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Are you fed up with long hours, low pay, or workplace bullying?
UVW organises barristers, solicitors and paralegals across the legal sector, in law firms, chambers and public or private practices.
Many in the legal sector struggle with toxic work cultures, extreme workloads, poverty pay and a lack of representation, especially low-paid workers. Paralegals are often underpaid, with some relying on benefits to survive, while legal aid and local authority rates remain too low, deepening inequality across the sector.
But you don’t have to accept this and if you want to fight for better wages and conditions, join the UVW union today.
Through legal and industrial action, UVW has won big for our members in pay rises, by saving jobs, recovering stolen wages, winning compensation for injuries and discrimination and fighting unfair treatment and exploitation.
We were the first union in the UK to end outsourcing for cleaners in higher education and the NHS, bringing over 300 cleaners in-house at the London School of Economics and 1200 facilities workers at NHS Imperial Trust. These wins ended decades of institutional racism and put millions back in the pockets of workers – where it belongs!
“This initiative is long overdue. I was involved in an earlier effort in the 1970s which was far less ambitious and did not survive. This has the advantage of a far wider constituency of workers who are constantly at risk of exploitation and marginalisation despite their critical role. As Shelley put it, strength in numbers!”
Michael Mansfield QC
“I support the unionisation of all workers in all sectors. The inequalities in income and in terms and conditions in the legal world are notorious and I therefore support the initiative to form Legal Sector Workers United under the banner of United Voices of the World. I wish them luck.”
John Hendy QC
We are a community and a trade union of low-paid, migrant, marginalised and under-represented workers. We fight the bosses for dignity and respect through direct and legal action!
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07884 553443 (English)
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info@uvwunion.org.uk
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