Good to see the Low Pay Commission pushing back - with evidence and data - against lazy narratives around the minimum wage, youth unemployment and the hospitality sector. www.ft.com/content/6fcd...

In 2023, the Conservatives cut the bank surcharge tax from 8% to 3%. Restoring this to 8% would raise £9 billion over the next four years. Last year, banks made over £35 billion in profits, with average bonuses of £20,000. It's time for banks to pay their fair share.

Some reflections for international women's day. Solidarity sisters. www.lbc.co.uk/article/epst...

Our hearts are with our union brother Alex Jeffrey Pretti’s loved ones. America’s unions demand that ICE leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt and that local authorities conduct a full, transparent investigation that will lead to accountability.

The Trump admin’s reckless ICE operations are trampling on working people’s fundamental rights and freedoms. We demand that ICE stop these dangerous operations and leave our communities and workplaces before even more innocent people are hurt or killed. https://bit.ly/4sFzgGL

➡️ Banning exploitative zero hours contracts ➡️ Sick pay for all from day one ➡️ Expanding paternity, parental & bereavement leave ➡️ Strengthening protections for pregnant women, whistle-blowers and victims of sexual harassment ➡️ Making flexible working the default ➡️ Repealing Tory anti-union laws

🚨BREAKING: Employment Rights Bill passes in the House of Lords and will become law. This is an historic day for working people across the country, and the trade unions who represent them.

Best Christmas present ever. So many amazing people have worked to get this over the line, and deliver the biggest upgrade to workers rights I. A generation. A lot more to do, but a very good day. www.tuc.org.uk/news/tuc-hai...

"I don't think anyone should take lectures from a government that presided over a decade and a half of austerity about the state of our public services" #BBCQT

@tuc.org.uk joins @ituc.bsky.social in condemning the 'violent Israeli raid' on PGFTU offices in Nablus

A much needed corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "welfare is out of control" narrative, drawing on research by my colleague @benbgeiger.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/ee67...

TikTok is getting rid of the London staff who keep you safe from harmful, misleading and illegal content. When did they announce the job cuts? Eight days before those employees were due to vote on unionising. We’ve signed an open letter with @tuc.org.uk and @cwunews.bsky.social:

Hundreds of content moderators are being laid off by TikTok. Now they're unionising and speaking out. @cwunews.bsky.social

The whole of our Congress showing solidarity with Palestine after powerful speech from Shaher Saed, leader of the Palestinian trade union movement

Make no mistake, let there be no doubt. We were elected to deliver this Employment Rights Bill and that is what we will do. We won’t accept any watering down by the Lords. In full. No ifs, no buts.

New @tuc.org.uk report calls for pro-worker AI innovation strategy www.tuc.org.uk/research-ana...

Our new report on how we can shape the AI that gets developed and how it came be used, covered here www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Appalled to read this. A critical funder of UK social and fiscal policy research has just been summarily dumped, along with its key staff and trustees. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Surprised & saddened to see this happen to Abrdn Financial Fairness Trust - they have supported vital work on debt, pensions, tax & much else. www.thetimes.com/article/7d69...

BREAKING 🚨 | Unions call for Thames Water to be brought into full public ownership. @unitetheunion.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @gmb.org.uk

Rebuilding through glass: how better windows could spark a UK industry revival @tuc.org.uk www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/rebuil...

Very interesting.

Time to boost workers' data rights to shed a light on the algorithms that determine their work and pay. UK Uber drivers’ earnings cut after secretive algorithm changes www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Shoulder to shoulder in Newcastle. @drjogrady.bsky.social with @kategobell.bsky.social assistant general secretary @tuc.org.uk standing strong. The whole movement has our back✊

The TUC is proud to have supported this complaint at the International Labour Organisation. We have serious concerns about migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, including those involved in preparing for the 2034 World Cup.

On this underfunding: an FOI sent by the TUC found that the government spent just £385m on the entire 18 months of the Test and Trace Support Payment Scheme. For context, this isn’t even half of what it spent on Eat Out To Help Out, which lasted just a month. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Guess what: boosting workers' rights is popular www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...

Time for a better deal at work.

After being beefed-up by significant amendments covering areas from statutory sick pay to strike ballot notification, the Employment Rights Bill has cleared the House of Commons. Next step the Lords. New blog: www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/new-pr...

Co-op pay award – #Usdaw welcomes an above-inflation increase and a commitment to the Real Living Wage www.usdaw.org.uk/latest-news/...

The UK is among the worst nations in Europe for child poverty. In the UK, 11% of 15-year-olds reported they had skipped a meal in 2022 because there wasn't enough money to buy food. In the Netherlands and Finland, this number was 3%.

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The creative industries is a jewel in the crown of the UK economy and the clock is ticking. Without proper guardrails put in place, rapacious tech bosses will continue to cash in on creatives’ work without their consent.

✅ Fair pay for creative work when used to train AI models ✅ New likeness rights - avoiding deep fakes without permission ✅ Stronger rights for author attributes ✅ Independent AI regulator

Our new AI manifesto calls for: ✅ A new taskforce established bringing together creative workers, unions, technologists and government ✅ Transparency of training data ✅ Citing sources and labelling AI generated content ✅ An opt in system to protect creative work

How do we protect the creative industries from the threat of AI? Here's how: 👇

Transparency on AI training, opt in for creative workers and fair pay when work used. Toughen UK worker rights bill to curb ‘rogue employers’, MPs say - on.ft.com/43l7JAe via @FT

@houseofcommons.parliament.uk Business and Trade Committee report on Employment Rights Bill published. Chair @liambyrnemp.bsky.social “we want strategic changes to the Bill to help make sure Britain’s best firms can no longer be undercut by rogue companies" committees.parliament.uk/committee/36...

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

Some context on strong real pay figures. Today's new data shows real weekly pay up by 3.4%, which is good. The recent strong growth comes after the longest pay squeeze in living memory - real weekly wages are still only just above 2008 levels. Strong real pay growth much needed.

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Gig economy firms warned by UK government they may be operating illegally www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The country voted for change last summer and for a new deal for working people. Bidfood’s attack on the rights of their workers shows just how much it’s needed. GMB members at Bidfood will have the full support of their union in facing down these threats.

Looking forward to this