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Worker protections in the UK compared to the rest of the OECD

Report: Falling behind on labour rights

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Are you a union rep looking for help and advice to support your colleagues at work? Take a look at our wide range of resources.

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To effectively challenge sexual harassment, we must challenge the cultures that enable it through practical and proactive action.

Tackling and preventing sexual harassment

Organising young workers

One of the biggest challenges trade unions face is recruiting more young members and getting young members active as reps and activists. Young members are our present and our future. These resources tell the stories of young workers, why they joined and what they’re doing in their workplaces.

Cheerful young male engineer with multiracial colleagues in industry

Organising and recruiting members

The trade union movement faces huge challenges in respect of membership and activism. Here are some useful reps resources so we can build the future strength of our movement.

What's life like for young health and safety reps?

More young trade union members are seeing the benefit of taking on the role – the important rights and responsibilities it brings, and the opportunity to organise for change.

Getting by and getting on

A guide for reps about issues affecting young workers

This briefing is for reps and officers to help bargain and create campaigns on issues that young workers care and are concerned about, so that no young person is left behind, and the union movement thrives.

Organising course for union reps

TUC Education has produced this new online learning resource, which is designed to provide union reps with the skills and knowledge needed to build the strength of their unions.

TUC Summer Patrol 2023 - Our Experience on patrol in Norway

Young UK trade unionists that had the opportunity to go to Norway earlier this year to be a part of the LO-Norway Summer Patrol, and why they’re keen to replicate the project here in the UK.

Scotland’s oldest cinema wins union recognition for first time

The Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) is Scotland’s oldest cinema, first opening its doors 84 years ago back in 1939. New Unite reps at GFT, Euan Green, age 26 and 27-year-old Katie Mack, talked to the TUC about their campaign.

Young Workers and Unions - Agents for Change

Low pay, zero hours contracts, harassment and bullying in the workplace. Young workers have often been at the sharp end of bad working practices and most in need of support from trade unions.

This exhibition demonstrates the vulnerability of young workers through the last two hundred years and how they often took the lead to challenge these abuses and fight for change through their unions. It is based on the contents of the TUC Library at London Metropolitan University, using its printed, manuscript and visual resources to explore the history and role of young workers and trade unions. You can see the exhibiton here.

Young workers need trade unions more than ever

This video highlights the issues young workers face and how important it is for the survival of the trade union movement that we recruit and organise young workers, and develop the next generation of trade unionists.

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