26.06.2015 Sotheby's

Art F City writes about UVW protest at Sotheby's

Art F City is an online magazine, which creates and archives critical discourse, and commissions ambitious artist projects. Through a daily mix of blunt criticism, commentary and community-minded journalism, we add an unparalleled dosage of purposeful opinion to the contemporary art community.They wrote a great article about the Sotheby's campaign urging their readers to come to our protest next Wednesday. Here is what they wrote about us.

23.06.2015

Campaign launch at Debenhams

BREAKING NEWS: UVW have written to Debenhams, the multinational retailer, to demand the London Living Wage for our trade union members at the Flagship store in Oxford Street. 

21.06.2015

Marching against Austerity

As the new government gets set to push through ever harsher austerity policies, we need to be united in our response. Enough is enough.  250,000 people marched agains austerity on Saturday.  We were part of it.

09.06.2015

Painting of UVW Protest

Check out this absolutely amazing painting of one of UVW's protests at the Brabican Centre where we were fighting for the Living Wage, sick pay and an end to union busting

06.06.2015

Victory In Court

We successfully settled two Employment Tribunal claims for unfair dismissal and trade union victimisation in the last two days against two very big cleaning…

01.06.2015

UVW Successfully Fights Wage Theft

On the 1st June 2015 UVW once again successfully reclaimed over 2 months worth of wages which were unlawfully deducted from our trade union…

31.05.2015

Report from UVW’s Meeting

What a fantastic, inspiring and extremely well attended union meeting yesterday, despite being a sunny, Saturday afternoon. Big thank you to Sandy Nicholl, SOAS…

24.05.2015 Barbican

Barbican Occupation in the Press

The newspaper the Islington Tribune reports on our, supported by PWB and OSEA, recent occupation/protest at the Barbican. A spokesman from the Corporation of…

14.05.2015 Barbican

We are all Albeiro

This morning we are representing our trade union member, President of UVW, and employee of MITIE at the Barbican Centre. He has been accused…

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