CAIWU
@caiwuunion.bsky.social
The Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU) is a worker-led trade union. We represent cleaners across Britain. #Justice4Cleaners✊
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BREAKING 🚨 | 30 trade unions have written to Hull Trains warning their actions could damage safety culture across the rail industry.
Our movement is united in rejecting attacks on union members.
We stand with all @aslefunion.bsky.social members.
Read & share the letter👇
#StrikeMap
Our movement is united in rejecting attacks on union members.
We stand with all @aslefunion.bsky.social members.
Read & share the letter👇
#StrikeMap
August 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM
BREAKING 🚨 | 30 trade unions have written to Hull Trains warning their actions could damage safety culture across the rail industry.
Our movement is united in rejecting attacks on union members.
We stand with all @aslefunion.bsky.social members.
Read & share the letter👇
#StrikeMap
Our movement is united in rejecting attacks on union members.
We stand with all @aslefunion.bsky.social members.
Read & share the letter👇
#StrikeMap
July 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Solidarity with brum bin strikers ✊
🎯You've done it.
2,000 pin badges, £2,000. Delivered to the picket line this morning.
#Solidarity with every #BrumBinStriker. This dispute needs the support of our whole movement.
Visit a picket via our map strikemap.org
#StrikeMap #BirminghamBinStrikers
2,000 pin badges, £2,000. Delivered to the picket line this morning.
#Solidarity with every #BrumBinStriker. This dispute needs the support of our whole movement.
Visit a picket via our map strikemap.org
#StrikeMap #BirminghamBinStrikers
April 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Solidarity with brum bin strikers ✊
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🎯You've done it.
2,000 pin badges, £2,000. Delivered to the picket line this morning.
#Solidarity with every #BrumBinStriker. This dispute needs the support of our whole movement.
Visit a picket via our map strikemap.org
#StrikeMap #BirminghamBinStrikers
2,000 pin badges, £2,000. Delivered to the picket line this morning.
#Solidarity with every #BrumBinStriker. This dispute needs the support of our whole movement.
Visit a picket via our map strikemap.org
#StrikeMap #BirminghamBinStrikers
April 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🎯You've done it.
2,000 pin badges, £2,000. Delivered to the picket line this morning.
#Solidarity with every #BrumBinStriker. This dispute needs the support of our whole movement.
Visit a picket via our map strikemap.org
#StrikeMap #BirminghamBinStrikers
2,000 pin badges, £2,000. Delivered to the picket line this morning.
#Solidarity with every #BrumBinStriker. This dispute needs the support of our whole movement.
Visit a picket via our map strikemap.org
#StrikeMap #BirminghamBinStrikers
Day 1 ✅
Thanks to everyone that came to show their solidarity. We go again tomorrow ✊
Support the strike: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/old-bailey
Thanks to everyone that came to show their solidarity. We go again tomorrow ✊
Support the strike: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/old-bailey
March 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Day 1 ✅
Thanks to everyone that came to show their solidarity. We go again tomorrow ✊
Support the strike: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/old-bailey
Thanks to everyone that came to show their solidarity. We go again tomorrow ✊
Support the strike: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/old-bailey
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CAIWU Escalates Strike Action to Full Week in Response to Outsourcing Betrayal
Cleaners at the Old Bailey, represented by the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU), are escalating their fight against the City of London Corporation’s outsourcing plans by launching a full week of…
Cleaners at the Old Bailey, represented by the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU), are escalating their fight against the City of London Corporation’s outsourcing plans by launching a full week of…
CAIWU Escalates Strike Action to Full Week in Response to Outsourcing Betrayal
Cleaners at the Old Bailey, represented by the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU), are escalating their fight against the City of London Corporation’s outsourcing plans by launching a full week of strike action from March 24th to March 28th. This marks a significant intensification of their protest, following an initial one-day strike on 7th March 2025 – supported by the RMT Union, PCS Union and General Federation of Trade Unions – as workers refuse to stand by while their rights and livelihoods are threatened.
