Heart Unions Articles

The European Trade Union Confederation are determined to ensure that British workers do not pay the price of Brexit, argues Esther Lynch Unions are about uniting people. Alone we may be powerless but together, organised in our unions we can achieve great things. Being...

Heart Unions week presents us with an opportunity to shape the trade union movement of tomorrow, writes Lee Barron Over the past week, tens of thousands of trade union members and activists have been joining together to celebrate the positive impact unions have on...

I began my career in the trade union movement in the late 1980s, when the Conservative governments of the time presented parliament with a new piece of restrictive anti-union legislation every 18 months. A huge amount of effort was expended by the Trades Union...

It is hardly uncommon for trade unions to get bad press. Some within government and the media are keen to paint us as constantly at being at odds with employers and the public. They focus on the inconvenience of strikes and portray us as antagonistic. This is the...