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Workers at the Isle of Wight’s RNLI Inshore Lifeboat Centre have taken a second day of strike in their ongoing campaign to protect jobs and skills on the island, and get a fair deal from the charity. Placards and banners on the picket line spell out the frustration of workers at the boat yard in […]
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The government’s decision to bring around 2,000 facilities co-workers back in-house is a significant victory for workers and public services.
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Last month, as part of the Our Work Matters campaign, seven brilliant public sector workers met with Chris Ward, the minister in charge of the government’s insourcing commitments.
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A legacy worth rebuilding in a changing world of work. As unionlearn reaches its 20-year milestone, working people are navigating one of the biggest transformations in jobs for a generation.
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At this year’s TUC Disabled Workers Conference, held at the Bournemouth International Centre on 19–20 May 2026, over 250 delegates came together to debate some of the most pressing issues facing disabled people today.
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While technological and industrial changes are not new, we all know that working people are living through one of the biggest changes to jobs in a generation or more.
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Platform workers are for the first time the subject of a global labour standard following the adoption of the Decent Work in the Platform Economy Convention at the 114th International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva.
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The official statistics published in May showed a big rise in trade union membership in the UK between 2024 and 2025. We at the TUC rightly celebrated the increase of 192,000 members to 6.57 million. Read the TUC’s excellent blog about the membership f…Read more…
In talk of the ‘AI transformation’ workers are often cast as the subjects or even victims of change. They are to be trained, maybe protected or perhaps just discarded. It is true that workers face instability. But two dynamics are playing out in a way …Read more…
2024 arrest of NLC President on his way to TUC Congress raised with UN workers’ rights watchdog
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Devolution is key if Burnham wants to remake Britain. But it must be delivered with working people, not merely forced upon them.
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The government’s decision to bring around 2,000 facilities co-workers back in-house is a significant victory for workers and public services.
Read more…
Last month, as part of the Our Work Matters campaign, seven brilliant public sector workers met with Chris Ward, the minister in charge of the government’s insourcing commitments.
Read more…
A legacy worth rebuilding in a changing world of work. As unionlearn reaches its 20-year milestone, working people are navigating one of the biggest transformations in jobs for a generation.
Read more…
While technological and industrial changes are not new, we all know that working people are living through one of the biggest changes to jobs in a generation or more.
Read more…
Platform workers are for the first time the subject of a global labour standard following the adoption of the Decent Work in the Platform Economy Convention at the 114th International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva.
Read more…
At this year’s TUC Disabled Workers Conference, held at the Bournemouth International Centre on 19–20 May 2026, over 250 delegates came together to debate some of the most pressing issues facing disabled people today.
Read more…
In talk of the ‘AI transformation’ workers are often cast as the subjects or even victims of change. They are to be trained, maybe protected or perhaps just discarded. It is true that workers face instability. But two dynamics are playing out in a way …Read more…
2024 arrest of NLC President on his way to TUC Congress raised with UN workers’ rights watchdog
Read more…
The official statistics published in May showed a big rise in trade union membership in the UK between 2024 and 2025. We at the TUC rightly celebrated the increase of 192,000 members to 6.57 million. Read the TUC’s excellent blog about the membership f…Read more…