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The biggest single group of UVW members are cleaners, mostly migrant workers in London who have been leading our fight to push up wages and win dignity, equality and respect.
Hospitality workers in UVW won a huge pay rise of almost 25% for hundreds of waiting and kitchen staff at Harrods, London’s emblematic luxury department store. This established a new benchmark for pay in the sector.
Security guards face dangerous conditions, lack of sick pay and exploitation by outsourcing companies. In UVW, security guards are leading the fight for better wages and conditions.
UVW members in the violence against women and girls sector have won a landmark victory by stopping planned job cuts at Solace Women’s Aid that would have slashed their team by a third and endangered domestic abuse services in Tower Hamlets.
Not just barristers and solicitors, LSWU is also comprised of cleaners, secretaries, paralegals, caseworkers, intermediaries, clerks, support staff and legal executives. Join us to fight for justice in the justice system.
Workers across the creative industries are organising. The cultural sector is rife with individualism and competitiveness to the detriment of its workforce. DCW wants to see all cultural workers respected for the work they do.
UVW members, care, domestic and maintenance workers at Sage Nursing home in North London declared a huge victory after a protracted dispute over poverty pay and decent working conditions. Winning the London Living Wage, resulting in a minimum pay rise of 11% for some workers and a raise for all other staff.
UVW’s Section of Architectural Workers (SAW) is the first ever trade union to organise everyone in the architectural sector, including assistants, cleaners, students, admin staff, technicians, sole traders, and architects.
We are a group of childcare professionals who have each other’s backs. We are building resilience and workers’ power in an underfunded and under-appreciated industry and are determined to push back against employers who make nursery workers bear the brunt of this.
UVW members in retail have won key victories, including securing the London Living Wage at Chanel and overturning an unfair disciplinary dismissal, as well as a long-running campaign against Topshop that led to compensation, successful legal action and an emblematic fight against trade union victimisation.
Sex workers in UVW have won landmark legal victories including worker status for dancers in London and Edinburgh, forced Deliveroo to drop a discriminatory policy, secured compensation for sex workers and successfully challenged strip club closures in Bristol and Edinburgh.
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