It was great to attend Labour conference in Liverpool this week - the party’s first in power in 15 years. As I said at Congress, we are not going to agree with this government on everything. We can ...

This report is intended to raise awareness of the experience of workers and trade unions when artificial intelligence (AI) is used by employers to carry out people-management functions, and to ...

This report is vital to draw attention to people who have fallen out of work, are underemployed, struggling to remain in or return to work because of the virus. If we do not take urgent action to ...

Introduction The last few weeks have seen an unprecedented change in the economic situation of the UK. Since the Prime Minister announced a full ‘lockdown’ on the 23rd March, economic activity in the ...

On 7 June, 1968 after a pay regrade that saw sewing machinists classed as “unskilled labour”, 187 of those machinists – all women – decided to walk out. Why? Because they’d been unfairly graded as a ...

The introduction of Universal Credit is one of the most significant social security reforms in recent decades. Universal Credit combines six benefits and is expected to cover around 7 million people ...

newsMore than half (52%) of women, and nearly two-thirds (63%) of women aged 18-24 years old, said they have experienced sexual harassment at work, according to a new research from the TUC in ...

A win for our right to strike The government has committed to formally repeal the Minimum Service Levels Act. Labour has told all public sector employers to ignore the Minimum Service Levels Act. And ...

1 The TUC uses the term ‘Black workers’ to indicate people of colour with a shared history. ‘Black’ is used in a broad political and inclusive sense to describe people in the UK who have suffered from ...

The TUC is deeply concerned by the escalating violence and unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza and Israel. We support the UN call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Middle East and ...

This joint report by the TUC and ROTA shows that disproportionate numbers of Black and minority ethnic (BME) workers are on zero-hours contracts. BME women are particularly likely to be on zero-hours ...

The TUC has been conducting a four-year project on the use of AI in the employment relationship, assisted by a trade union working group (The TUC AI Working Group).