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Cleaners at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) have won improved holidays, sick pay and pensions from outsourcing giant ISS.

The branch secretary of Waltham Forest Unison Health branch, in east London, and six other stewards resigned from the union last week.

Doncaster strikers are stepping up their fight against Care UK bosses, reports Raymie Kiernan

The Tories were gloating last week after figures appeared to suggest that workers are enjoying an above-inflation rise in wages.

Migrant cleaners at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) have won improved holidays, sick pay and pensions from outsourcing giant ISS.

Health workers in the Unison union have voted overwhelmingly for a ballot to strike over pay as Socialist Worker went to press.

Care UK workers in Doncaster are set to strike for another four days over the Easter weekend starting on Friday this week.

Cleaners and other outsourced workers at King’s College London are finally to be paid the London Living Wage of £8.80. The university initially agreed to pay staff the living wage in November 2010.

Unison union members in Glasgow City Council’s residential homes for older people have voted to accept an improved offer by 69 percent to 31 percent. 

A firm at the forefront of NHS privatisation faces a rebellion from its own staff. Workers who care for adults with learning disabilities in Doncaster ended their second seven-day strike in a month on Tuesday of this week.

Roger Hutt, a Care UK striker, is clear about the Tories’ aims for the health service. “Our society is defined by how we look after the most vulnerable,” he said. “But this lot want to erode our NHS and the welfare state.”

Cleaners at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) were set to strike on Friday of this week.