Butlin's Resort Safety Officers are balloting for strike action after raising concerns about understaffing, unsafe conditions and poor management. Safe holidays depend on safe jobs. 📝 Stand in solidarity. Send a letter demanding Butlin's listens to its workers. www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/letter/bu...

Resort Safety Officers raised concerns about understaffing, faulty equipment & low pay at Butlin's Bognor Regis. Management's response? Round tables, questions about the union & rushed new procedures. They want safer workplaces, proper staffing & respect >> www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/disputes/...

Butlin’s Resort Safety Officers at Bognor Regis have served Notice of Intention to Ballot for strike action after management failed to address concerns over safety, staffing and pay. Read the full statement: www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel... #Butlins #WorkersRights #TradeUnion #UVWunion

Butlin’s Resort Safety Officers Move towards Strike Ballot as Management Fails to Address their Safety Concerns

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✊🏽 Science Museum security guards win up to 30% pay restoration! After 2 years of organising with UVW, 50+ strike days & sustained pressure, outsourced guards have secured higher pay, an attendance allowance for all, and wages above the London Living Wage. t.co/0JWwvya1Zz

Butlin's at 90: Resort safety officers demand safer holidays and warn of strike ballot Read more 👇 www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel...

🏨 Two Hotels. One Union. One Win✊🏽 Radisson Blu Canary Wharf & Euston Square housekeepers, mostly migrant women, win the UK's first-known statutory union recognition covering 2 hotels in the same chain, paving the way for hospitality organising hotel by hotel. 🔗 www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel...

Historic victory as Radisson Blu housekeepers win trade union recognition at two UK hotels

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📰 UVW in the Morning Star "The answer is not for charity workers to step back, but to join a union and fight for the right to a safe workplace." Read the full story > morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thou...

Join us at our Know Your Rights stall at Sounds Between’s Making Our Neighbourhood local community festival! ✊🎉 📅 Sunday, 19 July 🕛 12–6pm 📍 Burgess Park, Southwark, SE5 0RJ Come for food and ideas. Leave with knowledge and confidence to defend your rights at work.

Ark Globe Academy cleaners have voted 100% YES in favour of strike action 💯 Workers have delivered a clear mandate: they deserve dignity and respect. Read our press release: www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026... ✊ Strike dates will be announced soon.

Migrant cleaners at South London school Ark Globe Academy vote for strike action

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🎬🌈 Join us for a Pride screening of Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives! We're also raising funds to help two racialised queer UVW members cover visa costs. 🗓️ Friday, 3 July 📍 Casa UVW, E1 5QJ 🕖 7pm Register here: app.zetkin.org/o/487/survey...

🗳️ Ark Academy strike ballot closes Thursday, 25 June. Ark Globe Academy cleaners are voting on strike action over unpaid London Living Wage increases and ongoing payroll problems. ✊ Stand with the cleaners and sign the protest letter: www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/letter/ar...

☕ UVW Café Consulta sessions bring members together to learn about their rights, pensions, and future. We provide real questions, real answers, and worker-led info. 💪 Next session: combining pensions between the UK and Spain. 💥

Denied the full London Living Wage increase, workers are standing together and making their voices heard. 📢 Every ballot is a message: cleaners are organising for dignity, fair pay and respect at work. Support the campaign by signing the letter of protest: www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/letter/ar...

Huge thanks to the compañerxs at the Southwark Trades Union Council for inviting ArkGlobeAcademy UVW members to speak about their fight for the London Living Wage as their ballot opened!✊ Send a protest letter 👇 www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/letter/ar... @lb-southwark.bsky.social @greenpartytu.bsky.social

If you’ve never been on strike or don’t know much about UVW—this training is for you! 🫵 Learn the practical skills that help workers come together, take action, and win what you need and deserve at work.  🔗 Apply here: app.zetkin.org/o/487/survey...