labourhub.org.uk
March 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
CAIWU Escalates Strike Action to Full Week in Response to Outsourcing Betrayal
Cleaners at the Old Bailey, represented by the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU), are escalating their fight against the City of London Corporation’s outsourcing plans by launching a full week of…
Cleaners at the Old Bailey, represented by the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU), are escalating their fight against the City of London Corporation’s outsourcing plans by launching a full week of…
We’re out here today to show the City of London, to show OCS that they’ve got a problem. You’re not getting your buildings cleaned today, or tomorrow or the next day. You can clean your own rubbish, the cleaners are on strike’.
#endoutsourcing
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
#endoutsourcing
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
March 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We’re out here today to show the City of London, to show OCS that they’ve got a problem. You’re not getting your buildings cleaned today, or tomorrow or the next day. You can clean your own rubbish, the cleaners are on strike’.
#endoutsourcing
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
#endoutsourcing
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Donate to the Old Bailey cleaners’ strike fund to help ensure their sustained action against outsourcing in the public sector 👇
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/old-bailey/
Let’s send a message to the City of London and the govt: workers are fighting back against privatisation.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/old-bailey/
Let’s send a message to the City of London and the govt: workers are fighting back against privatisation.
March 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Donate to the Old Bailey cleaners’ strike fund to help ensure their sustained action against outsourcing in the public sector 👇
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/old-bailey/
Let’s send a message to the City of London and the govt: workers are fighting back against privatisation.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/old-bailey/
Let’s send a message to the City of London and the govt: workers are fighting back against privatisation.
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Respect to you @caiwuunion.bsky.social . Great to see your brave cleaners today standing up against outsourcing at the Old Bailey. Thank you 🙏 for defending workers' rights for us all. City of London stop the unjust contract transfer.
March 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Respect to you @caiwuunion.bsky.social . Great to see your brave cleaners today standing up against outsourcing at the Old Bailey. Thank you 🙏 for defending workers' rights for us all. City of London stop the unjust contract transfer.
Old Bailey cleaners on why they're taking strike action this Friday.
'Staff are not commodities. We are all human beings, we all have feelings'.
Join the picket:
📅 Friday 7 March
📍Old Bailey, EC4M 7EH
⏰ 8am-4pm with a 1pm rally
'Staff are not commodities. We are all human beings, we all have feelings'.
Join the picket:
📅 Friday 7 March
📍Old Bailey, EC4M 7EH
⏰ 8am-4pm with a 1pm rally
March 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Old Bailey cleaners on why they're taking strike action this Friday.
'Staff are not commodities. We are all human beings, we all have feelings'.
Join the picket:
📅 Friday 7 March
📍Old Bailey, EC4M 7EH
⏰ 8am-4pm with a 1pm rally
'Staff are not commodities. We are all human beings, we all have feelings'.
Join the picket:
📅 Friday 7 March
📍Old Bailey, EC4M 7EH
⏰ 8am-4pm with a 1pm rally
⚡️STRIKE AT THE OLD BAILEY 🪧
Our members are taking strike action in response to the City of London Corporation’s plans to outsource their jobs.
Join the picket line to show your support 👇
📆 Friday 7 March
📍Old Bailey, EC4M 7EH
⏰ 8am-4pm with a 1pm rally
Our members are taking strike action in response to the City of London Corporation’s plans to outsource their jobs.
Join the picket line to show your support 👇
📆 Friday 7 March
📍Old Bailey, EC4M 7EH
⏰ 8am-4pm with a 1pm rally
March 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
⚡️STRIKE AT THE OLD BAILEY 🪧
Our members are taking strike action in response to the City of London Corporation’s plans to outsource their jobs.
