Fifty health workers employed by the contractor OCS at Lancashire and South
Cumbria NHS Trust have won their strike. They have been taking strike action fromJune and in late September into early October went out on 12 days of strikes.---- They are cleaners, caterers and porters working in Blackpool and Blackburn.They demanded proper sick pay and extra money for working unsocial hours, andweekend pay in line with workers in the same hospitals directly employed by theNHS. Those workers receive their hourly rate plus 44% on Saturdays, or plus 88%on Sundays, whereas the OCS staff received only the hourly rate of £10.19. Sickpay provided by OCS was the statutory £96 a week, which forced workers to comeinto work when ill.
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