Amazon cleaners one step closer to historic union recognition win
Amazon cleaners one step closer to historic union recognition win Cleaners for the DBR1 Amazon warehouse in Dartford – who are outsourced to Phosters…
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International Workers’ Day to see mass strike ballots open for cleaners, carers and concierges
United Voices of the World (UVW) union is to open ballots for workers across seven workplaces on 1 May, after a unanimous vote at…
Tribunal refuses government’s request to intervene alongside Royal Parks in legal appeal against UVW’s race discrimination victory.
UVW’s landmark legal victory established that the charity’s policy to consciously choose to not pay their outsourced mainly BAME cleaners & attendants the London…
GOSH cleaners confront hospital in ground-breaking court case over years of “institutional racism”
Today begins a momentous ten-day tribunal hearing where GOSH faces a first of a kind group claim for indirect race discrimination brought by 80…
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…
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…
“We are going to fight again, for what is right.” Care home workers set to strike in the new year due to Cost of Living crisis
Today, UVW members at Sage Nursing home in North London have instructed their union to inform Trustees – one of whom is a billionaire…
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, 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…
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…
Judge orders Brighton pub to pay wages to summarily sacked UVW strike leader until final hearing
Judge orders Saint James Tavern (SJT) pub bosses in Brighton to pay wages to a United Voices of the World (UVW) strike leader, who…
Sex workers trade union wins right to enter Judicial Review to oppose strip club ban in edinburgh
United Sex Workers (USW), the sex workers branch of United Voices of the World Union (UVW), has won the right to enter a Judicial…