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Legal sector workers unite

17 April 2019
Issue: 7837 / Categories: Legal News , Employment , Profession
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A union for legal sector workers launched this week. Legal Sector Workers United (LSWU) is a new union under the umbrella of United Voices of the World (UVW), a union founded in 2014. LSWU wants to help all workers in the legal sector, including clerks, security staff, solicitors and barristers, paralegals, ushers, judges, solicitor-advocates and cleaners. Welcoming the launch, Michael Mansfield QC said: 'This initiative is long overdue. I was involved in an earlier effort in the 1970s which was far less ambitious and did not survive.' John Hendy QC said: 'The inequalities in income and in terms and conditions in the legal world are notorious. I wish them luck.'

Issue: 7837 / Categories: Legal News , Employment , Profession
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