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…
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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…
#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…
Domestic and sexual abuse charity counsellors are workers, judge rules
“I am deeply grateful to my peers for sticking together and pursuing this claim, and for the enormous work that UVW has undertaken to…
Domestic and sexual abuse charity counsellors are workers, rules judge in ‘gig economy’ blow
UVW members working as counsellors for Solace Women’s Aid won a legal battle over their employment status yesterday when a judge ruled that the…
Judge orders Union-busting pizza chain to keep paying sacked UVW member
“I am very happy. This win is a good indication that my dismissal by Pizza Pilgrims will be found to be unfair when we…
Union-busting pizza chain ordered to put waiter back on payroll, judge rules
A judge has ordered London’s Pizza Pilgrims (PP) restaurant chain to put a waiter and United Voices of the World (UVW) member back on…
Sex Workers win right to enter Judicial Review to oppose Edinburgh strip club ban
United Sex Workers (USW), the sex workers branch of United Voices of the World Union (UVW), has won the right to enter a Judicial…
UVW reps, building workers’ power at GOSH
At the end of July, United Voices of the World (UVW) members at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) elected workplace representatives (reps) for the…
Architectural workers initiate historic strike ballot
“We have all worked at Atomik for a number of years, but that loyalty has not been reciprocated in meaningful improved pay or working…