Workers at the UK’s biggest NHS trust to stage fresh strike over pay
Porters, cleaners and facilities staff at the largest NHS trust in the UK are to stage fresh strikes in a dispute over pay.
Members of Unite at Barts NHS Trust and outsourcing company Synergy will walk out from February 19-21.
The union said the workers in east London have not received a lump-sum payment that NHS workers were offered for working during the pandemic.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham (pictured) said: “If Barts thinks that our members will go quietly into the night they have another thing coming.
“They have seen their comrades at other trusts rightly win this pay award and they will keep fighting and keep striking until Barts does the right thing and pays up.”
“There is absolutely no reason for Barts and the Department of Health to be continuing to block this payment for our members.”
Unite regional officer Tabusam Ahmed added: “Our members are some of the lowest paid in the NHS and struggling to make ends meet amid a cost-of-living crisis.
“They turned up and put themselves on the frontline during the pandemic just like every other healthcare professional yet Barts are trying to exploit a loophole to deny them the money they are owed.
“We will continue this fight, escalating the action we will take until our members get what is rightfully theirs.”
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