Migrant cleaners in Living Wage victory against the Daily Mail
Submitted by Ed on Mar 22 2018 21:26
A group of migrant cleaners - who are members of the trade union United Voices of the World (UVW) - have just won a historic victory at the Daily Mail.
Migrant cleaners at the Daily Mail to strike against poverty wages
Submitted by Cipo Fraioli on Mar 2 2018 21:52
Outsourced cleaners at the Daily Mail, predominantly from Latin America and Africa, have demanded to be paid the current London living wage of £10.20 p/h and threatened strike action, if their demands are not met.
Kate Mullany and the Collar Laundry Union
Submitted by Working Class H... on Feb 1 2018 22:32
A history of the Collar Laundry Union – the first female union in the United States – set up by Kate Mullany, Esther Keegan and others in Troy, New York in 1864.
Cleaners at luxury car dealer protest suspensions after strike vote
Submitted by RosalindR on Oct 1 2017 19:52
Cleaners at a Ferrari showroom in London's richest borough were suspended without pay this week after voting for strike action. Their union, United Voices of the World, are now preparing to take HR Owen luxury cars and Templewood cleaning agency to court for trade union victimisation.
Tribute to Ernesto Leal, a founder of the London migrant cleaners' movement
Tribute written by members of the Latin American Workers' Association (LAWAS) in 2009 after the death of Ernesto Leal (11 January 1938 - 22 October 2009), Chilean communist exile who eventually moved to London, working as a cleaner and founding LAWAS. In the same days of Leal's death, Unite the union purged LAWAS, leading cleaners to join the IWW and eventually founding IWGB and UVW, which continue to organise cleaners and other low-wage migrant workers in London's service sector. We republish it here from The Commune (now defunct) in light of the recent historic victories of migrant cleaners at LSE and SOAS.
UK: A Promising Hospital Strike
Submitted by Fredo Corvo on Aug 6 2017 20:35
Since the Spring of this year in several London hospitals about 750 cleaners, security personnel and porters have been in dispute with their employer, Serco. They are part of the lowest paid workers in the U.K.
Coalition representing 350,000 announces May 1st strike
Submitted by Soapy on Mar 23 2017 13:41
Workers will strike on International Worker's Day to protest worsening conditions across the country
Mississippi's first labour union - Ken Lawrence
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 10 2016 11:45
A short account of the first trade union in Mississippi, which was created in 1866 by African-American washerwomen.
Atlanta's washerwomen strike, 1881
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 9 2015 10:29
A short history of the strike of overwhelmingly African-American women laundresses in Atlanta Georgia. Coming only shortly after the abolition of slavery, the strike was successful in raising wages and establishing a union.
Letter on the IWW Domestic Workers Union, 1917 - Jane Street
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 8 2015 18:20
Fascinating letter from the secretary of the domestic workers' section of the Industrial Workers of the World union in Denver, 1917 about their activities and the sexism they faced from other union members. The letter was illegally seized by the government and only discovered nearly 60 years later.
