Equal pay

The TUC has produced a series of films about the fight for equal pay. They include oral history interviews with women and union representatives involved in some of the major equal pay cases since 1968. The films were made by two well-known film directors, Sarah Boston and Jenny Morgan, and jointly funded by the TUC, the Wainwright Trust and the European Social Fund.

Both the short and long versions of all the films shown on the website, plus a longer film on the history of the fight for equal pay - The Equal Pay Story : scenes from a turbulent history - are available on DVD from TUC Publications.

The most recent documents available on this subject are:

The city is failing to shed its impenetrable glass ceiling, says TUC
Commenting on the Equality and Human Rights Commission report into the gender pay gap in the financial sector published today (Thursday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
9 April 2009

Negotiating Gender, Race and Class - the Way Forward
In 2008, the TUC Race Relations Committee and Women's Committee organised a one-day seminar for black women trade union activists. The seminar set out to discuss issues that black women face in the labour market, prioritise the issues that trade unions need to raise on their behalf and create a trade union agenda that represents and speaks on behalf of black women workers. This new TUC report, ‘Negotiating Gender, Race and Class' sets out to capture the issues discussed, and the recommendations made, by participants.
30 March 2009

Brendan Barber speech to TUC Women's Conference 2009
This economic crisis was created by a small number of male bankers; and ordinary women should not be made to pay the penalty for their recklessness.
12 March 2009

Government U-turn on flexible working will undermine child poverty pledge
Delaying the extension of flexible working rights and maternity pay will undermine Government commitments to close the gender pay gap and end child poverty, the TUC warns as it opens the annual TUC Women's conference in Scarborough today (Wednesday).
11 March 2009

Equality Bill and flexible working extension will help deliver fairness at work
Welcoming the Equality Bill in the Queen's Speech today (Wednesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: “With the gender pay gap moving in the wrong direction, the Equality Bill is much needed. The decision to press ahead with extending the right to request flexible working means that ministers have come to the obvious conclusion that a mere right to request does not threaten a single job.
3 December 2008

Gender pay gap increase is an injustice for women and men, says Wales TUC
Responding to the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) today (Friday), which shows that in Wales the full-time gender pay gap has increased substantially to 12.7 per cent and the part-time gender pay gap to 33.7 per cent, Wales TUC General Secretary Martin Mansfield said:
14 November 2008

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