A HISTORIC six-week strike by outsourced security guards fighting for racial justice at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is back on, the United Voices of the World (UVW) has confirmed.

The industrial action, which could become the longest in NHS history, was originally postponed last week after the union said bosses at London’s world-famous children’s hospital were considering improvements to working conditions.

The predominantly black and ethnic minority workers, who will now walk out from Wednesday, are demanding the same pay and working conditions as their directly employed colleagues, who are majority white.