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The Latest Breaking News from IWGB

More workers to join UK's biggest day of strikes on February 1 - the full list of services affected

Security guards will strike alongside teachers, civil servants, and rail workers

Manchester Evening News

Royal Society of Arts staff vote to unionise by overwhelming majority

Six to one ratio for recognising IWGB defies RSA management’s ‘pernicious’ attempt to vilify union

The Guardian - UK

UCL academics criticise use of agency workers to replace striking security staff

University and College Union expresses concern at what it says appear to be intimidatory tactics

The Guardian - UK

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Dozens of University College London security guards on three-day strike

Security guards employed by Bidvest Noonan are demanding £15 an hour

Evening Standard

University College London security staff begin strike over pay

Union representatives claim UCL has tried to thwart the industrial action by hiring agency workers

The Guardian - UK

Security workers at UCL to strike over pay and union recognition

Outsourced staff with Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain want £15 an hour – the rate paid 22 years ago

The Guardian - UK

Royal Society of Arts accused of ‘spite’ by staff member who spoke out on unions

Staff member who spoke to the Observer about drive to get workers to join IWGB union claims she was ‘punished’ by arts charity

The Guardian - UK

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‘Not living our values’: Royal Society of Arts accused of hypocrisy on staff union

The body gave an award for unionising workers to the IWGB, which it now refuses to recognise

The Guardian - UK

The world is rightly appalled by the Uber files – the drivers aren’t so surprised

My union has been fighting tooth and nail for the rights of Uber drivers. It feels like the only way to trigger change, says the IWGB’s Alex Marshall

The Guardian - UK

Food delivery drivers fired after ‘cut-price’ GPS app sent them on ‘impossible’ routes

Couriers who deliver for Just Eat were sacked by email and wrongly accused of taking ‘excessive detours’

The Guardian - UK

Deliveroo accused of ‘cynical PR move’ with union deal for couriers

IWGB union says endorsement by GMB means workers still receive below the minimum wage

The Guardian - UK

Deliveroo’s GMB agreement dubbed ‘cynical backroom deal’ by gig economy union

As part of the agreement, Deliveroo will recognise GMB as sole trade union for its riders.

Evening Standard

‘The threat of abuse and violence is still a daily part of the job’: the bereaved women fighting to protect gig economy drivers

In 2021, the Bolt driver Gabriel Bringye was killed by a group of teenagers. Now his fiancee and sister are battling to ensure it never happens again

The Guardian - UK

Glasgow foster carer may have to raid pension after allowance rise snub

Carers of children aged 10 or below are getting a rise in their allowance, after a 10-year freeze, but those looking after older children have not been given an increase.

Glasgow Live

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The Guardian - UK

Exploiters such as P&O watch out – there’s a new wave of trade unionists coming for you

Trade unions are shackled by restrictive laws, but they can still challenge militant capitalism, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Chronicle Live

'12 hour days on poverty pay' - Just Eat couriers to demonstrate outside of Greggs HQ in Newcastle as they strike over pay cuts

Just Eat couriers have previously targeted McDonald’s and KFC in what has become the longest gig-economy strike in history

Glasgow Live

'Isolated' Glasgow foster carer welcomes allowance rise but 'some way to go'

Foster carers are expected to get a 10% child allowance rise after a 10-year freeze, but one carer has highlighted the financial pressures of the role.

Daily Mirror

Fury as courier firm forces Covid heroes to strike over low wages and high costs

Khalil Lange, 31, who has been a driver for delivery company Stuart for three years said he used to enjoy the work and made reasonable money, but that has steadily changed

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