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Essex and Suffolk health staff launch three-week strike to stay in the NHS

HEALTH workers start three weeks of strikes today  to demand the East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust abandons plans to outsource their jobs.

More than 350 cleaners, porters, housekeepers and other facilities staff employed at Colchester Hospital, Aldeburgh Hospital and several other community sites will walk out until Friday December 13 unless the trust keeps their jobs in-house.

The workers have already taken more than 20 days of strikes after the trust wrote to staff in April to tell them their jobs could be outsourced.

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