‘London United’

Striking hospital workers, cabin crew and Bank of England staff will be coming together for a series of protests in London tomorrow (August 3) to highlight their fight for better pay.

The Unite members from Barts Health NHS Trust, British Airways mixed fleet and the Bank of England, who are all separately taking industrial action, will be coming together under the banner of ‘London United’ in a show of solidarity.

The ‘hat-trick’ of protests starts at 8am outside JP Morgan where Serco will present its half year results to investors. For more, see here.

Unite members employed by Serco as domestic staff, porters and security workers at Barts Health NHS Trust are battling for a 30 pence an hour increase. The workers are currently taking part in a 14-day strike that started on 25 July. It follows an earlier 48 hour stoppage and seven day walkout in July.

Workers will then move on to the Civil Aviation Authority for a protest at 11:00 over the approval for British Airways to ‘wet lease’ nine Qatar Airways’ aircraft to cover striking cabin crew on British Airways’ mixed fleet.

Unite argues that the approval breaks regulations covering the wet leasing of aircraft. Unite cabin crew members working for British Airways will be taking their 58th day of strike action tomorrow in their fight against poverty pay and the sanctioning of striking cabin crew. For more information on the British Airways dispute please see here.

The protests conclude at 13:00 with a rally outside the Bank of England, where workers are striking for the first time in 50 years. The dispute centres on the imposition of a derisory below inflation pay offer and the refusal of management to engage in meaningful negotiations with Unite over the pay deal for the second year running. Tomorrow sees the final day of a three day strike by workers in maintenance, parlours and security departments. For more information on this dispute, see here.

Full details of tomorrow’s protests are as follows:

8am – Secro shareholder meeting, JP Morgan, 60 Victoria, EC4Y 0JP.

11am – Civil Aviation Authority, 45-59 Kingsway, WC2B 6TE.

1pm – Rally at the Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, EC2R 8AH.