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The battle for the soul of the NHS is hotting up this week with another strike planned among NHS Logistics workers. Bridget Carter reports.
WORKERS AT NHS Logistics were due to stage their second 24-hour strike this week as part of a protest against the government's decision to contract out its logistics operation to German firm DHL.
The union Unison warns that more strikes are on the cards unless the government promises to protect workers' pay and conditions when the logistics contract transfers to DHL on 1 October.
Unison spokeswoman Anne Mitchell says 800 union members at depots in Cheshire, Kent, Derbyshire, Sussex and West Yorkshire...