Migrant cleaners at Mercedes-Benz luxury car showroom win 19.5% pay rise
“We were not asking for anything extraordinary, we were asking for a very reasonable increase, affordable and fair.” José, cleaner and UVW member. Migrant…
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The new national minimum wage of £10.42 per hour is still not enough!
The national minimum wage has gone up to £10.42 per hour since April 1 2023, but it’s still not enough! £10.42 is the absolute…
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…
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…
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…