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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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…
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…
Major London law firm Vardags loses High Court battle to ‘gag’ former employee in ‘tacky or tarty’ dress code row
Trade union United Voices of the World (UVW) has declared victory following its member’s successful “High Court showdown” over an attempt by one of the country's top divorce law firms to “gag” a former employee accused of leaking a memo in which female staff were reminded that they could dress ‘discreetly sexy’, but ‘never tarty'.
Organising through Covid-19: An update from LSWU
An update from LSWU on conditions during Covid-19 and how members have responded: Hundreds of workers from across the country have joined Legal Sector…
Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital found in potential breach of race discrimination laws over the outsourcing of their mainly black and brown cleaners, claims union
Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital found in potential breach of race discrimination laws over the outsourcing of their mainly black and brown cleaners, claims…
Victory as UK’s ‘largest independent wholesaler of fruit and veg’ ordered to reinstate warehouse worker found to have been sacked for complaining about lack of PPE
PRESS RELEASE 19/08/2020For immediate release Victory as the UK’s ‘largest independent wholesaler of fruit and veg’ ordered by a judge to reinstate a warehouse…
Ministry of Justice’s cleaners, security guards and porters win vote for trade union recognition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE30/07/2020 Ministry of Justice’s cleaners, security guards and porters win vote for trade union recognition Ministry of Justice (MoJ) cleaners, security guards…
“Stop the Met’s criminalisation of strikes” says barrister in legal challenge to Metropolitan Police
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE27/07/2020 “Stop the Met’s criminalisation of strikes” says barrister in legal challenge to Metropolitan Police Trade union United Voices of the World…
St. George’s security guards win full pay sick pay but vow to “fight on for full equality”
IMMEDIATE RELEASE22/07/2020 St. George’s security guards win full pay sick pay but vow to “fight on for full equality” Outsourced security guards at St.…