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United Voices of the World
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Community union for low paid, precarious, migrant and marginalised workers. Our members come from over a hundred countries and work across the economy.
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In 2025, UVW ran 19 disputes, including our largest-ever 300+ worker strike ballot. Members won pay rises, stopped redundancies, ended two-tier workforces. Small union, punching above our weight. Here’s to more in 2026! #UKUnions #WorkersUnite #UVW
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2025...
2025: UVW In action
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📜 UK Trade Union Rights Update

From 18 Feb 2026, new rules come into force that affect ballots’ thresholds & mandates, picketing, notice periods, & dismissal protections.

Here are the Top 5 changes that workers need to know 👇

#UKLaw #EmploymentLaw #WorkplaceRights
January 13, 2026 at 5:48 PM
🔥 We’re hiring 🔥

UVW is looking for a Campaign Communicator to help amplify the voices of low-paid, precarious, and migrant workers.

Help to tell workers’ stories, build pressure on bosses, and mobilise real support.

Deadline: 12 January

All details here: www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/work-for-...
January 8, 2026 at 4:20 PM
In 2025, UVW ran 19 disputes, including our largest-ever 300+ worker strike ballot. Members won pay rises, stopped redundancies, ended two-tier workforces. Small union, punching above our weight. Here’s to more in 2026! #UKUnions #WorkersUnite #UVW
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2025...
2025: UVW In action
UVW
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December 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Today we celebrate migrant power.

UVW members are the migrant, low-paid workers who keep this country running - & we are mostly women. We clean, care, cook, secure & support workplaces in facilities, hospitality, social care, healthcare.
#InternationalMigrantsDay #MigrantsDay
December 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Christmas walkout at West End Quay 🎄✊

Cleaners & concierges at the luxury development in Paddington will strike for 12 days over Christmas (19 Dec 2025 – 2 Jan 2026) after bosses enforced a “Scrooge-style” pay freeze and walked back an ACAS-brokered deal
#ChristmasStrike
@ieruk.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🚨 This morning on BBC Radio London, UVW General Secretary exposed the truth: #NightWorkers are exploited, undervalued & kept invisible.

With the new #EmploymentRightsBill coming, we’re making our demands crystal clear 👇

🎧 Listen (from 01:42:19): bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Keep reading! 👇🏽
December 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🎥 “We knew they were cheating us…”
NHS cleaners, porters & caterers at St Helier & Epsom Hospitals organised, stood together & WON!

Organising matters! ✊🏾Their victory, in their own words.👇🏾

@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@bma.org.uk

❤️Share to celebrate & inspire!
November 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Thank you to everyone who’s donated — we still need £6,500 to challenge the unfair time limits that are denying seasonal migrant workers access to justice.

💥 Donate to their legal fund and help set a vital precedent for all victims of exploitation.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/help-se...
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Everywhere in the news! 🗞️🔥

500+ NHS workers just won a £10 million deal after years of being treated as second-class. Their story is making headlines everywhere!

See how the media is covering their victory 👀

In case you missed the Guardian story >> theguardian.com/society/2025...
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Congratulations!! Proud to have stood shoulder to shoulder with you on this 💙💪
“This is happiness!”
500+ NHS workers just WON a £10 million deal after years of being treated as second-class. 🔥
Their unity changed everything. Watch their joy and keep reading! ✊🏽
👇🧵

@keepournhspublic.bsky.social @blacklivesmatteruk.bsky.social
@bma.org.uk @bmalondon.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“This is happiness!”
500+ NHS workers just WON a £10 million deal after years of being treated as second-class. 🔥
Their unity changed everything. Watch their joy and keep reading! ✊🏽
👇🧵

@keepournhspublic.bsky.social @blacklivesmatteruk.bsky.social
@bma.org.uk @bmalondon.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
What happens when you’re dismissed from your job of 19 years after attending your sister’s funeral?

Jemima, a school cleaner in London, faced exactly this. But she didn’t face it alone. Read her story here👇🏽
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2025...

