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In April @ImperialNHS brought our previously outsourced porters and cleaners onto NHS contracts, and I asked one of our porters how things were going today.
They all feel more valued
Their pay has gone up from £7.50 (!) to about £11 per hour
(The London living wage).
They all feel more valued
Their pay has gone up from £7.50 (!) to about £11 per hour
(The London living wage).
Our porters and cleaners are core members of our teams, they risked their lives with us during the covid surge, and they deserve to be treated fairly. They now have decent terms and conditions, a pension, and support if they get sick.
Yesterday I saw one of our porters running to the trauma operating theatre with blood products, knowing how urgently they were needed and how he is an integral part of the trauma response.
Outsourcing these roles is wrong and penalises the poorest paid members of our teams. They also have families to support, how do we expect them to be able to do so in London on £7.50 per hour? @ImperialNHS I’m proud of you. Great decision.
And credit to the workers themselves who along with @UVWunion campaigned for better working conditions!
