BREAKING: Architectural workers are walking out over COVID-19 safety concerns
This morning several members of the United Voces of the World (UVW) Section of Architectural Workers (SAW) group exercised their individual legal rights under…
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UVW’s 2020 Round up
2020 was a big year for UVW. In the face of a deadly pandemic threatening the lives and livelihoods of our members, families and…
UVW IS HIRING: 2 x EMPLOYMENT LAW CASEWORKERS
We are pleased to announce two vacancies for between 3-4 days a week each. We are seeking to recruit 1 x caseworker and 1…
Cleaner’s union UVW forces Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital to end outsourcing and bring hundreds of outsourced workers into the direct employment of the NHS
Hundreds of cleaners outsourced to the multinational contractor OCS at the world renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) will be made NHS…
“They don’t care about us, They really don’t care about us in this place”, listen to Eveline’s story
Meet Eveline, a cleaner at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), who along with over a hundred of her colleagues, nearly all of whom are…
Key workers at care home in North London have “been left with no choice but to strike” says UVW after negotiations undermined
Care workers and cleaners at Sage nursing home in North London have called for an end to poverty wages, and parity with NHS sick…
“I was begging for just one day, but she [my manager] denied me my right to go and see my sister when she was dying. I never got to see her before she died”, suffering in silence at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Memuna Kabia has lived in London for 21 years, she has two children and has been working at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for…
“There is a big difference in terms of the respect that each employee gets in the same workplace”, listen to Alpha’s story
Meet Alpha, a cleaner at the world leading Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), Alpha has worked at GOSH for almost 5 years. Like the…
Charity worker wins full compensation in disability discrimination settlement
A United Voices of the World (UVW) member, Zara*, recently settled an Employment Tribunal case out of court for over £20,000. Zara worked at…
The government announces the lifting of national lockdown restrictions for the 2nd December
Today the government announced national lockdown restrictions will be lifted on the 2nd of December and that England will return to a 3-tiered regional…
Security guard seeks ‘groundbreaking’ injunction to stop his ‘unlawful’ sacking in what his union UVW describes as the first case of its kind for a low paid worker
On Tuesday 24th November in an injunction hearing will be heard in London to determine whether security contractor Wilson James should be forced to…
Security guard & union activist suspended by outsourcing firm Wilson James because of his and his union’s belief that ‘outsourcing is discriminatory’
Union activist Mr Cetin Avsar has been suspended by outsourcing firm Wilson James because he led a strike at his former job at St…