UVW launches strike fund for workers in Myanmar resisting the coup
UVW has sent an open letter of solidarity to The Independent Federation of Myanmar Seafarers (IFOMs) and salutes its role in organising the civil…
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Key workers at a North London care home take legal action against their employer for breach of human rights.
14 care workers, cleaners and maintenance workers at Sage Nursing Home in North London are taking legal action against their employer for what they…
Catholic School cleaners to strike for 40 days and 40 nights in “righteous indignation” about “wage theft”, “poverty pay” & “institutional racism”
Outsourced cleaners at the La Retraite Roman Catholic School Girls’ School in South London have voted to take the first strike in the school’s…
“We’re one step closer to achieving a collective voice at work” declare key workers at North London care home as they head for a second round of strike action
Cleaners, care workers and maintenance workers will walk out this week in what their trade union, United Voices of the World (UVW), has described…
“There is a culture of discrimination” says trade union as it ballots school cleaners for strike action
Outsourced cleaners at La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls School in South London are being balloted for strike action today The ballot is in respect…
Care workers forced to abandon picket after government confusion over the legality of picketing in Tier 4 areas
Care workers and cleaners on strike today at Sage Nursing Home in North London were forced to abandon a planned picket after reading advice…
Care worker walkout is “historic turning point for key workers” says trade union in care home dispute
Care workers, cleaners and maintenance workers at Sage Nursing Home in Golders Green North London have today walked out in a 3-day strike in…
“Our courts are not Covid-secure” says Legal Sector Workers United as it calls for immediate halt to possession proceedings
Legal Sector Workers United (LSWU) along with housing practitioners and campaigners is calling for an immediate stay on possession proceedings during the second wave…
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…
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…
UVW Union vows to ballot cleaners to strike at world famous Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital
Cleaners at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital (GOSH) are to be balloted for strike action by their union UVW in a bid to become…
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…