Scottish Hospital Workers on Strike
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EDINBURGH, Scotland — About 1,000 workers at 20 National Health Service hospitals walked off the job Thursday to protest a government plan to turn over cleaning and catering services to private companies.
Patient care was not affected by the walkout, which union leaders said would last at least 24 hours, according to Ernest McCormick, a spokesman for the Lothian Health Board.
The board, the third largest in Britain, is responsible for 37 health service hospitals in Edinburgh and Lothian County and employs 22,000 people, half of them nurses.
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