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ANCILLARY workers at a Yorkshire hospital have launched a hard-hitting campaign for a fair wage.
Cleaners, porters, catering staff and security guards at Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax, West Yorkshire, have had their pay slashed to the legal minimum wage of £8.91 an hour — less than is paid at other hospitals in West Yorkshire — since their jobs were “outsourced” from the NHS to transnational corporation ISS.
The campaign for a fair wage, launched by general union GMB, calls for parity with NHS pay.
Union organiser Joe Wheatley said: “GMB members at ISS have put themselves at risk over the last two years — at risk of getting infected and at risk of infecting their family.
“ISS are showing a total disregard for the risks these workers have undertaken and only offering a slap in the face to these workers as they keep them down on minimum wage.
“Our members demand to ISS is simple — we are NHS workers; we should be paid NHS wages.”
The company was invited to comment.
