Cleaners and facilities workers united to defend our rights, support one another and build power together. Join UVW today.
You Deserve Dignity, Respect and Equality
Are you overworked, underpaid, and undervalued? Are you struggling to make ends meet with low pay and no sick pay? Do you want to build collective strength to have a say in your workplace?
Cleaners, security guards, and other facility workers keep London running every day. Yet many workers do no receive the acknowledgement they deserve for the essential work they do.
But when we organise together, we are powerful.
Together, we can win!
Cleaners and facility workers in the public and private sector have taken on major corporations, universities, museums and contractors and won. Through strike and legal action, UVW member have won pay raises wages, full sick pay, recovered stolen wages, received compensation for workplace injuries, and much more.
Ending Institutional Racism
UVW is at the forefront of the fight against outsourcing—a racist, two-tier system that relies heavily on low-paid Black, brown and migrant workers. Outsourced workers are routinely denied the pay, rights and conditions of their directly employed colleagues.
Through strikes, legal action and collective organising, UVW members are fighting back and winning. We have won equal pay and rights for cleaners across workplaces from the London School of Economics to Great Ormond Street Hospital. We demand full equality, insourcing and an end to outsourcing across the public and private sectors.
Read about UVW’s historic and ongoing fights against outsourcing here.
As a member you will:
- Organise for better pay and conditions
- Get workplace advice, representation and legal support
- Challenge unpaid wages and unfair treatment
- Access meetings, workshops, events and training
- Build confidence and leadership skills
- Join a community of migrant and outsourced workers fighting for change
UVW is built by workers like you. Join us and organise for dignity, equality and respect at work.