Unison issues NHS strike alert on plans to ‘transfer workers’

THE National Health Service could be hit by strikes in the autumn unless plans that could see thousands of workers transferred out of the NHS are halted, a union has warned.

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Unison told ministers there will be “no place to hide” if they do not clamp down on NHS trusts farming out support services to subsidiary companies.

‘The union has tabled a motion on the issue to be debated at the TUC Congress, which opens in Brighton on Sunday.

Unison said proposals by health trusts for more outsourcing are a “direct contradiction” of Labour's pre-election pledge to bring privatised public services back in house.