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A UNION representing low-paid migrant workers is to hold a strikers’ assembly next month as it gears up for its “biggest industrial action yet” by holding simultaneous ballots across multiple workplaces.
United Voices of the World (UVW) warned that the event on April 15 would coincide with the opening of ballots at 16 workplaces with nine different employers, potentially leading to a wave of summer walkouts.
The workplaces include Amazon warehouses, Mercedes car showrooms, the London School of Economics, the Department for Education, a “prestigious south London private school” and luxury flats, the union said.
Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
