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STRIKES across four London hospitals today expose the scandal of NHS privatisation as low-paid workers fight multinational privateer Serco for a pay rise.
Cleaners, porters and security guards will walk out this morning at Barts NHS Trust hospitals Whipps Cross, the Royal London Hospital, St Bartholomew’s and Mile End in the first of three days of strike action.
The Unite members at the trust voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action to stop job cuts and to fight for the first above-inflation pay rise for 12 years.
Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
