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Porters, cleaners, switchboard operators and cooks are striking over an unpaid "Covid bonus" that they say they are owed for risking their lives during the pandemic at hospitals in the Midlands
HEALTHCARE workers in Dudley are taking strike action over the failure of their employer to pay them a lump-sum payment they say they’re owed,…
UNITE warned today that “systematic failures” by outsourcing giant Mitie could expose staff and patients to Covid-19 at a West Midlands hospital. The union condemned the company for running a “laissez-faire” regime with regards to pandemic health and safety measures at Dudley hospital, where it holds a facility management contract with the NHS Dudley Hospital Trust. Mitie’s staff are not confined to the firm’s hospital headquarters but work throughout all Dudley Group buildings, greatly increasing concerns about cross-contamination, Unite said. The union has identified a nu...
A GOVERNMENT recommendation to increase pay for nurses and other healthcare staff by 1 per cent has angered Worcestershire staff, a union…