Union members lobby Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust to drop transfer of staff outside the NHS
June 16, 2018 Leave a comment

Lobby of Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust board meeting 14/6/18 – rally being addressed by Socialist Party member and Unison branch secretary Adrian O’Malley – photo Iain Dalton
Mid Yorkshire Unison members and public supporters lobbied Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust board meeting held on 14th June. Following a 97.4% vote for strike action on a 58% turnout, a strike will proceed if the Trust does not back down from it’s plan to transfer estates & facilities workers out of the NHS.
Mick Griffiths, Wakefield & Pontefract Socialist Party
Demonstrators were invited inside the Trust headquarters to address the board.
Some of the board members seemed surprised that staff strongly supported striking against back door privatisation. Despite assurances that staffs views would be seriously considered the board is using ‘commercial confidentiality’ as an excuse to make decisions in secret.
Union members are determined to resist being removed from the NHS. The strike will follow if the Trust does not drop this ‘proposal’.