Dear supporters, 

It’s been six weeks since my colleagues and I, the security guards at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), begun this strike for equality, and it’s time to pile on the pressure. 

Last week our co-workers, the GOSH cleaners, won full NHS terms and conditions from 1 April.  They are no longer outsourced and they have the same pensions, holidays and sick pay as anyone else in the hospital... except for us.   

It’s a great victory for the cleaners, our union, United Voices of the World, and every outsourced worker out there. It shows that the racist discrimination and inequality, which results from outsourcing, can end if the will exists.  

If GOSH can do it for over 300 cleaners surely it can do it for 33 security guards! We deserve the same treatment, dignity and respect. 

Read the testimony of my colleague Mimy Longagu the only other female security guard at GOSH and, like me, on strike. We are fighting for “basic” rights that others just take for granted.  

Help us reach out to the GOSH Trustees so they can’t keep ignoring us.  

Please write to the GOSH Trustees to make them do the right thing, All you need to do is add your details to this model letter and click send >>   

You can keep donating to our strike fund to keep us going for as long as possible >>

Thank you so much for all your support so far.   

With love and solidarity,  
Erica