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July 2024

  • GMB union member outside the the Amazon warehouse in Coventry

    Amazon workers in Coventry lose union recognition ballot by handful of votes

    TUC insists fight will go on after GMB fails to secure right to represent retailer’s staff by just 29 votes
  • Angela Rayner with supporters at a Labour campaign rally.

    Voters of all parties back Labour’s plans to boost workers’ rights, poll shows

    Policies popular even among Tory and Reform voters as unions say pledges must be honoured in king’s speech
  • Patricia Dale

    Other lives
    Patricia Dale obituary

    Other lives: GP and public health specialist who became general secretary of the Medical Practitioners’ Union

June 2024

  • Close up of a man holding a credit card and paying bills on a laptop.

    Unsecured household debts set to rise by 9.4% this year, TUC says

    Largest annual rise since records began in 1987 sees forecast of average £1,660 extra debt amid cost of living crisis
  • A protest by fast food workers in London: a man holds a large red cardboard sign that reads No To Zero Hours in black and pink lettering.

    UK has seen ‘explosion’ in insecure work since 2011, says TUC report

    Record high of 4.1 million people found to be in precarious employment such as zero-hours contracts and casual work
  • A lime-green-coloured Jobcentre Plus sign

    UK unemployment rising at fastest pace of OECD countries, analysis shows

    TUC says only Costa Rica had similar increase in first quarter as ONS data expected to show further rise in April

May 2024

  • A statue to Field Marshall Alan Brooke outside MoD HQ, which is a monolithic office building in white Portland stone

    Civil service unions call for inquiry into sexual harassment at MoD

  • Keir Starmer and Natalie Elphicke pictured speaking to each other outside a building

    Natalie Elphicke’s anti-strike stance ‘incompatible’ with Labour, says TUC president

April 2024

  • Large crowds at a march. Banners include 'austerity is failing', 'austerity that's enough' and 'no cuts'.

    Real terms average pay lower in most UK local authorities than in 2008, TUC finds

    Union body says austerity is to blame for longest squeeze on wages since Napoleonic era with most ‘wage black spots’ in London
  • an illustration of facial recognition software being used on passers-by

    Leisure centres scrap biometric systems to keep tabs on staff amid UK data watchdog clampdown

    Firms such as Serco and Virgin Active pull facial recognition and fingerprint scan systems used to monitor staff attendance
  • A worker in a car factory in Washington, near Sunderland.

    UK takes another step on path out of recession as GDP rises

    February growth of 0.1% comes despite construction and retail being hit by wet start to year

March 2024

  • A white ferry with the P&O branding on the side in blue, moored at a harbour

    Nothing has been done to stop repeat of P&O Ferries scandal, unions say

    Despite UK government outrage the ‘legal loopholes remain and operator has been let off the hook’, says joint statement

February 2024

  • Julian Richer and Paul Nowak

    TUC boss and retail chief call for action on wealthy tax dodgers

    Paul Nowak and Julian Richer say taxes of up to £36bn a year are owed by companies and individuals
  • A school teacher holds his head in his hands as he marks papers.

    ‘Daylight robbery’: two in five UK teachers work 26 hours for free each week

    TUC survey finds teaching staff perform the most unpaid overtime of any profession, losing out on £15,000 a year each
  • Courier bike on the streets of London

    Unions warn against watering down Labour reforms of workers’ rights and ban on zero-hours contracts

    TUC call follows admission by CBI president that it is pushing party to soften its plans

December 2023

  • Sharon Graham

    Unions must resist the Tories’ new anti-strike laws – even if that means breaking the law ourselves

    Sharon Graham
    As the TUC meets to plan its response, my message is clear – don’t back down, says Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite
  • RMT members on a picket line outside Liverpool Lime Street station in July

    UK anti-strike law is ‘galvanising moment’ for unions, says TUC boss

    Paul Nowak calls new law ‘spiteful’ and says TUC will defend any worker who exercises their right to strike
  • portrait

    UK union leader’s mass defiance warning over ‘attempt to ban strikes’

    Fire Brigades Union chief speaks as TUC meets to discuss new minimum service laws

November 2023

  • NHS consultants and junior doctors take part in a strike on 4 October.

    Forcing medical staff to work during strikes could harm care, NHS Providers says

    Anti-strike laws risk damaging relationships between staff and employers, hospital trust leaders say

October 2023

  • Steve Schwarzman, chief executive of the Blackstone group

    Remote employees ‘don’t work as hard’, says head of world’s biggest commercial landlord

    Steve Schwarzman of the Blackstone group said staff want to work from home so they can save money
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