#solidarity #workersrights #justiceatwork #unionstrong
Dismissed after attending her sister’s funeral, Jemima fought back and got her job back!
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November 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🚨 OFFICIAL UVW VICTORY! ✊

It’s official — after a long and determined campaign, the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) has today ruled that United Voices of the World (UVW) is the legally recognised trade union for security guards at the Science Museum.

www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2025...
Historic Victory for Science Museum Security Guards Museum
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November 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No Pasarán! UVW Joins East London in Pushing Back Far-Right Mobilisation
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2025...
No Pasarán! UVW Joins East London in Pushing Back Far-Right Mobilisation
UVW
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October 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
WE'RE HIRING: Trade Union Organiser

Speak Spanish?

Speak Portuguese?

Want to join the fight for for workers’ rights?

Apply 👇👇

Closing date: 3rd November 2025

www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/work-for-...

#TradeUnionJobs #WorkersRights #OrganiserRole #UnionCampaigns #LabourMovement #UKJobs
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Come and join UVW, a radical, member-led general workers union that supports some of the most exploited and marginalised workers in the UK.
www.uvwunion.org.uk
October 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
🚨 Check Your Pay!

New Living Wage rates:

💷 £14.80 p/h London
💷 £13.45 p/u UK

The Living Wage’s meant to cover real costs — but it’s still not enough. So if you’re not even getting that, get organised and get fighting #UVW #unionstrong #livingwage
October 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
💥 Solidarity matters.

Huge thanks to @bma.org.uk London for standing with #NHS porters, cleaners and caterers at Epsom and St Helier hospitals, UVW members, in their fight for fair, nationally agreed contracts. St Georges Trust, do the right thing!

Together we’ll win. ✊🏽
#SolidarityForever #UVW
October 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
They picked Britain’s fruit. They faced abuse & exploitation.
When they tried to seek justice, the system said it was “too late.”
Support their legal appeal & stand with all migrant workers.

💥 Donate: and read more 👇

crowdjustice.com/case/help-se...
Help seasonal migrant workers seek justice
We are a grassroots trade union of low-paid, migrant & precarious workers and we fight the bosses for dignity and respect through direct action on the streets and through the courts!
crowdjustice.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
UVW in the news again today — this time in The New Statesman! 👇

Reporting on #UVW porters, cleaners & caterer members at St Helier & Epsom hospitals— #NHS employees who have voted to strike for equal pay & conditions as their colleagues. ✊
@nhsworkerssayno.bsky.social @keepournhspublic.bsky.social
Staff of St Heliers and Epsom hospital have backed a strike and it seems they are now being heard
How hospital porters forced the NHS to the table
www.newstatesman.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The Guardian today covered our latest dossier on a pay scandal exposing systemic racial inequality and financial injustice at St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals.
📢 Now read our full report for yourself
👉 www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2025...
Pay scandal exposed at NHS Trust: £30m in pay and benefits and £6m in pension contributions withheld from mainly migrant cleaners, caterers and porters
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October 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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NHS trust’s facilities staff vote to strike over pay discrimination claim
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Union accuses hospital group of ‘institutional racism’ as cleaners and porters get lower pay than colleagues
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NHS trust’s facilities staff vote to strike over pay discrimination claim
Union accuses hospital group of ‘institutional racism’ as cleaners and porters get lower pay than colleagues
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October 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Today he Guardian covered our fight for equality in the NHS — nearly 350 UVW members at St Helier and Epsom Hospitals standing up to injustice & ready to strike for full NHS contracts.
@geshNHS

#UVWUnion #FairPayNow #NHSEquality

theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS hospital group’s facilities staff vote to strike over £30m pay discrimination claim
Union accuses St George’s, Epsom and St Helier of ‘institutional racism’ as cleaners, caterers and porters get lower pay than colleagues
theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
EVENT: Come & hear #NHS porters, cleaners & catering staff at St Helier & Epsom Hospitals, who are fighting for the same pay & conditions as all NHS staff!

🗓️ Thu 16 Oct | 7:30–9:00 PM
📍 William Morris House, SW19 1SD

Free tickets👇https://tickettailor.com/events/williammorrismeetingrooms/1888373
October 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
💥 Hospitality & Retail Workers! 💥

From bar staff to hotel housekeepers, we are winning better pay & conditions by organising together. ✊

Join our 1-day organising training to take power back!

📅 20 Oct | 🕙 10–4 | 📍 UVW Office, E1 5QJ
👉 Sign up: tinyurl.com/yeyv9mz4
October 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.

This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM