The union had used the platform, now owned by the wealthiest man in the world, to raise tens of thousands of pounds to support the strikes of predominantly migrant cleaners.
Twitter deletes UVW account
Tag: United Voices of the World
“They don’t treat us cleaners like human beings, they treat us like rats”: Department of Education cleaners to strike
Exhausted cleaners struggling to pay for the basics of working at the Department for Education’s (DfE) Sanctuary Buildings are asking for a living wage, equal sick pay, annual leave with civil service workers, appropriate staffing levels, and union recognition.
UVW cleaners and NEU teachers in coordinated strike action
Negotiations have broken down and the cleaners will join forces with striking NEU teacher members on the 5 and 7 July.
Threat of strike action secures pay rise for cleaners at Mercedes Benz
Low-paid, outsourced, migrant workers at Mercedes Showroom in Colindale, London, have won a 25% pay increase after returning a strike mandate
Amazon cleaners to lead coordinated strike action
“We are all frustrated and we are overworked, our demands are just and fair. They don’t talk to us right, they talk to us like children.”
Condé Nast cleaners win 11% pay rise after strike threat
From now on, the cleaners will earn the London Living Wage (LLW) of £11.95 per hour, and the company has committed to automatically increasing this amount in line with the LLW every year.
[ID]: A photo of Adelphi Building, text reads: Conde Nast cleaners win 11% pay rise
Migrant cleaners win union recognition in defiance of Amazon
Migrant cleaners for the DBR1 Amazon warehouse in Dartford – who are outsourced to Phosters (FM) Limited, a Worcestershire-based facilities management company – will be the first workers on an Amazon site to win union recognition in the UK.
[ID: 2 men stand in front of a UVW banner. Text reads: Amazon workers on brink of union recognition]
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 of the charity have rejected attempts by the workers’ union, United Voices of the World (UVW) to negotiate with them, after the workers’ asked for union recognition and an end to
Victory for domestic and sexual abuse charity counsellors over ‘gig economy’
UVW members working as counsellors for Solace Women’s Aid won a legal battle over their employment status on Monday when a judge ruled that the charity had misclassified them as self-employed independent contractors when in reality they were workers, under s.230(3)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996. This false status meant they had no access
Judge orders Brighton pub to pay wages to sacked UVW strike leader until final hearing
Former bar manager at Stonegate-leased Brighton pub Saint James Tavern (SJT) and UVW member Jake Marvin applied to the Employment Tribunal in early July for interim relief following his summary sacking just days after the pub workers’ first picket line on June 25. The judge heard evidence that pub manager and UVW member Jake Marvin
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