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Game dev union members marched at GDC to propose a 'Game Workers' Bill of Rights'

The UVW-CWA is envisioning a base standard set of working conditions for all game developers.

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Harrods faces legal action over £1-a-head dining charge not going to staff

Case brought by 29 workers and backed by UVW union seen as test case that could lead to changes at other restaurants

The Guardian - UK

‘Our industry has been strip-mined’: video game workers protest at The Game Awards

Outside the lavish event, workers called out the ‘greed’ in the industry that has left games ‘being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money’

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Hundreds of low-paid NHS hospital staff win improved terms after strike threat

More than 330 workers, mainly cleaners, caterers and porters, at St George’s, Epsom and St Helier hospital group had voted to strike

The Guardian - UK

NHS hospital group’s facilities staff vote to strike over £30m pay discrimination claim

Union accuses St George’s, Epsom and St Helier of ‘institutional racism’ as cleaners, caterers and porters get lower pay than colleagues

The Guardian - UK

South London hospital staff set to strike over 'Mickey Mouse' contracts

Ballot result showed 98% support for the strike

Evening Standard

Radisson Blu housekeepers in London to stage first hotel strike in 46 years

The union’s general secretary says the walkout is a historic turning point

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'Survivors left without support': Domestic abuse workers to strike over proposed job cuts

Fears over level of support for victims in Tower Hamlets, that has the second highest level of domestic abuse cases in London, if job cuts go ahead

Evening Standard

Public urged to stay away from three major London museums for a month as staff go on strike

The ‘longest ever’ strike over pay and working conditions will take place throughout the month of February

Evening Standard

London museum security guards urge public to stay away in strikes over pay

More walkouts planned in 2025 at V&A, Natural History and Science museums as workers demand living wage

The Guardian - UK

Staff at top London restaurants consider legal action over cover charges

Exclusive: unions could back legal action against firms such as Harrods that levy a charge that is not passed on to staff

The Guardian - UK

Harrods workers vote to strike in Christmas week over pay and perks

Three days of action include Boxing Day sales but union says no option as management ‘refuses to engage’

The Guardian - UK

Harrods workers vote to strike this Christmas after luxury retailer refuses to pay £500 bonus

One cleaner accused Harrods of treating workers ‘like machines’

Evening Standard

Security guard sues Science Museum for allegedly denying suitable chair

Malina Nowicka, a cancer survivor with chronic back pain, works as security guard at London museum

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Security at Science and Natural History museums to ballot for strike action

Exclusive: More than 70 guards at the London attractions taking part after ‘years of real-terms pay cuts’

The Guardian - UK

Cleaners at prestigious UK girls’ school win dispute over pay and conditions

Planned strike at James Allen’s girls’ school in London scrapped after cleaners are compensated for cut in hours

The Independent UK

Harrods migrant cleaners to strike over limit on length of trips to visit family

Exclusive: This comes as the luxury retailer celebrates its 175th anniversary.

The Guardian - UK

Cleaners at prestigious UK girls’ school vote to strike over cut in hours

James Allen’s girls’ school in London faces industrial action by members of union for low-paid migrant workers

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The Independent UK

Government cleaners win pay-out of up to £2,500 as strike called off

Union members say they have been treated differently to their white counterparts by being denied the London living wage of £13.15 per hour

The Guardian - UK

Spanish drivers hired to deliver Amazon parcels in UK take legal action over pay

Exclusive: Some of the drivers say they were not paid in full and in some cases billed thousands for vehicle damage

The Independent UK

Strippers prepare to launch legal action against Soho club over ‘abysmal treatment’

‘My manager came up with excuse after excuse, she kept telling me ‘tomorrow we will transfer the money’ and no money ever came,’ performer says

The Guardian - UK

Royal Parks workers bring landmark case over race and equal pay

Exclusive: Group of London toilet cleaners and attendants at court of appeal over legality of outsourced contracts

Evening Standard

Cleaner sacked 'for eating leftover tuna sandwich' at London law firm

Single mother Gabriela Rodriguez, from Ecuador, ate a sandwich that had been left by lawyers and was reportedly destined for the bin

The Guardian - UK

Cleaner sacked for eating leftover tuna sandwich takes legal action against City law firm

Gabriela Rodriguez cleaned the offices of Devonshires Solicitors for two years

Daily Mirror

Crowd gathers outside Downing Street to protest treatment of cleaners during Partygate

United Voices of the World (UVW) organised the demonstration outside Downing Street in light of Sue Gray's Partygate report which revealed the "unacceptable" treatment of government cleaners and security staff

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