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14 May 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 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 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.

27 Apr 2020 Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Unions demand 'tough new safety measures' for workers before lockdown restrictions lifted

Unions are demanding "tough new measures" be put in place to protect workers returning to their jobs before coronavirus lockdown restrictions are lifted.

21 Apr 2020 Coronavirus

Hold public inquiry into ‘grotesque failure’ of PPE for health workers, unions urge

The TUC has called for a public inquiry into what it calls the “grotesque” failure to provide adequate personal protective equipment for frontline coronavirus workers.

20 Apr 2020 Coronavirus

Brits urged to join minute's silence for frontline workers killed by the coronavirus

People in Britain have been urged to join a minute's silence for all frontline workers killed during the coronavirus outbreak.