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Trade union creates legal sector offshoot to tackle ‘poverty pay’

updated on 17 April 2019

A legal offshoot has been launched by trade union United Voices of the World (UVW) in order to represent all workers in the legal sector. Legal Sectors Workers United (LSWU) claims to “organise workers in the legal sector, for the benefit and protection of the less privileged”.

Describing the profession as “riddled with poverty pay and huge wage inequality”, UVW represents low paid staff and has said it will support everyone from cleaners, clerks and security staff, to trainees and practising lawyers. “Junior legal workers are subject to enormous pressure from multiple sources,” says the UVW website. “Too often this results in high workloads, low salaries and inadequate support.”

The union recently represented security guards, receptionists and cleaners at the Ministry of Justice, and claimed victory on behalf of cleaners at the London School of Economics.

Human rights campaigner Michael Mansfield QC called the initiative “long overdue” and recalled working on an earlier unsuccessful effort in the 1970s. UVW membership starts at £6 a month for those with a gross income of less than £700 a month.

You can find out more about the union on the UVW website.

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