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The TUC has a history of developing analysis and research to inform economic and employment-related issues.

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Government inaction has left 3.7 million people in insecure work. We need a new approach that restores power to workers to negotiate better rights.

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Coronavirus - Guidance for unions

This guide is for union reps - understanding coronavirus and workplace issues, employer negotiations and how best protect the workforce

Coronavirus - Guidance for unions

1 in 5 key worker households have children living in poverty

New TUC analysis

Changing the world of work for good

We believe in standing up and joining together to make the working world a better place

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Bank of England

Workers unite to resist farcical economic policy

UK set for “worst real wage squeeze” in the G7

Cost of summer childcare is “pushing families to the edge"

thermometer

Too hot, too cold: How to protect workers from extreme temperatures, and fight climate change

What we're saying

MPs must vote down “pernicious” anti-union laws which threaten public safety

New laws are a “brazen attack” on workers’ ability to bargain for higher wages at a time when millions are struggling to make ends meet, says TUC

Building worker power

Essays on collective rights 20 years after the Wilson and Palmer case established the right to be represented by a trade union

Nurses and paramedics will suffer real-terms pay cut of over £1,000 this year

Latest below-inflation award for NHS staff comes after a “brutal decade of pay cuts and freezes”

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