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4 min read 2022-05-22 21:00:47

Unions hit out at Grant Shapps’ plans to block industrial action

Government plans for a minimum staffing requirement during rail strikes have been slammed as “desperate nonsense”. Unions reacted with anger to

2 min read 2021-12-23 07:01:50

New analysis from the TUC has revealed that thousands of key workers, including those working to combat the surge in Covid cases over the festive

5 min read 2021-12-21 17:00:02

Christmas is coming, but people across the country are anxious. We are waiting to hear whether our festive plans will be cancelled, or rather which

2 min read 2021-12-09 14:30:17

// House of Fraser, Schuh and Waterstones have broken minimum wage laws // The retailers are among more than 200 employers named by the

3 min read 2021-12-06 07:01:12

Analysis by the TUC has found that 647,000 workers in the hospitality, retail, arts and entertainment sectors – industries key to Christmas

2 min read 2021-02-17 17:49:44

The shielding list in England is growing: 1.7 million people are being added to the 2.3 million already classed as clinically extremely vulnerable,

2 min read 2021-02-10 15:00:42

Public sector workers have gone the extra mile again and again during this pandemic. Just think of our amazing NHS and social care staff who have

2 min read 2021-01-26 19:13:03

The TUC has urged Rishi Sunak to urgently extend the furlough scheme amid rising unemployment as “millions of people’s jobs hang in the

3 min read 2021-01-14 23:57:58

71 per cent of working mums who have applied for furlough following the latest school closures have had their requests turned down, according to a

3 min read 2021-01-07 17:00:06

Labour leader Keir Starmer, deputy Angela Rayner and trade union leader Frances O’Grady have written to party and Trades Union Congress members

6 min read 2020-12-19 18:43:47

Frances O’Grady, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, has been one of the key figures in the news and behind the scenes of the

3 min read 2020-11-24 18:51:03

Anneliese Dodds has criticised the Chancellor and argued that he is “choking off any chance of recovery” from the pandemic following reports that

2 min read 2020-11-24 07:01:07

The TUC has urged the government to use its spending review this week to U-turn on the decision to scrap support for the Union Learning Fund after a

6 min read 2020-11-22 17:42:13

The Andrew Marr Show Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds did not pledge Labour’s unconditional support for new Covid restrictions, said a public

2 min read 2020-11-03 23:56:23

The UK’s worst-paid workers were more than 20 times more likely to be furloughed on reduced pay than the highest earners, data has shown. More than