Today’s jobs data again reinforced how badly working people have been failed over the last 14 years. Unemployment was up, long term sickness hit a new record and real pay has still not advanced from 2008 levels in real terms.
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The worst government for growth in modern times
After three successive positive months for growth, April GDP came in at zero.
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Amazon dispute: GMB pushes for historic recognition
After a long and contentious battle, the GMB union is on the verge of becoming the first recognised trade union at an Amazon warehouse in the UK and Europe.
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High Court rules government’s Windrush failings are unlawful
Home secretary’s decisions found to be unlawful in UNISON legal case
The article High Court rules government’s Windrush failings are unlawful first appeared on the UNISON National site.
90 years later, a new Popular Front is born
It is exactly ninety years since the French Socialist and Communist parties began to create the Popular Front, which dominated French politics in the mid-1930s. The danger then was the threat of the far Right…Read more…
50 years of TUC Cymru: Campaigning for equality puts the menopause on the map
How the menopause became one of TUC Cymru’s biggest ever workplace equality campaigns.
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TUC Cymru 50: Balchder a streic y glowyr
Yn y ffilm arobryn Pride yn 2014, Dai Donovan yw’r glöwr Cymreig cynnes a hwyliog sy’n cwrdd â Lesbiaid a Hoywon sy’n Cefnogi’r Glowyr (LGSM) yn Llundain ac yna, yn ôl yng Nghymru, mae’n croesawu aelodau o’r grŵp ar lawr ei ystafell fyw. Heb os, mae’n …Read more…
TUC Cymru 50: Pride and the miners’ strike
In the 2014 award-winning film Pride, Dai Donovan is the warm, good-humoured Welsh miner who meets Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) in London and then, back home in Wales, hosts members of the group on his living-room floor. He’s undoubtedly…Read more…
Conservative policies mean UK has had worst inflation and growth outcomes in the G7
The outcomes once again show conservative government policies as seriously wrongheaded. While the coming monthly figures are likely to show inflation back at target, across the two years the UK has paid a much higher price than other countries in term…Read more…
50 mlynedd o TUC Cymru: 50 mlynedd o newidiadau o ddatganoli i amrywiaeth
Wrth i undebwyr llafur ymgynnull yn Llandudno ar gyfer Cyngres TUC Cymru 2024 mae Shavanah Taj wedi bod yn myfyrio ar y ddwy ddiwethaf, a hanner can mlynedd ein mudiad.
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50 years of TUC Cymru: 50 years of changes from devolution to diversity
As trade unionists gather in Llandudno for TUC Cymru Congress 2024 Shavanah Taj reflects on the last two, and 50, years of our movement.
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The cost-of-living crisis is far from over
Today CPI inflation figure for April fell to 2.3 per cent from 3.2 per cent in March.
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Labour market figures: the Conservatives have failed working people
Today’s jobs data again reinforced how badly working people have been failed over the last 14 years. Unemployment was up, long term sickness hit a new record and real pay has still not advanced from 2008 levels in real terms.
Read more…
The worst government for growth in modern times
After three successive positive months for growth, April GDP came in at zero.
Read more…
Amazon dispute: GMB pushes for historic recognition
After a long and contentious battle, the GMB union is on the verge of becoming the first recognised trade union at an Amazon warehouse in the UK and Europe.
Read more…
The Hive needs your support!
This week is Learning Disability Week (June 17 – 23) and across the country many support services and centres are highlighting the work that they do to help some of the vulnerable in society. One centre is The Hive Avon in Kingswood, Bristol. The Hive is a social drop-in centre for adults, aged 18 or […]
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50 years of TUC Cymru: Campaigning for equality puts the menopause on the map
How the menopause became one of TUC Cymru’s biggest ever workplace equality campaigns.
Read more…
TUC Cymru 50: Balchder a streic y glowyr
Yn y ffilm arobryn Pride yn 2014, Dai Donovan yw’r glöwr Cymreig cynnes a hwyliog sy’n cwrdd â Lesbiaid a Hoywon sy’n Cefnogi’r Glowyr (LGSM) yn Llundain ac yna, yn ôl yng Nghymru, mae’n croesawu aelodau o’r grŵp ar lawr ei ystafell fyw. Heb os, mae’n …Read more…
TUC Cymru 50: Pride and the miners’ strike
In the 2014 award-winning film Pride, Dai Donovan is the warm, good-humoured Welsh miner who meets Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) in London and then, back home in Wales, hosts members of the group on his living-room floor. He’s undoubtedly…Read more…
Conservative policies mean UK has had worst inflation and growth outcomes in the G7
The outcomes once again show conservative government policies as seriously wrongheaded. While the coming monthly figures are likely to show inflation back at target, across the two years the UK has paid a much higher price than other countries in term…Read more…