Young Workers' Conference

TUC Young Workers’ Conference will take place at the Double Tree by Hilton, Brighton, on 21-22 March 2026

Please note that this conference is not open to members of the public. All delegates to this conference must be nominated members of one of the TUC’s affiliated unions.

If you are interested in attending this event, please contact your union to request more information.

Information for your union's delegates, visitors, and conference observers

Delegation leads

If you are the delegation lead then please make sure we have your mobile phone number, we will use this to contact you if needed.

Key dates for delegates

If your union has nominated you to be a delegate at the 2026 TUC Young Workers’ Conference, here is what you can expect from the TUC:

19 December 2025: Your union should have submitted your name to the TUC by this date.
w/c 5 January 2026: The TUC will email you a link to register. If you do not receive this, please email your union contact to ensure that you have been nominated to be a delegate
2 February 2026: This is the deadline for you to complete your individual registration. Please note that this is a two-stage process. You will be sent a monitoring form first, at the end of which is a link to the final registration form.
w/c 9 March 2026: The TUC will email all attendees with a link to the final conference documents, including the agenda, nominees to the Young Workers Forum and the conference guide.

If you have any queries about the conference, please email your union contact in the first instance. The TUC provides all the essential information to unions, who are then responsible for keeping delegates informed.

Visitors

Visitors' tickets will be issued via affiliated unions before conference. 

The TUC prioritises safety of all guests at our events. Visitor tickets are not transferrable and will be issued to named visitors only who will need to provide their name and address information. You will need to bring id that matches your visitor pass information.

Visitors will be asked to submit their individual registration by 4pm on 2 February 2026.

Any attendees not registered to attend in advance will be denied entry.

Accessibility

The TUC is keen to ensure that we provide equal access for all delegates, especially disabled delegates. 

Please inform us if you have access requirements by 4pm on 2 February 2026. Please include this information when completing your registration.

Please note that your union is responsible for providing hard copies of all documents. If you require documents in a specific format, please include this in your reasonable adjustments so we can pass this on to your union.

The TUC aims to meet all access needs where reasonably practicable and if notified in time.

Childcare facilities 

The TUC is committed to ensuring that no delegate is prevented from playing a full part in our conferences because of childcare.  

Please notify delegates that crèche facilities will be provided for those with children under 5 (not yet school age) during conference hours, free of charge, provided the TUC receives requests for more than 5 children, by the closing date for delegate registration, 2 February 2026.

The TUC provides a creche if we have over 5 children requiring this service; we make other arrangements with the parent if there are fewer than 5 children requiring the service.

Please note that unions may be liable for the cost of any ‘no-shows’ or late cancellations.

Out of hours childcare arrangements, to allow delegates with childcare responsibilities to attend fringe events can also be arranged up to 8pm.

Delegates that are breast feeding are welcome to bring their children into the conference hall with them.

Monitoring

In line with the TUC commitment to equality, delegations will be asked to complete an online equality monitoring form as part of their individual registrations.

Scrutineers and tellers 

We need a small number of scrutineers to count the ballots for the Young Workers Committee and the motion to Congress.  The TUC will approach the delegation leaders for volunteers from amongst their delegates. 

Information for union officers and staff

TUC Contacts

If you have questions or queries in relation to any aspect of the 2026 TUC Young Workers’ Conference, please email: equalities@tuc.org.uk.

Key dates

TUC Young Workers’ Conference 2026 will be held at The Doubletree by Hilton Metropole, Brighton from Saturday 21 to Sunday 22 March 2026.

The deadline for motions and nominations is 4pm on 4 December 2025.
Unions must submit the names of conference delegates by 4pm on 19 December 2025.
Amendments to motions must be received by 4pm on 29 January 2026.
Delegates must complete their individual registrations by 4pm on 2 February 2026.
Fringe meeting requests must be received by 4pm on 20 February 2026.
Emergency Motions must be received by 4pm on 17 March 2026.

Conference forms

Conference sessions times

Conference sessions will be as follows:

Saturday 21 March 9.30am - 5.30pm
Sunday 22 March 9.30am – 5.30pm, with the possibility of finishing early

Motions, amendments, and emergency motions

Download the guide to writing motions.

The TUC endorses the Social Model of Disability, we ask you are mindful of this when drafting motions.

Motions

Please use this form to submit motions by 4pm on 4 December 2025.

Each union can submit up to two motions, apart from unions with more than one million members which will be allowed one additional motion for each additional 500,000 members or part thereof.

Motions exceeding 200 words will be ruled out of order. Unions should also make sure the content of motions directly relates to young workers and the issues they face and make the relevance to young workers explicit in the wording.

Please note that the motion should cover one subject only. Any motion covering more than one subject may be ruled out of order.

Motions must be approved by the General Secretary.

Composite motions

The Young Workers’ Committee will consult unions about compositing motions where appropriate.

Amendments

Please use this form for submitting your union’s amendments

Unions can submit two amendments of not more than 60 words, apart from unions with more than one million members which will be allowed one additional amendment for each additional million members or part thereof. Amendments must be submitted by 4pm on 29 January 2026.

