Two unions are involved: the largest public sector union (and the second biggest overall union), Unison, and the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB). They don’t have the same methods but they have both recently won substantial victories to organize and bargain for workers in the cleaning industry, usually immigrants. (Ref. 130781)
The IWGB has pioneered campaign for equal sick pay, holidays and pensions amongst a mainly immigrant workforce who are outsourced workers and the direct employees at the University of London (the federal public university with 18 constituent colleges, 10 research institutes and a number of central bodies). The campaign aims to persuade the University to ensure that all workers have the same rights in these three areas.
After a long campaign, which so far has culminated in a two-day strike in lat
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