Year: 2023
Tribunal refuses government’s request to intervene alongside Royal Parks in legal appeal against UVW’s race discrimination victory.
UVW’s landmark legal victory established that the charity’s policy to consciously choose to not pay their outsourced mainly BAME cleaners & attendants the London…
Numeracy workshop report: 100% success!
“The workshop was very helpful. The teacher really took us into numeracy and I brushed up my knowledge. I am looking for more!” UVW…
Paris in springtime
“If we don’t change things today, they will never change” A report on the explosive and historic mass mobilisation in France by UVW Executive…
GOSH cleaners make headlines in historic “institutional racism” court case
After a momentous ten-day tribunal hearing in early March, the brave cleaners and UVW members at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), suing their employer…
Join the strike wave at the UVW Striker’s Assembly in April
United Voices of the World (UVW) union is inviting members and supporters to participate in a Striker’s Assembly on Saturday 15 April. UVW is…
Saturday 15 April, 2023
UVW Strikers’ Assembly
Join the fight, share experiences and learn to organiseFrom 2pm on Saturday 15 April at Casa UVW, 140 Cambridge Heath Road London E1 5QJ…
UVW holds largest-ever AGM to celebrate year of strikes
In a beautiful display of Britain’s working class, some 200 migrant, precarious, Black and brown members came together for the United Voices of the…
Covid-19 public inquiry begins: UVW’s frontline migrant health workers will be heard!
After a successful appeal, UVW members will now give a first-hand account at the government’s public Covid-19 Inquiry of how they faced as low-wage,…
Veteran cleaner and strike leader fights trade union victimisation at London School of Economics
“This constant picking on me seemed to intensify after our successful strike against outsourcing. I suspect this repetitive singling out has to do far…
GOSH cleaners confront hospital in groundbreaking court case over ‘institutional racism’
“Although I am very nervous, I am standing up for my rights because we’ve been cheated for a very long time and this has…
GOSH cleaners confront hospital in ground-breaking court case over years of “institutional racism”
Today begins a momentous ten-day tribunal hearing where GOSH faces a first of a kind group claim for indirect race discrimination brought by 80…