FIFTY-SIX women domestic workers at Hillingdon hospital in West London (right) are in the ninth month of their strike against private cleaning contractor Pall Mall Hotel Services.
Workers were offered £1,000 to sign new contracts with lower wages and reduced benefits.
The women refused, and despite only lack-lustre support from UNISON are still out.
Pall Mall, a subsidiary of Davis Services, openly flouts European legislation on the rights of public sector workers.
The company has bussed scabs in from as far as Newcastle to replace the Hillingdon women. In response the strikers have picketed the firm's Brixton head office and formed links with others in dispute, like the Liverpool dockers and JJ Fast Foods workers in Hackney.
The Health and Safety Executive has fined Hillingdon management for the appalling lack of cleanliness and hygiene in the hospital kitchens. Despite the apparently `David and Goliath' nature of the strike, Pall Mall is not having it all its own way.
Supporters are especially invited to the Friday pickets, 12 noon, Hillingdon hospital, Uxbridge.
