Too many LGBT+ workers have experienced harassment and unwanted behaviours which are offensive, intimidatory or humiliating. Here are links to guidance that can help you be a better LGBT+ ally.Read more…
Mental Health Matters
A look at our Mental Health Matters series and the personal testimony of our TUC North West executive member Karen Kendrick.Read more…
Wales’s Social Partnership Bill: A chance for change
Progress on the Welsh Government’s Fair Work agenda has been stop-start in the two years since the independent Fair Work Commission published its ambitious set of recommendations. The new Social…Read more…
What Workers in Wales Want: 5 Priorities for the Next Senedd Term
Between December 2020 and April 2021 we worked with YouGov to talk to thousands of workers across Wales to better understand how they view their working lives, their experiences of the Covid crisis,…Read more…
Rebuilding for Good Jobs: Why the next Welsh Government must focus on job quality
If we’re going to come out of the Covid crisis with a fairer economy and a more equal Wales then the next Welsh Government must confront the grim realities of our labour market and target job quality…Read more…
We need to talk about low skilled jobs
‘High skilled green jobs’ is the shibboleth of the think tank-ocracy right now. It is fashionable (and important) to talk about how we create jobs that meet our climate target obligations and support…Read more…
Pushing for a global workers’ agenda through international solidarity
Last week the TUC held an event on ‘Building back a better world’ highlighting how trade unions are working together internationally to counter the race to the bottom caused by trade agreements and…Read more…
Flexi-job apprenticeships must not lead to exploitation
The government has announced a consultation on a new flexi-job apprenticeship scheme involving apprentices experiencing their employment and training with a number of different employers.Read more…
Air pollution – a workplace issue
Air pollution is blighting communities. It is affecting the health of workers on their journeys to and from work. It also harms workers while they are at work (both those working indoors and out)….Read more…
Labour internationalism begins at home
The global financial crisis, recession and subsequent austerity policies amount not only to a disastrous failure of policy but also of economic thinking.Read more…
A safe return to work
The success of the vaccine roll-out must not be used as an excuse to slack on safety in the workplace: it is still possible to catch and carry the virus. Read more…
Young workers are being hit hardest, and some more than others
Youth unemployment figures reveal the uneven impact, with BME young people twice as likely to be unemployedRead more…
Government must urgently rethink sending shielders back to work
Workers told to shield should not have to choose between their health and their livelihood.Read more…
To recovery properly from this crisis, the government must ensure people have enough to live on
Even before this pandemic, the most vulnerable children and families were already struggling.Read more…
A year on from furlough
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the furlough scheme being introduced.Read more…
Cut to Green Homes Grant has taken a wrecking ball to green jobs in the North East
The withdrawal of hundreds of millions of pounds from the Green Homes Grant scheme will likely cost the best part of 6000 jobs in the region.Read more…
Uber rights U-turn is just the latest stage of the journey to decent work
A screeching U-turn by Uber on wages, pensions and holiday pay is the just the latest stage in the journey to ensure that all work – including in the gig economy – is decent work.Read more…
The fight for dignity and security for older workers
Increasing numbers of people are working into later life but too many are being forced out of work due to ill health and consigned to poverty. We cannot allow this to continue and change needs to…Read more…
How can we make the remote working revolution less middle class?
What can be done to make sure that the Welsh Government’s commitment to supporting more remote working doesn’t end up re-enforcing inequalities in the labour market.Read more…
The trade union movement is growing – and gaining big wins for our members.
An article in the Financial Times this week attracted a fair amount of attention from within the trade union movement.Read more…