Join the picket line to show your support 👇
📆 Friday 7 March
📍Old Bailey, EC4M 7EH
⏰ 8am-4pm with a 1pm rally
Our members are taking strike action in response to the City of London Corporation’s plans to outsource their jobs.
Join the picket line to show your support 👇
📆 Friday 7 March
📍Old Bailey, EC4M 7EH
⏰ 8am-4pm with a 1pm rally
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Via StrikeMap: Cleaners at The Old Bailey, members of the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU), have voted overwhelmingly to strike, "with an 86% turnout and a 100% YES vote" say organisers.
"They’re fighting back against The City of London’s plans to outsource their jobs." (1/2)
"They’re fighting back against The City of London’s plans to outsource their jobs." (1/2)
March 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Via StrikeMap: Cleaners at The Old Bailey, members of the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU), have voted overwhelmingly to strike, "with an 86% turnout and a 100% YES vote" say organisers.
"They’re fighting back against The City of London’s plans to outsource their jobs." (1/2)
"They’re fighting back against The City of London’s plans to outsource their jobs." (1/2)
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
With a turnout of 86% and a 100% YES vote, cleaners at Old Bailey are going on strike 🪧
Our members are fighting against the City of London’s reckless outsourcing plans.
🗓️ 7 March 2025, coinciding with #IWD2025
👀 Picket details soon - watch this space.
With a turnout of 86% and a 100% YES vote, cleaners at Old Bailey are going on strike 🪧
Our members are fighting against the City of London’s reckless outsourcing plans.
🗓️ 7 March 2025, coinciding with #IWD2025
👀 Picket details soon - watch this space.
February 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
With a turnout of 86% and a 100% YES vote, cleaners at Old Bailey are going on strike 🪧
Our members are fighting against the City of London’s reckless outsourcing plans.
🗓️ 7 March 2025, coinciding with #IWD2025
👀 Picket details soon - watch this space.
With a turnout of 86% and a 100% YES vote, cleaners at Old Bailey are going on strike 🪧
Our members are fighting against the City of London’s reckless outsourcing plans.
🗓️ 7 March 2025, coinciding with #IWD2025
👀 Picket details soon - watch this space.
Old Bailey cleaners are ready to take strike action against outsourcing by the City of London ✊
February 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Old Bailey cleaners are ready to take strike action against outsourcing by the City of London ✊
BREAKING 🚨
City of London are refusing to let our representatives onsite at the Old Bailey, citing that we are not a recognised union in the corporation.
Employees have a right to representation of their choice and that right is being denied.
Shame. #justiceforcleaners
City of London are refusing to let our representatives onsite at the Old Bailey, citing that we are not a recognised union in the corporation.
Employees have a right to representation of their choice and that right is being denied.
Shame. #justiceforcleaners
🗳️STRIKE BALLOT 🪧
Due to lack of adequate response from the City of London, our members are now balloting to take industrial action against outsourcing plans.
Express your support here 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/just...
Due to lack of adequate response from the City of London, our members are now balloting to take industrial action against outsourcing plans.
Express your support here 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/just...
No Outsourcing at the Old Bailey
Write to demand CAIWU members are kept in-house at Old Bailey Criminal Court!
We know outsourcing leads to worse working conditions, intensification of labour and insecurity. Write to the CEO of the ...
actionnetwork.org
February 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
BREAKING 🚨
City of London are refusing to let our representatives onsite at the Old Bailey, citing that we are not a recognised union in the corporation.
Employees have a right to representation of their choice and that right is being denied.
Shame. #justiceforcleaners
City of London are refusing to let our representatives onsite at the Old Bailey, citing that we are not a recognised union in the corporation.
Employees have a right to representation of their choice and that right is being denied.
Shame. #justiceforcleaners
🗳️STRIKE BALLOT 🪧
Due to lack of adequate response from the City of London, our members are now balloting to take industrial action against outsourcing plans.
Express your support here 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/just...
Due to lack of adequate response from the City of London, our members are now balloting to take industrial action against outsourcing plans.
