2019-10-31 UVW 5 migrant strikes in a day
63 images Created 31 Oct 2019
Low-paid migrant workers belonging to the United Voices of the World (UVW) trade union take part in a coordinated series of ‘five strikes in one day’ involving cleaners from the Ministry of Justice (outsourced via OCS and seeking the London Living Wage of £10.55 and parity of sick pay and annual leave with civil servants), café workers from the University of Greenwich (outsourced via BaxterStorey and seeking to be brought in-house and given the same terms and conditions as other workers at the university), cleaners, caterers and porters from St Mary's Hospital Paddington (outsourced via Sodexo and seeking the same terms and conditions as comparable in-house NHS workers), cleaners from ITV and Channel 4's offices in Gray's Inn Road (outsourced via City & Essex and seeking full sick pay and more annual leave) and park attendants and cleaners from the Royal Parks (outsourced via Vinci and seeking a pay rise from £8.21ph to the London Living Wage of £10.55 ph, occupational sick pay and statutory holiday).
