trade union Articles

The TUC today released a report – ‘Still just a bit of banter?’ – about sexual harassment in the workplace, showing that more than half of all women have experienced sexual harassment at work. Alarmingly, for respondents aged 18-24, this rose to around two-thirds...

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...

The trade union bill, currently going through the House of Lords does more than it says on the tin. It has been presented as an opportunity to modernise industrial relations and to give members a greater influence within their unions. Its outcome, if unamended will...

The trade union bill must be defeated The record books will show that this government’s first major act of parliament has to been to attack the right to strike – a fundamental British liberty. The trade union bill is the biggest threat to unions and collective...