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Jobs and pay monitor - young workers

New analysis published by the TUC shows that young workers face a harsh economic reality. Young workers not only face high unemployment rates, but are more likely to be on zero-hours contracts and in low paid work

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TUC LESE Regional Council and Executive Committee

Find out more about LESE Regional Council and Executive Committee meeting dates.

Impact of the rising cost of living on women

The cost-of-living crisis is another crisis that women are at the sharp end of. Like the pandemic and over a decade of austerity, it is exacerbating the existing structural inequalities women face, leaving them less insulated from its impacts. This risks not only stifling any progress towards women’s economic and social equality but sending it into reverse.

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In response to recent windfalls, this paper presents some options for increasing taxes to raise additional revenue from banks – and to renew a policy of fairer shares that has been abandoned by Sunak. Our estimates for the revenue these options will raise are all very conservative. This is because they are based on OBR forecasts from March 2023 which have not been adjusted for the larger than expected bank profits that have come in over the course of this year.

Jobs and pay monitor - disabled workers

Our latest report, using data from 2022/23, shows little progress when it comes to pay. The disability pay gap stands at 14.6 per cent. This is a drop from last year, when the pay gap was 17.2 per cent, but little change compared to six years ago. The pay gap is higher than it was in 2013/14 (the earliest comparable data), when it was 13.2 per cent.

Minimum Service Levels Consultation: Hospital services

TUC are strongly opposed to the introduction of minimum service levels (MSLs) in hospital services that arise from the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act. The Strikes Act is unfair, undemocratic, and likely in breach of our international legal commitments.

Anti-Racism in the workplace - 10 Actions for workplace reps

We’re choosing to stand up against racism and hate wherever we find it. We’re confident in our common values of respect and equality for all people in Wales. We are proudly listing the actions that we can take. Aimed at reps and union members they outline how we can all make a difference in our workplaces.

Anti-Racism in the workplace - 10 Actions for workplace reps

Call for evidence: non-statutory flexible working

The TUC’s response focuses on four key questions in the call for evidence.

10 steps towards LGBTQ+ inclusive workplaces

We have developed a 10-point action plan, that Trade Union reps can implement in workplaces across Wales to make real practical changes.

10 steps towards LGBTQ+ inclusive workplaces

A trade union bargaining guide for greener, healthier and fairer travel

Exploring why sustainable travel is an important issue for trade unionists and looks at what action can be taken in the workplace

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Code of practice on “reasonable steps”

The right to strike is a fundamental British liberty that is a vital part of ensuring a fair balance of power in the workplace. It is protected by the Human Rights Act 1998, Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the International Labour Organisation’s Convention 87 and Article 6(4) of the European Social Charter. It is therefore a core part of the UK’s international commitments.

Minimum service levels: issuing work notices

TUC response to draft work notice guidance. The TUC strongly opposes the introduction of minimum service levels. We believe that the regime initiated by the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 is draconian, unnecessary and unworkable.

An inspection of the immigration system as it relates to the social care sector - TUC response

TUC response to the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) call for evidence.

DLME Call for Evidence

Our recommendations and comments are wide ranging because the Director of Labour Market Enforcement has discretion, under Section 2 (d) of the Immigration Act, to make wide recommendations and observations about the labour market enforcement system. We believe four fundamental reforms are needed to boost the effectiveness of the labour market enforcement system:

Pulling all the levers

Active industrial strategies have become normalised in industrial nations eager to secure their domestic industries in the race to net zero. Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is pouring billions of dollars in public investment into cutting carbon emissions, growing US industrial activity and creating jobs. This report lays out a plan for a successful net zero industrial strategy.

TUC submission to the CEACR

Response to the CAS conclusions on Convention 87.

Tackling non-complianance in the umbrella company market

We welcome the opportunity to engage with this consultation and present our views on the most effective way to stamp out worker exploitation in the umbrella industry. The TUC believes that the only effective way to prevent the exploitation of workers by umbrella companies is to prohibit recruitment agencies and employers from using them.

Acas consultation on the flexible working Code of Practice

TUC response to Acas's consultation on the new draft flexible working Code of Practice.

A strategy for the care workforce

This report, developed with care workers and their trade unions, foregrounds care workers voices and experiences to spotlight current challenges across the care economy. We lay out the critical building blocks of a care workforce strategy that are common to childcare and social care. Our proposals will ensure all care workers in England are valued and supported, as a key means of addressing the current staffing crisis and improving access to and quality of social and childcare services.

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Investing in our future

In this briefing TUC sets out the “Investing in our Future” programme, composed of existing trade union proposals for clean infrastructure investments. The briefing analyses what the next government could realistically deliver in a first term. The majority of the capital investment projects (worth 55-60% of the whole programme) can begin at scale early in the term, whereas the remainder (worth 40-45% of the programme) requires longer lead-in and has to ramp up through a government’s term.

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General Council Report 2023

This report contains details of the work undertaken by the General Council during the past year, 2022-2023.

Turkey: trade unions, crisis, repression

TUC briefing on the current political, economic, and legal situation for trade unions in Turkey.

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Insecure work in 2023

Despite government promises to introduce “measures to protect those in low-paid work and the gig economy”, and to bring forward an employment bill that would “protect and enhance workers’ rights as the UK leaves the EU, making Britain the best place in the world to work” the government has done nothing to give workers greater security.

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Trades union health and safety reps survey report

This is the 14th TUC survey of health and safety representatives, which we carry out every two years. We use this report to understand the changing experience of safety representatives at work and to help provide more support. We also use the survey to inform our campaigning priorities. We hope that unions and reps can use the report to help with their ongoing work.

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Public Power: turning it into reality

This report calls for the UK government to set up a public energy champion to build new clean power, accelerate decarbonisation, create the high-skilled quality green jobs of the future, and share the benefits of the climate transition with the population.

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Code of practice on dismissal and re-engagement consultation

Unions have an excellent track record of fighting fire and re-hire attempts by employers. Notable union campaigns include successfully fighting employers attempts to dismiss and re-engage at Tesco, Clarks, Douwe Egberts and British Airways. Nevertheless, the current legal framework still gives employers excessive leeway to impose unwarranted cuts to terms and conditions.

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Workers are not to blame for cost-of-living crisis

Still enduring the longest pay crisis for two centuries, workers now face the steepest inflation for 40 years. But rather than acting to reduce the impacts of these pressures on people’s living standards, the government has been quick to suggest pay needs to be further restrained, and even to blame working people for interest rate rises.

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Labour Party Review: points-based system engagement

The TUC campaigns for a humane immigration policy that includes safe legal routes for refugees and asylum seekers to enter the UK. We have strongly opposed the government’s current approach to immigration in the form of the illegal immigration bill, which breaches the UK’s international commitments.

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Work intensification

This report is a compilation of trade union case studies showing how ‘work intensification’ is a growing problem, across a number of sectors and occupations, with negative consequences for working people. The case studies give a real life perspective of how work intensification is affecting working people. They show how unions are negotiating with employers to come up with solutions to tackle work intensification.

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Digitisation in the public sector

This report presents recommendations for union action as public services and work in said services become increasingly digitised. Methodologically, the report is based on interviews with trade unions and workplace representatives conducted in late 2022 as well as desk top research.

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