Speaking times

The time limit for moving and speaking to motions is five minutes for the mover of the motion, and three minutes for any subsequent speaker.

Emergency motions

Emergency motions, of a maximum of 200 words, must deal with issues that have arisen since the closing date for ordinary motions and amendments. They must be received by the TUC office at equalities@tuc.org.uk and titled EMERGENCY MOTION, by 4pm on 17 March 2026 by email as a signed PDF or a Word version.

Emergency motions must be approved by the union General Secretary.

Delegations and registration arrangements

Delegate Registration

Unions must submit the names of conference delegates by 4pm on 19 December 2025 using this form and must include any access and/or childcare requests. We are keen that the conference gives voice to groups of workers that under- represented in our movement and our structure therefore encourage unions to register their young* members as delegates.

Any attendees not registered to attend in advance will be denied entry.

The number of delegates per affiliate is set out below. Affiliates are encouraged to ensure that women members constitute no fewer than 50 per cent of delegations.

All affiliated unions are entitled to be represented by a minimum of two delegates, provided always that the organisation has paid the fee prescribed in Rule 3 of the Rules and Standing Orders of the Trades Union Congress. For affiliates with 10,000 or more members, the following entitlements also apply:

Affiliated organisations with between 10,000 and 20,000 members shall be entitled to be represented by a total of 5 delegates.
Affiliated organisations with between 20,001 and 50,000 members shall be entitled to be represented by a total of 10 delegates.
Affiliated organisations with between 50,001 and 100,000 members shall be entitled to be represented by a total of 15 delegates.
Affiliated organisations with between 100,001 and 500,000 members shall be entitled to be represented by a total of 20 delegates.
Affiliated organisations with between 500,001 and 1,000,000 members shall be entitled to be represented by a total of 25 delegates.
Affiliated organisations with over 1,000,001 members shall be entitled to be represented by a total of 30 delegates

The General Council are especially keen to encourage delegations from those unions who do not usually go to conference. Delegates will be asked to submit their individual registrations by 2 February 2026.

* Delegates must be young members as defined by their own trade union on 21 March 2026, as per Rule 16 of the TUC Young Workers’ Committee Constitution. If a union does not have a definition of young member, the delegate must be 27 years or younger on the first day of Conference. All delegates must be 18 years or older.

Visitors’ tickets and documentation

Please use this form to submit your visitor names including any access and/or childcare requests by 4pm on 19 December 2025. The cost per visitor is £15 inclusive of VAT. .

Visitors will be asked to submit their individual registrations by 2 February 2026.

Visitors’ tickets (maximum 10 per union) will be issued via affiliated unions before conference. The TUC prioritises safety of all guests at our events. Visitor tickets are not transferrable and will be issued to named visitors only who will need to provide their name and address information.

Any attendees not registered to attend in advance will be denied entry.

Nominations

Please use this form to submit your union’s nominations to the Young Workers’ Committee by 4pm on 4 December 2025. Nominees must be registered as delegates by this date.

The TUC Young Workers Committee (YWC) is an advisory committee to the TUC General Council. It meets no less than four times a year. Representatives to the Committee are nominated by affiliated unions onto the following sections.

To align with other committees, there will be no more than 24 elected members of the Young Workers Committee.

Section A will be 14 general seats, which all unions can nominate too. Affiliated unions with over 1.5 million members will have the right to make 2 nominations to section A, one of whom must be a woman. The young workers general council seat will continue to be elected at TUC Congress and have a place on the committee. This place is not included in the total of 24. In addition, young workers conference will continue to elect a Chair and Vice Chair of the committee at Conference and these do form part of the 24 seats. There will be 8 equality seats as follows:

Section B (two places for women members)
Section C (two places for Black members)
Section D (two places for LGBT+ members)
Section E (two places for disabled members).

Nominees MUST be delegates at the 2026 TUC Young Workers Conference. Nominees (not the nominating union) should provide a supporting statement on the nomination form for circulation to delegates in advance of Conference. The statement should contain biographical information and relevant details of work carried out in the trade union movement but should not be an election address. The General Secretary of the relevant union should endorse the statement, which should be no longer than 150 words in length.

Please see the attached guide to writing nomination statements. Please note that statements that do not follow these criteria may be ruled out of order and not published in the list of nominations.

Fringes and delegation meetings

If you would like to book a fringe or a delegation meeting room, please use this form. The form must be received by 4pm on 20 February 2026. Unions will have to cover the cost of rooms and refreshments.

Unions will need to liaise directly with the conference venue to arrange refreshments.

Please note: If your union is running a fringe event, it is your responsibility to provide reasonable adjustments to attendees.

Monitoring 

In line with the TUC commitment to equality, delegations will be asked to complete an online equality monitoring form as part of their individual registrations.

Scrutineers and tellers

We need a small number of scrutineers to count the ballots for the Young Workers’ Committee and the motion to Congress. The TUC will approach delegation leaders for nominations from amongst their delegates.

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