TUC Articles

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...

Today, 18 April 2016, in the houses of parliament the energy giant E-On will be the first United Kingdom company to sign up to the Trades Union Congress’ Dying to Work charter, committing it, as an employer, to supporting workers diagnosed with terminal illness. The...

During this week, tens of thousands of trade union activists and members will be outwardly celebrating the role of unions up and down the country. We are doing so to show trade union members and non-trade union members just how important it is to have trade unions and...