TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady has co-signed a letter in the Sunday Telegraph today building on the joint statement that she made with CBI Director-General Carolyn Fairbairn last week, calling on the government to guarantee that EU migrants already in the UK can stay no matter what…Read more…
What next after the Brexit vote? Defend workers’ rights
Many people are asking what they can do next, after the UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the European Union. The TUC doesn’t think that we can or should challenge the result of the referendum….Read more…
The sort of company the UK shouldn’t want to keep at the ILO
The annual conference of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) is taking place during the first half of June in Geneva, and the TUC’s delegate Stephen Russell has already blogged on the…Read more…
EU referendum campaign: hearing from women at last
Over the last week, a new group of voters has risen to some sort of prominence in the EU referendum campaign, despite previously being pretty much ignored in the coverage of the increasingly febrile…Read more…
Building workplaces fit for the future
Jeremy Corbyn has rightly identified the issues that we’re fighting to eliminate each and every day – massive wage disparity between those at the top and the bottom, poverty pay and insecure work….Read more…
Lawyers confirm #Brexit would put your rights at work at risk
Today GQ Employment Law LLP has issued a report endorsing TUC concerns that Brexit could endanger rights at work. The ’boutique’ law firm suggests that weekly working time limits could well be under threat, along with overtime pay, and requirements to consult before mass…Read more…
Wanted: Mike Ashley – Is this high noon for Sports Direct?
A showdown is brewing between billionaire Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley, and MPs investigating mistreatment of workers in his sportswear empire. The BIS Select Committee have been trying to…Read more…
EU referendum campaign begins: let’s put workers first
This morning an edited version of this piece was in the Sunday Mirror, with the alternative point of view put by Michael Gove MP. His remark that “membership of the EU prevents us being able to…Read more…
International migrants day 2015: European unions call for refugee employment rights
The TUC has joined other unions around Europe to mark International Migrants Day (18 Dec) by calling for measures to get refugees integrated into the workplace, rather than left in limbo in camps or on benefits – or worse. The TUC made this call ahead of an international conference in Zagreb,…Read more…
Are you a Non Safe Festive Worker?
Christmas parties at work are a great chance to let our hair down, and to see a different side of the people we spend more time with than our own families. But they can also wreck the work…Read more…
Shrink the gender pay gap: Join a union #PayGapPledge
Today is Equal Pay Day, the day that the average woman stops earning compared to the average man because of the gender pay gap. To mark the day, the TUC has publicised figures highlighting what a…Read more…
Tricks but no treats
Join us on Monday to stop this nightmare that is the Trade Union Bill
The article Tricks but no treats first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Join us in Manchester
On Sunday, it will be just five weeks to the TUC’s demonstration in Manchester marking the opening of the Tory party conference
The article Join us in Manchester first appeared on the UNISON site.Read more…
Strike figures show there’s no justification for the Trade Union Bill
The official statistics on work days lost to strike action in the UK are out today, and they show an increase in the number of strikes. In all, 788,000 days of industrial action took place in 2014….Read more…
Mental Health – more honesty please
Last week was mental health awareness week and it is absolutely right that we need to take the time to think deeply about mental health and what we can do to better support people who are struggling,…Read more…
Mental health and the working life #MHAW15
Being a young teacher has it challenges, four in 10 ‘quit’ within a year. But what happens when you are feeling so low and helpless that you contemplate ending it all?Read more…
May Day 2015: Justice at work
Today is International Workers’ Day, the first of May. Since 1890, May Day has seen trades unionists come together to celebrate the core values that we stand for. It’s a day for us to strengthen our…Read more…
Employment rights and unions under fire
The last few years have put the work rights of ordinary people in the UK under real threat. We’ve seen cuts in maternity leave rights, slashed protection from unfair dismissals, and new up…Read more…
Shared Parental Leave: baby steps towards more flexible childcare
Shared parental leave rules designed to help new parents and adopters balance work and caring responsibilities came into effect on Sunday (5 April). But how much difference will they really make?…Read more…
A bit more than a ban on ‘zero hours abuse’
There was a lot in the Labour Party’s Manifesto for Work that echoes things unions have been calling for for a long time now.Read more…