VIDEO: Care UK protest
Strikers have staged a protest outside the officers of the private company which provides adult social care in Mansfield and Ashfield on behalf of the county council.
Striking members of the UNISON trade union staged the protest outside the offices of Care UK in Hamilton Way, Mansfield, on Tuesday 7th October.
The strikers told Chad they were protesting against staff pay rates and working conditions at the company - which is engaged by Nottinghamshire County Council to provide home care services.
They said that the ‘bitter dispute’ had arisen because former NHS staff had suffered a 35 per cent cut in pay following the privatisation of their learning disability service.