Trade unions Articles

It is nauseating to watch people who have been in the Labour party for a matter of months, and who probably didn’t vote Labour last year, denouncing the GMB, Britain’s third biggest trade union, for backing Owen Smith. The manner of their denunciation follows the...

Every year Usdaw, the shopworkers’ union, organises a campaign to raise awareness of the pressures members are under when they are juggling work with looking after someone. This year’s campaign day is being held today, Wednesday 18 May, and it is all about carers,...

Each year on 28 April, International Workers’ Memorial Day, we in the European Trade Union Confederation and our affiliated unions count the cost of another 12 months of dangerous working conditions and inadequate safety precautions. In 2012 (the last time the...

Workers’ Memorial Day is an opportunity for us to remember those who have gone to work, never to return home again. A friend of mine Steve, and I, were 17-year-old apprentices at the Royal Mail in 1987. Steve’s dad also worked there as a HGV driver and had done so for...