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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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📣 Starting TODAY, workers have more time to seek justice!
⚖️ Employment Tribunal claim limits have doubled from 3 to 6 months.
⚠️ But legal claims alone won’t change the balance of power at work.
✊🏽 Organise with your co-workers. Join UVW 🔗👇
uvwunion.org.uk/en/join-opti…
Commemorate The Battle of Cable Street’s 90th anniversary with UVW! ✊
📣 We've been invited to help lead the march and to speak at the rally.
We're meeting:
🗓️ Sunday, 4 October, 2026
⏰ 11:00 am
📍 Casa UVW, 144 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E1 5QJ
See you there ✨
Strong reps, stronger workplaces 💪
Know your rights. Build confidence. Stand up for yourself and your colleagues. ✊
UVW rep training is here to help members take action at work.
🔎 Find out more here: uvwunion.org.uk/en/events/
🚨UVW seeks on of the first-ever court injunction under blacklisting regulations against Butlin’s over concerns of union intimidation and blacklisting. ⚖️
Full press release here 👉uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel…
What happens when cleaners face harassment, intimidation and overwork?
They fight back ✊🔥
UVW cleaners took direct action after months of reported mistreatment and the sacking of a colleague.
Bosses panicked and agreed to negotiate.
Read the story 👉uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026…
🚨 STRIKE TODAY
Butlin’s accused of #unionbusting after reportedly bringing in new staff on better terms while refusing to meet striking Resort Safety Officers. If they can offer £15/hr to new recruits, why not listen to the workers already keeping guests safe? Full story 👇
Butlin’s CEO remains SILENT as workers set to strike 🤐
UVW is contacting local MPs, Butlin’s clients, and stakeholders to urge Butlin’s CEO Jon Hendry-Pickup to meet with their workers. 📝
Read more in our press release: uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel…
📣 BUTLIN’S SAFETY OFFICERS ARE GOING ON STRIKE! ✊
Workers will strike over the August Bank Holiday weekend with continuous action from 21 Sept, to show that safe holidays need safe jobs.
Read the press release here:
uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel…
🚨 100% YES TO STRIKE ACTION!
🚨Safety Officers at Butlin’s Bognor Regis vote unanimously for strike action, escalating their fight over safety, understaffing, pay, wage deductions and working conditions.
Walkouts could begin from 24 August. ✊
uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026…
Hospitality workers demand an end to zero-hours insecurity as bosses lobby again planned new protections uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026…
⚠️ Thousands of fire safety reports were ignored by Butlin's. Workers organised and warned of formal complaints.
The next day, repairs began.
✊ Workers are balloting for strike action over pay, staffing & conditions.
📝 Sign the letter of protest: uvwunion.org.uk/en/letter/bu…
Butlin's Resort Safety Officers are balloting for strike action after raising concerns about understaffing, unsafe conditions and poor management.
Safe holidays need safe jobs.☀️
📝 Send a letter demanding Butlin's listens to its workers: uvwunion.org.uk/en/letter/bu…
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 >>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: uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel…
#Butlins #WorkersRights #TradeUnion #UVWunion
✊🏽 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
uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel…
Butlin's at 90: Resort safety officers demand safer holidays and warn of strike ballot Read more 👇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 of a chain, paving the way for hospitality organising hotel by hotel. 🔗uvwunion.org.uk/en/press-rel…
📰 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/arti…
Join us at our Know Your Rights stall at @soundsbetween’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.