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This week has seen unions get more rights around elections and strike votes, with the government overturning a decades-old ban on unions voting by any other means than post. From 25 August 2026, we can now consult our members in ways that the majority of them would expect from us – using email, SMS or … Continue reading How ready are our union branches for electronic balloting?
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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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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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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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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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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…
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…
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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At a time when Reform UK is calling for equality protections to be rolled back and some Reform-led councils are reducing visible support for LGBT+ communities, the public continues to back equality protections and LGBT+ inclusion.
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Working people are struggling to pay their bills, while banks make billions in windfall profits and pay out their biggest bonuses in years. It’s time they contributed their fair share, and that money was used to cut energy bills for everyone on low and…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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
2024 arrest of NLC President on his way to TUC Congress raised with UN workers’ rights watchdog
Read more…
Devolution is key if Burnham wants to remake Britain. But it must be delivered with working people, not merely forced upon them.
Read more…
At a time when Reform UK is calling for equality protections to be rolled back and some Reform-led councils are reducing visible support for LGBT+ communities, the public continues to back equality protections and LGBT+ inclusion.
Read more…