Hospital workers in Cornwall in South West England are considering strike action in response to their employer's plans to outsource their jobs. The local NHS organisation, the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, is facing a financial deficit and was already planning 400 redundancies. The union said it would negotiate with the Trust over measures to reduce the deficit but then discovered the plans to send work overseas as a way of cutting costs.
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