I want my time leading the TUC to focus on one thing: making the trade union movement bigger, stronger and more diverse. That’s how we win for more workers.
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Defending the right to strike
Make no mistake: we will fight hard. Any new restrictions are likely to be in breach of the UK’s commitments under international law.
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Countdown starts on vital rights
If a Bill currently being considered by Parliament becomes law, many workers’ rights and protections could be swept away at the stroke of midnight on 1 January 2024.
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Trade Unions are key to making sure women are free from financial abuse
Understanding how financial abuse undermines women’s economic independence helps understand how all-encompassing violence against women, girls and non-binary people can be.
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Why are workers striking?
This winter we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of workers’ taking industrial action – or striking – to defend their pay and conditions. These are individual disputes, and it’s important to understand the details in different workplaces. But there is a co…Read more…
Unions and the World of Work: essential lessons on workplace rights for students across Wales
When the students of today enter the workplaces of tomorrow they need to be armed with the knowledge to keep them safe from exploitation and harm. This is the only way to enable them to have the rewarding careers they deserve.
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The next step on our Welsh Language journey: launching our Welsh Language Forum
Earlier this year TUC Cymru launched our ‘Cynnig Cymraeg Welsh Language Offer’ setting out what you can expect to receive in Welsh when communicating with us.
The Welsh Language is an important part of our commitment to equality and diversity. And one …Read more…
TUC Winter Patrol – engaging and organising young workers across Yorkshire
Over three days and across three cities, seventeen young trade union activists from across the movement came together for the TUC Winter Patrol; engaging young precarious workers in the hospitality industry.
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COP 27 Initial reflections
Reflections on COP 27
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Working people take the hit for Tory economic failure
TUC reaction to Autumn Statement 2022. Until we have a government that has a serious plan to put work before wealth, we look set to remain trapped in the doom loop of austerity politics.
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Yorkshire Needs a Pay Rise – Organising Young Workers on the TUC Winter Patrol
Teaming up with Norwegian trade unionists, the Baker’s union and Unite, young workers are coming together for the TUC Winter Patrol to engage workers across the poorly paid and precarious hospitality industry.
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Disability History Month 2022
16 November marks the start of Disability History Month. The month is an opportunity to focus in on the disabled people’s history and struggle for equality and human rights and to recommit ourselves to fight for the rights of disabled people across our…Read more…
This government does not care about child poverty
The cost of living emergency is causing severe hardship for low-income families across the UK.
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One year on from the global climate conference in Glasgow, what’s changed in Wales for workers?
One year ago, I was representing Welsh workers at the Cop 26 global climate meeting of world leaders in Glasgow. The meeting agreed a set of targets and actions to tackle global warming.
The president of the conference, Alok Sharma, said it was an “his…Read more…
Get involved and get active
Young Workers Month
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The new prime minister must get pay rising
One of the biggest challenges facing the new Prime Minister is addressing a pay crisis that the government in power has spent the past twelve years presiding over and bears a good deal of responsibility for. A top priority must be fixing it.
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Failed Trussonomics out. Failed austerity and City bankers back in.
There is another way to deliver an economy that works for working people, but the government couldn’t be further from it,
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Trade unions are changing the way we think about menopause in the workplace
In the past few years trade unions in Wales have helped make some big, and small, improvements in the workplace for women going through the menopause.Read more…
Working people are using food banks in Swansea – it’s time to demand better
Wales TUC and Swansea trades council are holding a rally at the Volcano Theatre on Swansea High Street on Monday 10 October.
Ahead of the rally Gareth Bromall, the Secretary of Swansea trades council, writes about the impact the cost-of-living crisis i…Read more…
5 ways to integrate employment charters into public procurement
Not a penny of public money should go to bad bosses. Around the country, innovative devolved authorities and trade unions are working together to hard-wire good work into public contacts.
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