Express your support here 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/just...
No Outsourcing at the Old Bailey
Write to demand CAIWU members are kept in-house at Old Bailey Criminal Court!
We know outsourcing leads to worse working conditions, intensification of labour and insecurity. Write to the CEO of the ...
actionnetwork.org
February 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🗳️STRIKE BALLOT 🪧
Due to lack of adequate response from the City of London, our members are now balloting to take industrial action against outsourcing plans.
Express your support here 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/just...
Due to lack of adequate response from the City of London, our members are now balloting to take industrial action against outsourcing plans.
Express your support here 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/just...
Solidarity with PCS members at HMRC who are out demanding an end to trade union victimisation. ✊
In 2024, 3 union reps were sacked following the successful organisation of strike action — but PCS members are fighting for their reinstatement. 🚩
#justiceforworkers
In 2024, 3 union reps were sacked following the successful organisation of strike action — but PCS members are fighting for their reinstatement. 🚩
#justiceforworkers
February 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Solidarity with PCS members at HMRC who are out demanding an end to trade union victimisation. ✊
In 2024, 3 union reps were sacked following the successful organisation of strike action — but PCS members are fighting for their reinstatement. 🚩
#justiceforworkers
In 2024, 3 union reps were sacked following the successful organisation of strike action — but PCS members are fighting for their reinstatement. 🚩
#justiceforworkers
CAIWU is looking for a talented and dedicated caseworker to join our team. ✍️
Are you a legal professional dedicated to the trade union movement? We want to hear from you. 🫵
⏰ Deadline: 28 Feb
📄 Find out more: caiwu.org.uk/blank-1
Are you a legal professional dedicated to the trade union movement? We want to hear from you. 🫵
⏰ Deadline: 28 Feb
📄 Find out more: caiwu.org.uk/blank-1
January 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
CAIWU is looking for a talented and dedicated caseworker to join our team. ✍️
Are you a legal professional dedicated to the trade union movement? We want to hear from you. 🫵
⏰ Deadline: 28 Feb
📄 Find out more: caiwu.org.uk/blank-1
Are you a legal professional dedicated to the trade union movement? We want to hear from you. 🫵
⏰ Deadline: 28 Feb
📄 Find out more: caiwu.org.uk/blank-1
🚨 KEEP OLD BAILEY CLEANERS IN-HOUSE 🚨
Our members at the criminal court are soon to be outsourced — facing lower wages, intensified work and insecurity.
Use our lobbying tool to write to the town clerk and demand these plans be put to an end.
actionnetwork.org/letters/just...
Our members at the criminal court are soon to be outsourced — facing lower wages, intensified work and insecurity.
Use our lobbying tool to write to the town clerk and demand these plans be put to an end.
actionnetwork.org/letters/just...
January 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🚨 KEEP OLD BAILEY CLEANERS IN-HOUSE 🚨
Our members at the criminal court are soon to be outsourced — facing lower wages, intensified work and insecurity.
Use our lobbying tool to write to the town clerk and demand these plans be put to an end.
actionnetwork.org/letters/just...
Our members at the criminal court are soon to be outsourced — facing lower wages, intensified work and insecurity.
Use our lobbying tool to write to the town clerk and demand these plans be put to an end.
actionnetwork.org/letters/just...
More good news: all 6 of our members at London Museum have received an apology from DOC Cleaning Ltd for their mistreatment between 2017-2023.
They have also been awarded a total of £101,000 in compensation between them 💪🚩
They have also been awarded a total of £101,000 in compensation between them 💪🚩
January 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
More good news: all 6 of our members at London Museum have received an apology from DOC Cleaning Ltd for their mistreatment between 2017-2023.
