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Trade Unions

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
Yesterday

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.’

A photo of the CEO of McDonald's Alistair Macrow speaking at the Business and Trade Select Committee
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McDonald’s boss in meltdown as 1 in 2 outlets face legal action

Olivia Barber
7 January, 2025

‘Has McDonald’s basically now become a predator’s paradise?’

A photo of doctors on a picket line striking for higher pay.
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Trade unions say proposed pay increase is an ‘insult’ to millions of public sector workers

Olivia Barber
11 December, 2024

Unison, the BMA, Unite and the NEU have all said a 2.8% pay rise next year isn’t enough

A photo of a woman with a broken arm
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Trade unions call on government to act on manifesto promise to strengthen statutory sick pay

Olivia Barber
9 December, 2024

Union leaders stress that
statutory sick pay in the UK is ‘set at one of the lowest levels in the industrialised world’

Sharon Graham speaking on the Winter Fuel Allowance motion at Labour Conference
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Sharon Graham reveals the astonishing amount of money Unite has won for workers in last two years

Chris Jarvis
28 November, 2024

Absolutely huge sums have been put in workers’ pockets

Chancellor Rachel Reeves with the budget briefcase
News

How trade unions responded to the budget

Chris Jarvis
30 October, 2024

“Today’s budget is a vital first step towards the growth, jobs and living standards working people desperately need.”

A placard with text reading "There is no planet B"
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TUC agrees radical proposals to tackle climate crisis

Chris Jarvis
11 September, 2024

Delegates at TUC Congress voted for a motion which called for ‘a rapid and just transition away from fossil fuels to prevent catastrophic climate breakdown’.

A train at a platform
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TUC commends government plans for rail nationalisation but calls for Labour to go further on public transport

Chris Jarvis
9 September, 2024

Delegates called for the buses to be taken into public ownership too

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