🚨 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...
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...
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...
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
Nassaia Nkusi, Cleaner Supervisor: “This means everything to us. It wasn’t easy, but now we finally have a voice — we’re no longer being pushed aside or ignored.” 💬
UVW’s biggest recognition deal ever — power in unity wins again 💪
@nhsworkerssayno.bsky.social
This agreement gives workers:
✊🏾 Real rights to consultation & negotiation
✊🏾 Paid facility time for union reps
✊🏾 Up to 50% paid time off for union duties
A huge step forward for NHS staff who’ve been undervalued for far too long 🚩
@nhsmillion.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
🔥 Big win for NHS workers! After months of organising, UVW has signed a major collective agreement with Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust — covering 500+ cleaning, catering & portering staff 💪🏾
Read >> uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...
@bma.org.uk @strikemap.org @keepournhspublic.bsky.social
UVW took to the streets for International Women Workers’ Day ✊
Together with the Feminist Assembly of Latin Americans, thousands marched through London demanding dignity, safety and justice for women and gender-oppressed workers.
Read the story 👇
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...
Trade Union recognition, here we come!

Our application for union recognition at #Solace Women’s Aid #Charity in #Towerhamlets has been accepted by the CAC!
We are one step closer to #tradeunion recognition after our members were being denied it for so long.
Having forced them to handover all tips to workers in 2017 that they were previously taking 75% of, UVW is back fighting Harrods over its tip-pinching again.
This time in a groundbreaking legal claim.
Read all about it 👇
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
✊🏽💜 This 8 March, UVW joins the International Feminist Strike.
We’re marching against exploitation, violence & inequality — at work, at home & in our communities.
📍 3pm: Russell Square
Join us. Strike with us.
#8M #InternationalWomensDay #FeministStrike #UnionStrong
They’ve won before.
They’re fighting again.
And they’re determined to win.
👀 Watch this space for updates.
UVW members have won this battle before.
In 2017, they forced Harrods to hand over 100% of the service charge, after the company had been keeping 75%.
That victory helped shape the national debate that led to the new law.
The outcome could affect hospitality workers across the UK.
Because if £1 walks like a tip and talks like a tip…
They argue this breaches the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023, which requires tips and service charges to be allocated fairly.
This is the first legal test of what really counts as a tip under the new law.
At issue: a compulsory £1 “cover charge” per person added to restaurant bills.
UVW members at Harrods say it functions like a tip, but it isn’t distributed to staff.
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...
🚨 The Battle of the Tips Continues.
Restaurant staff at Harrods are taking the company to the Employment Tribunal tomorrow. 🧵
🔗 Read more >> uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...
We don’t wait for change.
We build it.
In UVW, members are training, organising, and winning across workplaces & communities.
Step up. Stand up. Skill up.
🔥 Join the movement → uvwunion.org.uk/en/join/
#tradeunions #organising #uvw
Migrant women housekeepers at Radisson Blu made history last summer with England’s first hotel strike in 45+ yrs — and won! Now, after WGC Ltd refused union recognition, they’re taking their claim to the CAC Tribunal💪🏽
#MigrantWorkers #HospitalityWorkers
More> www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...
EGOS IS BACK! UVW's Organising School.
Learn to organise 🔥
Support migrant workers ✊🏽
Lead campaigns with UVW ✊🏾
Build power across low-paid sectors ✊
Deadline for applications: 17 Feb 2026
Register >uvwunion.org.uk/en/emanuel-gomes-organis...
Solace Women’s Aid in Tower Hamlets is facing tribunal proceedings via the CAC. after Domestic Violence Advisors applied for statutory union recognition
Workers suspended strike action in good faith 7 monthsago.
✊🏾 Union recognition is the bare minimum.
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...
Children shouldn’t wait a decade for settled status.
UVW represents migrant workers whose children grow up here. This is a workers’ issue. We call on the government to scrap these plans and give families swift, secure settlement. Our statement 👇
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...
Dismissed after a strike ballot notice. Tribunal this week. ✊🏾 A Sudanese kitchen worker at Draughts games bar fights victimisation & defends the right to organise.
👉🏾 Read more uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2026...
#UVW #MigrantWorkers #HospitalityWorkers #UnionStrong
@gamestransformed.bsky.social
UVW & Safe Passage International charity sign union recognition deal! ✨
Staff now have a real voice to negotiate pay, conditions & workplace policies.
We’re proud to represent more & more charity workers every day! 💙💪
#WorkersRights #CharityWorkers #RefugeeSupport #UVWUnion"
Build real worker power in 2026.
UVW' Organising School (EGOS) is back — a 6-week, hands-on organising course focused on the hotel sector.
🗓 17 Mar–1 May
Register👇www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/events/2026/01/6-week...
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Hotel workers made history. Now we build on it. ✊
The Emanuel Gomes Organising School returns in 2026 — hands-on organising training with UVW.
🎥 Hear from EGOS grad Gautam, now a UVW organiser.
🗓 17 Mar–1 May | ⏰ Apply by 17 Feb 👇
