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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Workers actually have significant leverage on AI right now
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 growth of trade union membership in the UK – a focus on TUC London, East and South East
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…
Nigerian Government investigated for anti-union interference
2024 arrest of NLC President on his way to TUC Congress raised with UN workers’ rights watchdog
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Real devolution puts working people at the heart of decision making
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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Equality doesn’t end at the workplace door
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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Funding a cut in energy bills with a bank tax
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…
Why does Reform UK want to rip up workers’ rights? Follow the money
Reform UK invited unions to their conference, so we showed up to remind workers that Reform is not on their side. Last week, we held two major campaign actions outside the Reform Party conference in Birmingham to expose their links to offshore billiona…Read more…
Unions are building a fairer Britain, pushing for unity over division
The TUC Equality Audit, published every two years, is an essential yardstick and benchmarking tool with which we can measure our collective efforts. This year’s equality audit focuses on what steps unions have taken in the last four years to prom…Read more…
Welcome to TUC Congress 2026!
A great deal has happened since last year. We have seen a new prime minister enter Downing Street. We have witnessed conflict, instability and uncertainty on the international stage. And, of course, the ridiculous spectacle of Nigel Farage taking on a …Read more…
‘Dealing with a many-headed hydra’
Continuing on the fighting the far right theme, Unite delegate Pritpal Singh-Atwal moved the next motion which had come from the TUC Black Workers Conference, on behalf of Unite. Pritpal opened his moving speech by referring to the gains in electoral support of far and hard right parties, not just here, but across Europe and […]
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‘A powerful counterbalance’
Welcome to Unite Live’s coverage of this year’s TUC Congress in Brighton, running from Sunday September 13 to Wednesday September 16. We’ll bring you all the highlights and as many of the contributions as we can, made by your Unite delegates to the conference. Opening the conference, (after all the customary welcome speeches) was the […]
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A global breakthrough for platform workers: what the new ILO Convention means
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…
Workers actually have significant leverage on AI right now
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 growth of trade union membership in the UK – a focus on TUC London, East and South East
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…
Nigerian Government investigated for anti-union interference
2024 arrest of NLC President on his way to TUC Congress raised with UN workers’ rights watchdog
Read more…
Real devolution puts working people at the heart of decision making
Devolution is key if Burnham wants to remake Britain. But it must be delivered with working people, not merely forced upon them.
Read more…
Equality doesn’t end at the workplace door
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…
Funding a cut in energy bills with a bank tax
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…
Why does Reform UK want to rip up workers’ rights? Follow the money
Reform UK invited unions to their conference, so we showed up to remind workers that Reform is not on their side. Last week, we held two major campaign actions outside the Reform Party conference in Birmingham to expose their links to offshore billiona…Read more…