OUTSOURCED staff at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have voted in favour of trade union recognition despite a “sustained campaign of union-busting,” according to United Voices of the World (UVW). 

Cleaners, porters and security at the ministry’s central London office have become the first Whitehall workers to be officially represented by a non-TUC-affiliated union after voting 70 per cent in favour of recognition in a statutory ballot administered by the Central Arbitration Committee.

UVW, which largely represents low-paid migrant workers, alleged that MoJ contractor OCS had attempted to interfere with the ballot process.