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After a successful 24-hour strike on 21 September, UNISON is building up to a second 24-hour stoppage on 26 September in protest at the government's decision to sell the NHS Logistics service to the German-owned DHL delivery service. The union angry that the sale has gone ahead without proper consultation with the union and with no business case being made.
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The campaign against privatisation of NHS Logistics has continued with another 24-hour strike at the end of September. Public services union UNISON also took the fight to the Labour Party conference and won a resolution condemning creeping privatisation in the health service and specifically demanding that the NHS Logistics sale to the DHL delivery company be stopped. Read more at > UNISON (EN) And more at > UNISON (EN)
The PCS public and civil service union has organised industrial action over pay at the Equiniti company which provides pensions payments systems to the NHS. The strikes are calling on the company to pay a living wage and to honour an agreement to benchmark pay against public and private sector comparators. And more at > PCS
Central government union PCS organised a fifth week of action against outsourcing company Interserve which provides services for the Foreign Office. The core of the dispute is over union recognition. Meanwhile, the union also organised a five-day strike by cleaners employed by the ISS multinational which has a contract with the tax and revenue service (HMRC) on Merseyside in north west England.