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AMBULANCE drivers employed at St George’s hospital in Tooting, south London, by bungling privateers G4S are on strike today.
The G4S Patient Transport employees are in dispute over poor wages and working conditions compared to other staff.
Their union GMB has rejected a last-minute offer from G4S and St George’s NHS Trust which failed to put workers on a similar footing to other patient transport drivers in the area or with other NHS workers at the hospital.
It says conditions for the staff have been allowed to decline as jobs have been outsourced to a number of private-sector contractors.
But G4S has suspended GMB’s workplace reps and sought to talk to staff over the union’s head, the union says.
GMB regional organiser Kieron Merrett said: “G4S must reinstate GMB’s workplace reps and come back to the negotiating table with a deal which ends the undervaluing of G4S workers at St George’s.”
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