This afternoon dozens of GMB members picketed the Euston offices of Carillion. The protest is part of ongoing strike action from staff at Great Western Hospital Swindon against a culture of bullying and discrimination. The GMB members work as porters and housekeepers in catering and cleaning and other support roles at the hospital.
Over 90 staff members have taken the step of giving evidence of bullying. Despite these astonishing numbers the manager at the heart of the allegations has still not been suspended by Carillion and is still involved in supervising these staff.
The pickets came down to London (some of whom are pictured right) as part of an innovative approach to their dispute where on non-strike days the GMB members keep up the pressure on their employer until they begin to take these issues seriously.
Carole Vallelly, GMB Regional Organiser said “Carillion have made no moves to deal with bullying, harassment and discrimination despite being left in no doubts about the determination of their staff to get the problems dealt with.
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Dozens seem to be stretching it a bit I counted around 17 very sad people. Let them get back to work and earn some more money for their next trip to Goa.
I did say “some of whom are pictured right”. This isn’t the whole crowd. I only caught up with them as they’d finished and had time to take one quick snap – this was one group, there were two others.
If they look sad I suspect it’s because they hadn’t eaten and were going into the GMB offices for food. It’s a shame I didn’t catch them in their full glory but I had to run to get even this one!
Good luck to them – really good to see low paid workers getting organised and refusing to take a few crumbs off the table!
would like to say they are not on bad pay on a weekend they are on 15.00 an hour so cant see where they can say that
Better pics can be found here;
http://www.demotix.com/news/1066095/striking-swindon-hospital-workers-protest-carillion-london-office?destination=search/context/gmb
I hope this problem gets sorted out – causing no further protests from future bad experiences at work.