Cleaners, security guards and porters at the Ministry of Justice celebrated victory today after they voted 70% in favour of trade union recognition…
Ministry of Justice’s outsourced workers win vote for trade union recognition
Tag: UVW
Sex workers are under attack– feminists everywhere need to support us
It was the day after International Women’s Day and I was tired, obviously, but also feeling good about pulling off another strike for the 3rd yea…
Strip club dancers celebrate after employment tribunal victory
Strippers union UVW and sex worker advocacy group Decrim Now are celebrating after a judge at an employment tribunal ruled that dancers in London s…
Met police threaten to arrest entire UVW strike picket (again!)
For the second day in a row, officers from the Met threatened to arrest all those participating in a United Voices of the World (UVW) strike picket…
Spook your bosses: A Halloween report from the cleaners’ picket line
One day, five strikes and seven pickets — our man on the ground reports cleaners have been frightening the great and the good with demands for be…
Unions hit targets across London in co-ordinated strikes
Hundreds of mostly migrant workers were involved in the actions, which saw The IWGB and UVW unions lead walkouts and rallies alongside RMT and PCS.
Rattling cages: rise of the United Voices of the World
In early August 2018 cleaners at the Ministry of Justice and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea started a coordinated three-day strike.
BREAKING: following strike action cleaners organised in UVW win London Living Wage
UVW members at The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall win the London Living Wage (LLW) after three days of unprecedented coordinated…
Cleaners organised in UVW launch three simultaneous migrant workers strikes across London
Cleaners organised in the United Voices of the World (UVW) trade union are walking out over pay and unfair working conditions at three of the wealt…
Cleaners’ Living Wage strike threat takes just 30 hours to beat City bosses
The Bank of New York Mellon have given in to the pay demand from Latin American cleaners after a formal claim declaring potential strike action was…
Amid TUC decline, Britain’s radical unions grow
The Trades Union Congress is facing a decline in membership that many within the organisation are recognising as a crisis.
Harrods union workers win tips fight!
After a month-long campaign, the 483 porters, waiters and chefs who work in Harrods’ restaurants and catering services have been told they wi…
Harrods tip demo: Up to six arrests as police defend posh store
Six people were arrested on January 7th after police piled in to protect posh department store Harrods from its own staff and their supporters — …
Protest to take on tip-stealers Harrods: Jan 7th
Union activists and supporters of restaurant staff at Knightbridge department store Harrods will be demanding that its grasping owners show some r…
The current crisis and the rise of the Corbyn dogma
A few days ago Freedom published an article called, “The End of Dogma #keepcorbyn as a Transitional Demand.”
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