What can you do?

Solidarity is a key value of trade unionism, and developing global solidarity is one of the TUC's strategic objectives.

The TUC wants unions and union members to take action to support our sisters and brothers around the world. On this page you can find links to the following:

  • donating money and raising funds in solidarity with trade unionists in need through TUC Aid;
  • support for workers' struggles around the world - including industrial disputes;
  • protesting about abuses of trade union and other human rights in other countries; and
  • campaigning for global economic justice - core labour standards, and end to debt, trade justice and fairness, more and better aid, and quality public services.

The most recent documents available on this subject are:

Tell Debenhams and GAP to back Bangladesh safety plan

Over 30 major retailers have signed a significant new union-backed safety accord for Bangladeshi textile workers. However Debenhams and GAP are still holding back from signing. Please help us ask them to change their mind.

20 May 2013
URGENT ACTION: Lift the blockade of Gaza

WIth a ceasefire in place, call on the UK government to do all that it can to lift the blockade and end the suffering of Gaza's people. Sign Oxfam's urgent action.

26 November 2012
URGENT ACTION: Tell Bahrain to free Mahdi and Jalila!

Mahdi Abu Dheeb and Jalila al-Salman, the leaders of the Bahraini Teachers' Association, have just lost their appeal against the unjust sentences against them. Please sign the labourstart petition calling on the Bahraini government to release these p...

29 October 2012
ACT NOW! Help the Kenyan trade unionist fined for backing his members on strike

The TUC is backing a global union appeal to help pay a fine and other legal costs imposed on Kenyan union leader Francis Atwoli for backing his members on strike. The Going to Work website provides the chance to make individual donations through Pay-...

PDF version available for download
25 October 2012
TUC Aid supporting farmers in Gaza

TUC Aid is supporting the development of a nursery in the Gaza strip to help some of the poorest families secure enough food and improve their incomes.

1 October 2012
TUC Aid: Help Burma's workers build a union movement

For the first time in generations workers in Burma are now free to form trade unions. But they are starting from scratch in a country slowly emerging from dictatorship and extreme poverty. Please help them by supporting TUC Aid's Burma Appeal.

14 August 2012



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