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Employment Rights Act

The Employment Rights Act introduces major reforms to UK employment law, with changes being implemented in stages from December 2025 through to 2027.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we work and, alongside boosting productivity, offers an opportunity to improve working lives. The TUC believes we are now at a crucial moment in the AI-driven technological workplace revolution.

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Lessons from education unions building power on AI

In partnership with nine unions, Connected by Data and the TUC worked across 7 months on an ‘action learning’ programme to test how to catalyse the movement’s capacity to understand, negotiate and advocate on AI from worker’s perspectives.

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Building a pro-worker AI innovation strategy

A pro-worker AI innovation strategy for the UK should use every lever to shape technology towards good jobs, resilient public services and to drive socially useful innovation – for now and the future, at home and abroad.

Artificial Intelligence (Regulation and Employment Rights) Bill

This paper sets out the background to the TUC Artificial Intelligence (Employment and Regulation) Bill, the multi-stakeholder process behind the drafting, why the Bill is needed, and how it could improve the rights of working people.  

AI guides for union officers and reps

Guides for union officers and reps

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These reports are part of the TUC project on AI and the employment relationship.

The AI Bill Project

The TUC has been conducting a four-year project on the use of AI in the employment relationship, assisted by a trade union working group (The TUC AI Working Group).

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Building educator power to shape AI

Ten unions are working together to ensure AI and EdTech is shaped by millions of support staff, teachers, leaders and specialists in a project by the TUC and Connected by Data.

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Artificial intelligence, business and the future of the workforce

The rapid adoption of AI in the workplace sits at the heart of our core mission to protect and advance the interests of working people. As AI reshapes tasks, job roles, pay structures and working conditions across virtually every sector of the economy, the TUC has both the representational mandate and the practical expertise – drawn from our member unions operating across diverse industries – to speak to the real-world impacts these technologies are having on workers.

Workers actually have significant leverage on AI right now

In talk of the ‘AI transformation’ workers are often cast as the subjects or even victims of change. They are to be trained, maybe protected or perhaps just discarded. It is true that workers face instability. But two dynamics are playing out in a way that is giving workers, representatives and allies significant leverage right now.

Adam Cantwell-Corn - 14 Jul 2026

Lessons from education unions building power on AI

In partnership with nine unions, Connected by Data and the TUC worked across 7 months on an ‘action learning’ programme to test how to catalyse the movement’s capacity to understand, negotiate and advocate on AI from worker’s perspectives.

Paul Nowak's speech at The Past We Inherit, The Future We Build event on AI in Northumberland

Speaking at an AI conference in Blyth on 6th February 2026, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak set out the need for a pro-worker strategy for AI.

Building educator power to shape AI

Ten unions are working together to ensure AI and EdTech is shaped by millions of support staff, teachers, leaders and specialists in a project by the TUC and Connected by Data.

An urgent call for educator voice in AI and EdTech from 10 unions

A joint statement from AEP, EIS, GMB, NAHT, NASUWT, NEU, UCAC, UCU, UNISON and Unite.

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