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WORKERS at a Yorkshire hospital are to strike for equal pay.
Ancillary staff such as porters and cleaners at Airedale General Hospital in Keighley have voted for strike action and will walk out on July 19 as part of a prolonged dispute.
Their jobs were “outsourced” from the NHS in 2017 to a company set up and owned by the Airedale NHS Foundation Trust — Airedale General Hospital Solutions (AGHS).
Since then, their pay has been eroded and their wages are lower than other workers who are directly employed by the NHS.
General union GMB said the workers “have had enough of unfair pay treatment.”
Local GMB organiser Joe Wheatley said: “The trust outsourced their responsibility to AGHS and in turn AGHS created a two-tier workforce that made it permissible to pay people different wages for the same work.
“We are simply demanding that this be corrected, that the trust and AGHS recognise their responsibility to these NHS heroes and end unfair wage practices.”
The trust has been invited to comment.
