Liz Kendall has repeated a claim recently made by Wes Streeting that during Labour’s 13 years in government there were no strikes in the NHS. While there were no national strikes, staff at NHS hospitals did take part in local strikes.
that staff working at Glasgow Royal Infirmary held a 48-hour strike over pay and working conditions. This dispute reportedly involved around 300 domestic and cleaning staff who were employed by the agency Sodexho , and worked in the NHS hospital. Trade publicationAnd a report in
references an “unofficial strike” involving around 500 clerical and administrative staff at at least five Glasgow hospitals in. This dispute reportedly resulted in severe disruption to “admissions, theatre schedules, clinic IT and the delivery of case notes”.report from the time these staff were directly employed by the NHS.
That Socialist Worker report also mentions another strike involving Sodexho workers at the Royal Liverpool Hospital inFull Fact has put these examples to Ms Kendall and the Labour party. We have yet to receive a response but will update this fact check if we do. We’ve also previously contacted Mr Streeting about his claim, but have received no response.
We could not find any examples of nationwide disputes involving NHS staff or staff working in NHS hospitals when Labour was last in power, and none of the examples mentioned above appear to involve clinical staff, as is the case with the
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