Sat 18 May 2024, 12pm-4:30pm
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Cleaners at private school in South London to strike over poverty pay
The cleaners at Blackheath Prep today returned a unanimous yes vote to take strike action for improved terms and conditions at the private school…
Amazon cleaners indignant as global companies save pennies off their sweat
Minimum wage cleaners at Amazon warehouses in Enfield and Ipswich are set to ballot for strike action over attempts to cut their paid breaks…
“They don’t treat us cleaners like human beings, they treat us like rats”: Cleaners at the Department of Education poised to strike for a living wage
Exhausted cleaners, struggling to pay for the basics, working at the Department for Education (DfE)’s Sanctuary Buildings are asking to be paid a living…
“They don’t treat us cleaners like human beings, they treat us like rats”: Cleaners at the Department of Education poised to strike for a living wage
Exhausted cleaners, struggling to pay for the basics, working at the Department for Education (DfE)’s Sanctuary Buildings are asking to be paid a living…
UVW union launches legal action against UK fruit farm over exploitation of seasonal Latin American workers
United Voices of the World (UVW) commences tribunal proceedings after a group of migrant seasonal workers from Latin America recruited from Chile contacted the…
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…
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…
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…
Thursday 9 February, 2023, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Hear international domestic workers stories of struggle
On Thursday 9 February UVW will be hosting representatives of women-led unions representing domestic workers in India and the Dominican Republic. We are united…
Free numeracy courses for UVW members
UVW is launching a project to develop numeracy skills for migrant, low-paid and precarious workers. In collaboration with City Lit Europe’s largest centre for…
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…