Union announces ‘historic’ victory for outsourced cleaners as NHS employs them directly
A general view of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London
OUTSOURCED cleaners at Great Ormond Street Hospital are to be employed directly by the NHS in a “historic” victory for workers, their union announced today.
The decision marks the end of decades of outsourcing at the children’s hospital in Bloomsbury, London, and a £10 million contract with outsource giant OCS.
The hospital’s 100 cleaners, who are members of United Voices of the World, had been set to vote in a ballot for strike action in their bid to be brought back in-house by the NHS.
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