After five years of unrelenting attacks on health and safety from all sides, many activists were hoping to see a change in direction after the election. Labour had promised to prioritise the…Read more…
ACT NOW! Iranian regime persecutes trade unionists … again!
Last week, labour activists in Iran once again found themselves the target of persecution for exercising their legal and rightful trade union activities. The incidents include the reported arrest and…Read more…
‘UDITA’ film shows need for labour law reform in Bangladesh
You can now watch on the TUC’s website the new documentary UDITA (ARISE) made by Rainbow Collective about the struggles that women trade unionists in the National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF)…Read more…
Inaction Replay: Qatar Reannounces Unkept Promise
It’s a strange tactic to take the anniversary of a promise you didn’t keep to make exactly the same promise. One year ago, with great fanfare, Qatar’s government promised the world…Read more…
May Day 2015: Justice at work
Today is International Workers’ Day, the first of May. Since 1890, May Day has seen trades unionists come together to celebrate the core values that we stand for. It’s a day for us to strengthen our…Read more…
May Day in distress
It seems that Governments around the world are cracking down on trade union activities on international workers’ day more than usual. From Bahrain to Swaziland and from Iran to Somalia and…Read more…
What do health workers want from this election?
Health and social care continues to dominate the election. Party manifestos have been published promising more funding, more services and more staff. As you might expect, a detailed look at these…Read more…
Rana Plaza anniversary: Two years is too long to wait for union rights and compensation
Today marks the second anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh, the worst industrial disaster in the country’s history that killed almost 1200 workers, most of them women…Read more…
What the party manifestos say on young people
Young people are finding it hard to get decent work and paying over 40% of their salary on rent has become the norm. But they’re also the group least likely to vote.Read more…
The Happiness report – Food for thought
There has been a lot in the press about the World Happiness Report that was published today by Sustainable Development Solutions Network, an initiative under the United Nations. This aims at…Read more…
Somali government tries to take over trade union movement
We’ve reported before on some of the terrorist outrages that make trade unionism in Somalia more difficult than we could possibly imagine. Despite those next-to-impossible obstacles, the…Read more…
What the Party Manifestos say on health and safety.
We now have the manifestos of all the main parties, it is interesting to see what they say (or don’t say) about occupational health and safety issues.Read more…
What working for Amazon really does to your health: the truth is starting to come out
We all know about Amazon’s lackadaisical approach to paying its taxes, and its “hire and fire” attitude to the workers who run its giant warehouses, where impossible work standards mean staff are…Read more…
Young workers speaking up for housing
The UK is caught in a deepening housing crisis, which is particularly hitting younger people. House building is stuck at a historically low level meanwhile the waiting list for social housing has…Read more…
#IAmAnImmigrant – poster campaign launch
This is the speech Mohammed Taj gave to the launch in Congress House of the I Am An Immigrant poster campaign. Last year I became the first South Asian born President of the TUC and this year I am…Read more…
A bit more than a ban on ‘zero hours abuse’
There was a lot in the Labour Party’s Manifesto for Work that echoes things unions have been calling for for a long time now.Read more…
Rana Plaza: $9 million still owed to the victims with 23 days to go to second anniversary – tell companies to #payup
In 23 days time it will be two years since the Rana Plaza factory collapsed in Savar district, Bangladesh killing 1138 workers, injuring thousands more and leaving 500 children orphaned. Shamefully…Read more…
Government fails end of term health and safety report.
The Government has published a “report book” on its reform of health and safety legislation over the past five years. It proudly boasts that it has reduced the number of regulations by 50%, and…Read more…
Message from Mogadishu
Over the weekend, we received the following report from our brother Omar Faruk Osman, the journalists’ union leader who is General Secretary of the Somali equivalent of the TUC, the Federation…Read more…
Turkish court frees trade unionists
For a number of years now I have covered Turkey as a member of the TUC’s European Union and International Department. During those years I have written protest letter after protest letter to the…Read more…