Barts Hospital Workers Force Serco To Negotiating Table

As we go to press, talks are underway between Unite the Union and Serco over the long-running Barts hospitals dispute.

- Paula Mitchell

24 days of strike action, with bold pickets, rallies and demos, have brought the greedy profiteering company to the table.

The low pay and back-breaking over-work of cleaners, porters and catering staff in the NHS has been given a national platform as a result of the magnificent strike in four east London hospitals.

Long-standing trade union activists have fought alongside migrant workers, women and men. Hundreds of workers across the trust have joined a union for the first time. Workers have found a new confidence in standing up to their bosses.