Organising through Covid-19: An update from LSWU
An update from LSWU on conditions during Covid-19 and how members have responded: Hundreds of workers from across the country have joined Legal Sector…
Year: 2020
Wednesday, 5pm – 6pm, Saturday, 11:30AM – 12:30PM
English Class
We run a weekly group online English class for our members who want to improve their English listening, reading, and speaking skills in a fun and relaxed way.
13 Oct 2020, 7 PM – 9 PM
Eviction resistance training
Our brothers and sisters at the national tenants & community union Acorn have extended a special invitation to members of UVW to join their training on how to resist evictions in a Covid-compliant way...
Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital found in potential breach of race discrimination laws over the outsourcing of their mainly black and brown cleaners, claims union
Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital found in potential breach of race discrimination laws over the outsourcing of their mainly black and brown cleaners, claims…
Solidarity is on the rise as Barnet UNISON supports UVW care workers in their fight for equality
United Voices of the World members working as carers and cleaners at Sage nursing home in North London are engaged in a tense battle…
UVW member Cetin talks organising and the SGUL campaign at TWT 2020
On September 14, Cetin Avsar, a UVW member at St. George’s University of London (SGUL) spoke at the “Forging a fighting workers’ movement” panel…
Furlough Fightback rep training: UVW members are taking on the bosses!
On Wednesday 9 September, UVW ran its first rep training in its series of online trainings for the membership called the ‘Furlough Fightback’. Forty-three…
9 Sept 2020, 6 PM – 8 PM
Trade Union Rep Training
Being a good trade union rep is about so much more than just knowing the law. In fact, it often has very little to do with the law.
There’s power in the union: a single father’s fightback story
This week as millions of children walk back into school and parents all over the UK prepare for challenges that come next, one single parent is preparing to take…
Victory as UK’s ‘largest independent wholesaler of fruit and veg’ ordered to reinstate warehouse worker found to have been sacked for complaining about lack of PPE
PRESS RELEASE 19/08/2020For immediate release Victory as the UK’s ‘largest independent wholesaler of fruit and veg’ ordered by a judge to reinstate a warehouse…
“Well if they can do it, I can do it”: An interview with Filmmaker Hazel Falck
IN FOCUS: Hazel Falck is the director of the ground breaking Guardian documentary covering the St. Mary’s campaign that saw UVW members go on longest strikes…
“Thanks for the claps, but we’re still paid poverty wages” – UVW care home members take a stand
Carers and cleaners at a nursing home in Golders Green say clapping is not enough and neither is the £8.72 and £9.10 per hour…