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 >https://uvwunion.org.uk/en/emanuel-gomes-organising-school/8-week-organising-course-march-may-2025/
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👇https://www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/events/2026/01/6-week-course-17-march-1-may-2026-join-the-next-emanuel-gomes-organising-school-course/
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 👇
✊🏽 POWER COMES FROM ORGANISING
This victory happened because workers organised.
👉 Join UVW
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/join/
👉 Share this victory
👉 Organise with us
The Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled GOSH’s delay unreasonable, unlawful & indirectly racially discriminatory. All affected cleaners will receive back pay, compensation & interest, potentially millions. @thkonp.bsky.social onp.bsky.social @nhsworkerssayno.bsky.social @bma.org.uk g.uk
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🔥 80 UVW cleaners at Great Ormond Street Hospital, mostly Black, brown and migrant, have won a landmark race discrimination case, a victory with national implications for thousands of workers. They had been taken in-house but denied full #NHS contracts for 18 months.
@keepournhspublic.bsky.social
Black hospital cleaners achieve ‘landmark victory’ against Great Ormond Street Hospital
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@marisharay.bsky.social @greatormondst.bsky.social @hinabokharild.bsky.social @uvwunion.bsky.social @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social
NHS — migrants work is no less valuable than a white persons
When Doris met @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Doris — Radisson Blu strike leader — is the 1st non-politician, non-academic to appear on @boldpolitics.bsky.social
She helped lead the first UK hotel strike since 1979 — & won every demand.
Workers’ voices matter💥
#StrikeVictory #MigrantWorkers #UVW
Other changes cover limits on the Certification Officer, union political funds, check-off, and ballot info rules. Organising is slightly easier in some areas, but major barriers remain.
Questions? Contact UVW 👇 www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/contact/
#TradeUnions #UKLaw #WorkplaceRights
📜 UK Trade Union Rights Update
From 18 Feb 2026, new rules come into force that affect ballots’ thresholds & mandates, picketing, notice periods, & dismissal protections.
Here are the Top 5 changes that workers need to know 👇
#UKLaw #EmploymentLaw #WorkplaceRights
🔥 We’re hiring 🔥
UVW is looking for a Campaign Communicator to help amplify the voices of low-paid, precarious, and migrant workers.
Help to tell workers’ stories, build pressure on bosses, and mobilise real support.
Deadline: 12 January
All details here: www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/work-for-...
In 2025, UVW ran 19 disputes, including our largest-ever 300+ worker strike ballot. Members won pay rises, stopped redundancies, ended two-tier workforces. Small union, punching above our weight. Here’s to more in 2026! #UKUnions #WorkersUnite #UVW
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2025...
Despite the hostile rhetoric, we are not the problem.
We are the backbone of the economy — and part of the solution.
Today we celebrate migrant power.
Today we celebrate us.
But we are far from powerless
We organise. We strike. We win.
We bring our cultures, our traditions, our joy, and our spirit of resistance everywhere we go — and this country thrives because of us.
Today we celebrate migrant power.
UVW members are the migrant, low-paid workers who keep this country running - & we are mostly women. We clean, care, cook, secure & support workplaces in facilities, hospitality, social care, healthcare.
#InternationalMigrantsDay #MigrantsDay
