Learning at Work Week, 15-21 May 2023, is an annual event which gives organisations, trade unions and ULRs the opportunity to raise the profile of adult education and celebrate the power of lifelong learning to transform lives.
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Trade unions are fighting for trans rights
The workers’ movement has now established the Trade Unions for Trans Rights Network, a campaigning network that will organise for trans rights at work and in wider society – alongside LGBTQ+ charities and community organisations.
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Government’s anti-strikes bill defeated in the House of Lords – where next for the campaign to protect our right to strike
Last week saw a string of defeats for the government’s Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill in the House of Lords. A combination of Labour, Lib Dem, crossbench peers and bishops vote in support of amendments that neutered the worst bits of this terrib…Read more…
Ninety years on from the Nazi ban on free trade unions, the lessons remain relevant to us today
Ninety years ago, the Nazis banned free trade unions. Nine decades later, we remember this step towards tyranny and recommit ourselves to the defence of free trade unions in thriving democracies.
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This May Day, let’s fight to win
This May Day, let’s resolve to fight for all working people, in all our wonderful diversity. Ultimately, that’s the best way to win the change we need.
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Welsh workers remember their colleagues who were killed at work while the UK government plans to remove British laws which make workplaces safe
On 28 April, workers across Wales who lost their lives at work will be remembered in a national ceremony in Cardiff attended by the First Minister.
Meanwhile in Westminster, ministers are planning to trash British safety protections for workers in an i…Read more…
Lesbian Visibility Week
Lesbian Visibility Week is an opportunity to show solidarity with our lesbian members and friends.
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Asbestos is the biggest cause of work-related deaths in Britain #IWMD
More than 5,000 people every year are losing their lives to asbestos-related illness, caused by exposure at work. This is something unions are working every day to highlight – and to change.
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Rana Plaza – Ten Years Later
Rana Plaza killed 1,136 people, many of them knowing they were working in an unsafe factory but – without unions to guarantee their rights – powerless to do anything about it.
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In Turkey trade unionists face politically motivated injustice
TUC report on the international trade union trial observation delegation to Ankara, Turkey.
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Giving control away: why the new Pacific trade deal threatens our rights and laws
Giving control away: why the new Pacific trade deal threatens our rights and laws
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Institutional racism still remains a challenge at work and in wider society
On the anniversary of Stephen’s death, the sad truth is this: not enough progress has happened to challenge racism in the last 30 years.
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Scrap the Illegal Migration Bill
The government is introducing legislation that would amount to an asylum ban and send more people into the hands of the most exploitative employers.
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Age should not be a barrier to higher level learning
The Lifelong learning bill has just completed its second reading in parliament. The TUC and unions have long campaigned for strengthened rights and support for lifelong learning to improve the working lives of our members. However, the bill raises sign…Read more…
Budget 2023 – was that it?
A Budget with no ambition, more of the same at best, and basically ignoring the most pressing problems facing the UK.
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Pay up, chancellor – or the doom loop will never end
This year’s Budget day will see teachers and university staff, civil servants and rail workers out on strike for better pay. The government has to learn that cuts are opposed to economic growth, and the economy will only recover when workers have money…Read more…
Why we need Fair Funding for Wales
People in Wales are enduring the worst cost of living crisis for a generation. Nisreen Mansour explains what Wales TUC is calling on the UK Government to do to deliver better for Wales.
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One year on from P&O Ferries, the government is still letting workers down
It’s been a year since the P&O Ferries sackings, but nothing has been done to stop another one.
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Why the trade union struggle needs to be a feminist one – and vice versa
The history of International Women’s Day is a story of women who would not settle for the status quo. It’s a story of women workers protesting against unfair working conditions. Of women who demanded a voice when they had something to say. Of women who…Read more…
Plans to expand pensions auto-enrolment are a welcome first step
The government has backed legislation to expand savings into workplace pension schemes.
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