action over pay by 100% in an 83% turn-out. There are more than 40 of the hospital workers, who are employed by the private company OCS and among the lowest paid staff working in the NHS. The company is not paying NHS pay rates, costing staff up to £2,150 this year alone. “This is a real injustice that must be addressed,” said UNISON regional organiser Maria Moss after the vote. “Nobody working in the hospital should be on poverty pay,” she added. “...
Source: UNISON Health care news - February 5, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: Tony Braisby Tags: Article News health care homecare homecare workers outsourcing pay private contractors Source Type: news

UCL UNISON launches #BringThemIn campaign for outsourced workers
“Bring them in” is the cry echoing around the central London campus of University College London this year after the UNISON branch launched a campaign for members providing security, catering and cleaning to be brought in-house and directly employed by the university. The work is currently outsourced to private companies Sodexo and Axis. This means more than 800 staff working on the contracts have worse terms and conditions that colleagues employed by UCL itself, including less annual leave, less maternity and paternity leave, far worse pensions and little or no occupational sick pay. “Our members deserve equality in...
Source: UNISON Health and safety news - January 25, 2019 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Tony Braisby Tags: Article News he higher ed higher education insourcing outsourcing private contractors privatisation universities Source Type: news

Wythenshawe Sodexo staff win NHS pay rates
Facilities workers at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester have got their new year off to a pleasant start with news of a pay rise, backdated to last April. The UNISON members provide key services such as cleaning, catering and portering, which are outsourced to private company Sodexo. The company has been paying these workers the NHS rate for their job since a successful UNISON campaign in 2007 – but had not implemented the NHS Pay Framework Agreement agreed nationally last summer. The pay deal ended years of pay freezes and pay caps and was very significant for low-wage workers in the NHS. It is worth between 6.5% and 25...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - January 16, 2019 Category: Food Science Authors: Tony Braisby Tags: News agenda for change health health care health pay hospitals outsourcing pay up now private contractors Source Type: news

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