They have also been awarded a total of £101,000 in compensation between them 💪🚩
They have also been awarded a total of £101,000 in compensation between them 💪🚩
Happy new year comrades 🚩
We’re starting ours on the right track — our member has won £10,000 in a tribunal against her unfair dismissal at Boohoo by outsourced contractors Pegasus Support Services 💪
Let this be a warning to all unscrupulous employers: in 2025 we fight back ✊
We’re starting ours on the right track — our member has won £10,000 in a tribunal against her unfair dismissal at Boohoo by outsourced contractors Pegasus Support Services 💪
Let this be a warning to all unscrupulous employers: in 2025 we fight back ✊
January 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Happy new year comrades 🚩
We’re starting ours on the right track — our member has won £10,000 in a tribunal against her unfair dismissal at Boohoo by outsourced contractors Pegasus Support Services 💪
Let this be a warning to all unscrupulous employers: in 2025 we fight back ✊
We’re starting ours on the right track — our member has won £10,000 in a tribunal against her unfair dismissal at Boohoo by outsourced contractors Pegasus Support Services 💪
Let this be a warning to all unscrupulous employers: in 2025 we fight back ✊
Important information for CAIWU members over the festive season 👇
We hope you all have a joyful festive season. Solidarity ✊
We hope you all have a joyful festive season. Solidarity ✊
December 13, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Important information for CAIWU members over the festive season 👇
We hope you all have a joyful festive season. Solidarity ✊
We hope you all have a joyful festive season. Solidarity ✊
Fantastic work, as always, from Strike Map.
Thanks for all your support comrades ✊
Thanks for all your support comrades ✊
🚀 Launched today 🚀
Our first ever report into the data we have collected.
Strike Map data shows 170,000 workplaces took strike action in 2023.
Download our full report here: bit.ly/SMReport2024
#StrikeMap
Our first ever report into the data we have collected.
Strike Map data shows 170,000 workplaces took strike action in 2023.
Download our full report here: bit.ly/SMReport2024
#StrikeMap
December 6, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Fantastic work, as always, from Strike Map.
Thanks for all your support comrades ✊
Thanks for all your support comrades ✊
We are absolutely delighted that our members won their appeal against discrimination by DOC cleaning at the London Museum. ✊
We hope this win will set a precedent for many more cleaners and outsourced workers in the sector.
Solidarity 🚩
#endoutsourcing
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/london-...
We hope this win will set a precedent for many more cleaners and outsourced workers in the sector.
Solidarity 🚩
#endoutsourcing
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/london-...
London Museum cleaners win employment tribunal over unfair treatment - Arts Professional
Cleaners at London Museum - formerly Museum of London - who claimed they were unfairly treated following the organisation's closure of its London Wall site have won an appeal against the outsourcing c...
www.artsprofessional.co.uk
December 5, 2024 at 5:13 PM
We are absolutely delighted that our members won their appeal against discrimination by DOC cleaning at the London Museum. ✊
We hope this win will set a precedent for many more cleaners and outsourced workers in the sector.
Solidarity 🚩
#endoutsourcing
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/london-...
We hope this win will set a precedent for many more cleaners and outsourced workers in the sector.
Solidarity 🚩
#endoutsourcing
www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/london-...
Gary Jackson of Property Resolution Services, contracted to clean My Space Islington, is unlawfully withholding the wages of two of our members.
Instead of rectifying the matter, he has shifted the blame.
Gary — it’s time to pay up or face legal action.
#justiceforcleaners #endoutsourcing
Instead of rectifying the matter, he has shifted the blame.
Gary — it’s time to pay up or face legal action.
#justiceforcleaners #endoutsourcing
December 3, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Gary Jackson of Property Resolution Services, contracted to clean My Space Islington, is unlawfully withholding the wages of two of our members.
Instead of rectifying the matter, he has shifted the blame.
Gary — it’s time to pay up or face legal action.
#justiceforcleaners #endoutsourcing
Instead of rectifying the matter, he has shifted the blame.
Gary — it’s time to pay up or face legal action.
#justiceforcleaners #endoutsourcing