Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain

IWGB
Independent Workers Union of Great Britain
Founded14 June 2013;
11 years ago (2013-06-14)[1]
HeadquartersLondon, UK
Location
Members
Steady 6,324 (2021)[1]
General Secretary
Henry Chango Lopez
President
Alex Marshall
AffiliationsProgressive International
Websitewww.iwgb.org.uk

The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is a trade union in the United Kingdom.[2] The IWGB comprises eleven branches which organise workers within their chosen industry, run their own campaigns and have their own representative officials. Their members are predominantly low-paid migrant workers in London. The IWGB began as a breakaway from Unite and UNISON. The dispute stemmed from disagreements over how to get better working conditions for cleaners at the University of London, and, more broadly, about how to run modern trade unions.[3] The IWGB is one of the main trade unions in challenging employment law relating to the 'gig economy'.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference UKCO was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Certification Office: certificates of independence – GOV.UK". Gov.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  3. ^ Beckett, Andy (22 October 2015). "Vuvuzelas Unite" (PDF). London Review of Books. 37 (20): 25–28.
  4. ^ Bawden, Anna (19 October 2016). "Jason Moyer-Lee: Why the gig economy is a threat to us all". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  5. ^ Braithwaite, Pheobe (8 March 2017). "Organising the workers whose jobs are made precarious by technology". OpenDemocracy. OpenDemocracy.net. Retrieved 21 April 2017.