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Trade Unions

A photo of doctors on a picket line striking for higher pay.
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Resident doctors strikes: Everything you need to know

Chris Jarvis
10 November, 2025 (4 weeks ago)

This is why and when doctors will be on strike

Nigel Farage making his speech at Reform Party conference 2025
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Nigel Farage condemned over hints Reform would cut public sector pensions

Olivia Barber
3 November, 2025

Farage also ruled out protecting the state pension triple lock

FBU general secretary Steve Wright speaking at tuc congress
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Labour “not moving fast enough” to rebuild public services, FBU general secretary says

Chris Jarvis
10 September, 2025

Steve Wright told Left Foot Forward that the government’s record is ‘not good’

A Unite delegate speaking on an equal pay motion
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TUC votes to support expansion of equal pay legislation

Chris Jarvis
9 September, 2025

The motion called for LGBT+ pay audits

Zack Polanski speaking at Green Party conference
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Exclusive: Zack Polanski wants trade unions to affiliate to Green Party

Chris Jarvis
9 September, 2025

‘The Labour Party as a party of change is beyond dead’

Student protesters
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TUC votes to campaign for a national education service and the abolition of tuition fees

Chris Jarvis
7 September, 2025

Trade unionists have backed a national education service ‘free at the point of use from cradle to grave’

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National Highways’ chief gets big pay rise as roads crumble and workers struggle

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
10 August, 2025

“As road users and taxpayers look for tangible improvements in return for public funding, the figures from National Highways are certain to prompt reflection about where the balance lies between reward and responsibility.”

A photo of Nigel Farage wearing a headset as he appears on LBC Radio
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UK’s largest trade union saw membership jump by 200% in 10 councils won by Reform

Basit Mahmood
19 June, 2025

Nigel Farage’s party have also set made clear their intention cut back on expenditure in local authorities, setting up the DOGE unit, and Farage warning workers in a speech celebrating his party’s gains, to seek “alternative careers” if they worked on diversity or climate change initiatives.

Trade unions against hate, PCS union

HeartUnions Week: Labour’s Employment Rights Bill: We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to secure Workplace Rights

Maria Exall
12 February, 2025

The Employment Rights Bill is just the start. Every commitment must be enforced in workplaces, not just written into law. There can be no delays, no loopholes, and no backtracking.

A photo of GMB union members waving GMB flags at a protest or strike
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Amazon workers win full pay during warehouse closures

Olivia Barber
10 January, 2025

‘Now Amazon bosses have been left red faced as workers have forced them to end […] unfair employment practises.’

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