Save ASIRT: Solidarity on the picket line
“We’ve been on the #saveASIRT picket to fight for our own jobs but, more importantly, to fight for our service users. When migrant families…
Year: 2022
21 December 2022, 8.30 – 11am
Join the xmas picket!
Our fight to keep providing vital services to the migrant and refugee communities in Birmingham and for a voice at work has come to…
Going home for Christmas: Don’t let them stop you!
“My supervisor told me: ‘We all lie to get out of here’. That was what hurt me most. My mum was dying and I…
Migrant cleaners at Mercedes-Benz luxury car showroom to ballot for strike action over poverty wages
“It’s £13 an hour or strike! There’s no other option for us because the current situation is so dire and the cost of living…
Migrant cleaners at Mercedes-Benz showroom to ballot for strike action over poverty wages
The cleaners only receive £10 an hour, a meagre 50p above the minimum wage, and 90p below the recommended UK Living Wage of £10.90…
SATURDAY 17 DECEMBER 2022, 9am-2pm
INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS DAY
17 December 2022 – International Migrants Day – Join the march! UVW joins other unions and the coalition of Latin American Organisations UK, to…
Charity workers in Birmingham to strike in December
Workers at the ASIRT charity in Birmingham have announced they will take strike action on 21 December in response to a range of issues…
#SaveASIRT: Charity workers in Birmingham to strike in December
“Undocumented people across the West Midlands, who use and need this legal support service, have been entirely disregarded by trustees… We are striking in…
Sage care workers are back!
“Our job is physical, psychological, and social, and we bring a unique service, so we demand that they respect us and value us as…
“We are going to fight again, for what is right.” Care home workers set to strike in the new year due to Cost of Living crisis
Today, UVW members at Sage Nursing home in North London have instructed their union to inform Trustees – one of whom is a billionaire…
#SaveASIRT: Immigration legal support charity threatened with closure
“We are concerned that closing the organisation is a bid to avoid accountability.” Eve Phillips, an immigration caseworker for ASIRT and UVW member A…
Save ASIRT: Asylum seeker legal support charity threatened with closure
A charity who provides free legal advice to asylum seekers in Birmingham and the West Midlands is closing down, despite being financially healthy. Trustees…