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Firefighters’ Union To Vote On Cutting Ties With The Labour Party

Exclusive: The Labour Party’s union link is at risk of weakening further as the left-wing firefighters’ union FBU is set to vote on disaffiliation from the party at a conference this week.

28 Apr Parliament

MPs accused of sexual misconduct should be banned from the parliamentary estate

It seems absurd that in 2022 we are asking if Parliament is a safe and welcoming place for women to work.

26 Apr Foreign affairs

The UK is a long way off from a truly worker-centred approach to trade

Today marks the final day of the trade summit in Aberdeen, where the UK and US government are.

18 Feb Coronavirus

Government Accused Of A "Cynical Gamble" With Vulnerable People's Lives By Ending Covid Isolation Rules

Unions representing six million workers in the UK have warned that lives are at risk if the government goes ahead with its plan to abandon Covid restrictions early.

11 Jan Coronavirus

Ministers Accused Of Hiding "Woeful" Lack Of Ex-Teachers Returning To Classrooms To Fill Covid Gaps

Labour has accused ministers of trying to hide what appears to be a scant response to the government's call for former teachers to return to the classroom to cover staff off sick with Covid-19.

22 Dec 2021 Social affairs

Trade unions are more vital than ever - so why is the government attacking them?

As 2022 begins, a pandemic is raging, nearly a million workers are on zero-hours contracts, two million workers have no right to sick pay and five million earn less than the real living wage. And yet the business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, is making imposing new red tape on unions his workplace priority – and quietly tabling new anti-union legislation in Parliament.

19 Oct 2021 Economy

Any genuine attempt to level up Britain must start with levelling up work

I lost count of how many times the promise to “level up” was repeated during Conservative Party conference. But despite all the hype and sloganeering, Boris Johnson and his government still don’t have a serious plan for raising living standards and tackling inequalities in Britain.

28 Sep 2021 Political parties

Senior Labour MPs Celebrate The Return Of "Mainstream" After Left Voices Sidelined

Senior Labour MPs were celebrating the return of “mainstream” voices to the party after the left lost influence on key Labour party groups.

09 Sep 2021 Social affairs

The NHS “Shouldn’t Be Used As Human Shield For Delivering Social Care” Says Unions Boss

The head of Britain’s trade unions, Frances O'Grady, has criticised Boris Johnson’s National Insurance rise, accusing him of using the NHS “as a human shield” to properly fund the care system.

14 May 2021 Economy

Ditching the Employment Bill exposes the chasm between Tory rhetoric and action

Government inaction means that millions of low paid and precarious workers who are entitled to protections have been abandoned to fight for their rights through the courts.

11 May 2021 Economy

Ditching Employment Bill From Queen’s Speech Shows Boris Johnson “Has No Plan For Working People”, Critics Say

Boris Johnson's decision to further delay planned legislation to improve workers’ rights post-Brexit has been heavily criticised by Labour, unions and business groups.

25 Mar 2021 Coronavirus

Artificial intelligence poses an inhuman risk to worker rights

This pandemic has transformed the way millions work. Many of us hadn’t even heard of Zoom until the crisis hit - now that we’re experts we sorely miss meeting colleagues face-to-face.

But the huge growth in remote working is not the only technological shift we have witnessed during Covid-19. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) at work has massively accelerated too – albeit under the radar.

30 Oct 2020 Economy

Ministers must do more to stop people from being plunged into hardship and mass unemployment

The TUC is calling for a three part approach; improve job support, fix our safety net and invest now in green infrastructure and public service jobs for our future prosperity.

28 Aug 2020 Political parties

Commons Speaker warned Parliament “risks failing in its duty of care” to staff over Tory MP accused of rape

Prospect trade union said an initial meeting with the Speaker “went nowhere near close to addressing [our] concerns”

10 Aug 2020 Coronavirus

Boris Johnson says teachers doing an ‘incredible job’ as union warns staff ‘losing patience’ with school reopening plan

Boris Johnson has praised the “incredible job” done by teachers to get children back in the classroom, after a major union said staff were “losing patience” with the Government.

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09 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

Unite’s Len McCluskey on chancellor’s summer statement

No gimmicks, no spin – people wanted serious action to protect their jobs and incomes and on a scale up to the enormous test before our country.

30 Jun 2020 Coronavirus

Boris Johnson says he wants a Roosevelt-style coronavirus recovery. If he’s serious he’ll give unions a seat at the table

A post Covid ‘New Deal’ could provide 1.24 million jobs – but it also needs to tackle systemic racism, youth unemployment and low pay, says the TUC boss.

14 May 2020 Coronavirus

Labour grandee Lord Blunkett says teachers’ unions ‘working against the interests of children’ in row over June reopening plan

Teaching unions opposed to the Government’s plan to get some primary schools back open on June 1 are “working against the interests of children”, former Labour education secretary Lord Blunkett has declared.

Mental health issues top of workers' lockdown concerns

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12 May 2020 Coronavirus

Mental health issues top of workers' lockdown concerns

A survey by Unite, the UK and Ireland’s largest union, has found that workers’ concerns about their mental health have increased dramatically since the lockdown began.

12 May 2020 Coronavirus

Class sizes capped at 15 as government eyes June return of primary schools amid union fury

Class sizes will be capped at 15 pupils under Government plans to reopen schools in June “at the earliest”.

11 May 2020 Coronavirus

The Breakfast Briefing: Back-to-work row, Boris’s Commons statement - and Nicola Sturgeon’s fury

Your essential guide to what’s moving in Westminster this morning from the PoliticsHome team

10 May 2020 Coronavirus

Unions warn they will tell workers to stay home unless safety demands are met

Four of the UK’s largest unions have warned they will tell their three million members to stay home unless the government commits to a health and safety overhaul.

09 May 2020 Coronavirus

Filipino Trade Unionist receives NASUWT International Solidarity Award

The NASUWT – the Teachers’ Union, has today presented its International Solidarity Award 2020 to Raymond Basilio, Secretary General of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) in the Philippines.

04 May 2020 Coronavirus

Coronavirus: unions warn they cannot support government back-to-work guidance ‘thrown together in a hurry’

Guidance aimed at getting some British firms back to work during the coronavirus pandemic appears to have been “thrown together in a hurry”, a major trade union has warned.