Compass expects to profit from new outsourcing boom - workers strike back next week‏

In a cosy Daily Mail interview Richard Cousins - the £3.4million pound a year CEO of compass - sporting a black eye from an overhanging branch and not from one of the many underpaid Compass workers - described their 'fresh and simple' approach to world leadership in Soft Facilities services. The company has now burst through the £1 Billion profit target and is expecting even more profit from the outsourcing boom: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1346544/INTERVIEW-The-man-pointing-Compass-right-direction.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

This will be no comfort to those hundreds of workers employed by Compass at Southampton and Buckinghamshire Hospitals.

In Bucks the average wage amounts to only £20 a week above benefit levels and if they are off sick they dip below it. In Southampton - where all but 2 of the 250 domestic staff employed by Compass have now joined the union - Compass Medirest is refusing to pay for flu jabs for their workers in the hospital.

Nothing 'fresh and simple' about that approach Richard. Exploitation is a better description.

The General Secretary Dave Prentis will be attending a rally in High Wycombe at 1pm by the Guild Hall or join the pickets at the High Wycombe hospital gates at 12.30 to march through to the hall.