Workers Against ISS

By: Marcus Barnett

Agency workers in London hospitals are so poorly treated that their union set up a foodbank to help them. But now, they are fighting back.

An ISS worker waits outside a GMB union foodbank at Kingston Hospital in London. (Photo via Helen O’Connor)

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Early on an April morning outside of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, south London, a manager walked up to Gary Palmer. ‘My job today is to stop people like you getting out and about around here,’ he told him. Palmer, a longstanding organiser for the GMB union, shot back. ‘My job today is to ignore […]

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Early on an April morning outside of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, south London, a manager walked up to Gary Palmer. ‘My job today is to stop people like you getting out and about around here,’ he told him. Palmer, a longstanding organiser for the GMB union, shot back. ‘My job today is to ignore […]

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Early on an April morning outside of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, south London, a manager walked up to Gary Palmer. ‘My job today is to stop people like you getting out and about around here,’ he told him. Palmer, a longstanding organiser for the GMB union, shot back. ‘My job today is to ignore […]

Early on an April morning outside of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, south London, a manager walked up to Gary Palmer. ‘My job today is to stop people like you getting out and about around here,’ he told him. Palmer, a longstanding organiser for the GMB union, shot back. ‘My job today is to ignore […]

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