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…
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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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Consistent support for human rights includes Palestinian rights
The theme of the 2022 UN International Day of Peace is End Racism. Build Peace. The situation in Palestine shows clearly how racism and conflict are fundamentally interrelated.
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Todays’ mini-budget delivered Robin Hood in reverse: tax cuts for the rich – pay cuts for working people
Kwasi Kwarteng, the latest Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, followed the pattern set by George Osborne: tax cuts for the rich and big business, pay cuts for everyone else.
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Urgent action needed to support bi workers
Bi Visibility Day is a chance to learn more about bi workers’ experiences and to call for change in our workplaces.
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Nine in ten of us feel our work has made our mental health worse – we need urgent changes in the workplace
Linsey Imms reveals shocking statistics from our recent mental health survey, and explains what we can do to make life better for all workers in Wales.
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What does Liz Truss’s energy plan mean for workers?
Families will still pay almost twice as much this year as they did last year – in addition to sky-rocketing prices for other goods and services.
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Commonwealth Games – A progressive deal for workers
Racism is rife in UK workplaces
It’s time for unions to put the fight against racism at the heart of organising, bargaining and campaigning work. We must build solidarity among working people and show that the debates about class and race in modern Britain are fundamentally linked.
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We need a £15 minimum wage. This is how to get there
As workers struggle to stay afloat, it is clear that higher wages have to be at the heart of the UK’s economic strategy. We need to transition the economy to high-wage, high-skilled and secure jobs. And shift our economic model away from a reliance on …Read more…
¡Viva La Educación!
British and Cuban trade unions enjoy a long history of warm relations and solidarity. In the education sector inter-union contact is especially fruitful.
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