Our job is to help victims of domestic violence, but we still face bullying and discrimination at work

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Workplace bullying, precarious contracts, low pay, racism, transphobia, mental health crises; you don’t have to look far to find all of these issues in many workplaces up and down the UK. And that's why on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we – a group of workers from a range of specialist sexual violence and domestic violence organisations – launched the first ever trade union for our workplaces to challenge these injustices. The VAWG and GBV Workers Union is a part of the independent trade union United Voices of the World, a grassroots, member-led trade union which supports workers traditionally seen as “unorganisable” by older and larger trade unions. We see it in the way the women's sector in Britain has accepted and implemented a two-tier system of domestic violence support set by the Home Office "hostile environment" policy that denies migrant women access to public funds and public services.