🚨 Outsourced migrant cleaners at Ark Globe Academy in south London are being balloted for strike action 🔥 They won the London Living Wage in 2020 — now they’ve been denied the full 2026 increase. Read more here 👇 www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel...

@hackneycouncil.bsky.social keeps ignoring Maryori. So she took the campaign to her worksite in Hackney 📢 When bosses don’t listen, workers escalate 🔥 DM us to find out what’s next.

Confused about the new UK sick pay laws? 🤔 We break down the SSP changes ✔SSP from day 1
✔ Regardless of earnings
 ✔ 80% of wages or £123.25/week (whichever is lower) But £123.25/week is still a poverty wage! ✊ Join UVW & fight for more >> www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/join/

Bosses rely on workers not knowing their rights. We’re changing that. 💪 Members, reps & strike leaders came together last weekend to learn workplace rights and build collective power against exploitation. ✊🔥 🎥 Watch us in action: youtube.com/shorts/l-sl7...

Know your rights members assembly 9 May 2026

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⚠️ Hackney Council cannot keep ignoring Maryori. After refusing an abrupt 5am shift change, migrant cleaner Maryori’s hours were cut from 35 to 20. Today we delivered a letter to Mayor Zoe Garbett and Hackney HR demanding action ✊ Help us reach 200 letters ✍️: www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/letter/ju...

📢 Hackney Council is still ignoring Maryori ✊🧹

 As a migrant worker, Maryori’s experience falls far short of Hackney’s status as a “Borough of Sanctuary.” 🏙️🤝 Listen to Maryori's story: youtu.be/HfBjrmKxHrA

Stand with Maryori against Hackney Council!

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🇵🇸 NGO workers supporting pro-Palestinian rights have won union recognition at the European Legal Support Centre ✊ A major step forward for workers’ rights in the NGO sector—driven by collective organising and solidarity. Read our news story here: www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel...

UVW and legal support centre defending pro-Palestine advocacy sign trade union recognition agreement

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Migrant cleaner Maryori takes Hackney Council to court for discrimination, harassment, and bullying⚖️ She's demanding: ✅ Full hours + back pay ✅ Proper grievance hearing ✅ Fair talks with her union Read more here: www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel...

🚨 Security guards at V&A + Science Museum employed by Wilson James, are voting on strike action for • 💷 Minimum £15.20/hour • 🤒 Full sick pay from Day 1 • 🏖️ An extra week of annual leave • An end to union victimisation: following the sacking of 3 guards at the V&A. UVW is seeking Interim Relief.

Fired Over a Juice Carton: Migrant Cleaner Sues Amazon for Race Discrimination After Summary Sacking In Shocking Theft Scandal Read more here 👇 www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...

Fired Over a Juice Carton: Migrant Cleaner Sues Amazon for Race Discrimination After Summary Sacking In Shocking Theft Scandal

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Sacked. Escorted out. Now fighting back. 🔥 Edi has inspirational words for his former colleagues, museum security guards at the Victoria and Albert museum and @sciencemuseum.org.uk , who are balloting for strike action—AGAIN. £15/hr, full sick pay from day one. reinstatement now. ✊ #UVW #Strike

A community union in action 💛 Learning our rights. Solving problems together. Building something stronger. Join us at the next Café Consulta ☕

Do you want to learn how to stand up to bosses and take action? 📩 Apply for UVW’s organising school, EGOS + support our solidarity fund to power the next wins. Read more about our 2026 cohort to see how we build power💥👇 www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...

Full house of students kicks off the first week of EGOS

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V&A and Science Museum Guards on brink of strike action over pay and "sham" sackings— one year after walkouts. Read more >> www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...

V&A and Science Museum Guards on brink of strike action over pay and “sham” sackings— one year after walkouts

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We don’t let bosses get away with it! 🎥 UVW member Raúl was owed £800+ by a Brixton venue. For months they ignoring calls & emails, we showed up united—Friday night, direct action, full pay recovered. Solidarity works! 💪 #UVW #DirectAction