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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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TUC: Nationalisation of British Steel “vital step forward” for entire industry and its workers

Steel is a foundation industry – it's vital to our economy and our security as a country. Nationalising British Steel is the right thing to do and it’s in the national interest.

Industrial strategy

Nigerian Government investigated for anti-union interference

2024 arrest of NLC President on his way to TUC Congress raised with UN workers’ rights watchdog

Stephen Russell - 16 Jul 2026

Global solidarity

The growth of trade union membership in the UK – a focus on London, the South East, and the East of England

The official statistics published in May showed a big rise in trade union membership in the UK between 2024 and 2025. We at the TUC rightly celebrated the increase of 192,000 members to 6.57 million. Read the TUC’s excellent blog about the membership figures.

Laurie Heselden - 16 Jul 2026

Union organising

Proposals on the school support staff negotiating body

The TUC fully supports the government’s ambition to establish a dedicated negotiating body for school support staff to improve employment conditions within the sector. We welcome the opportunity to respond to this consultation.

Public services and transport - Consultation response

TUC CYMRU RESPONSE TO SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET VOTE

TUC Cymru General Secretary, Laura Doel responds

Corporate Governance and responsibility

PPE scandal shows need to protect staff and public from dodgy deals with private sector – TUC

The TUC responds to the Covid Inquiry report on failures in providing PPE

Health and safety

PCS exposes the human cost of Capita's incompetence and demands immediate and radical action

PCS has demanded that public sector workers must administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme to remedy unforgivable harm caused by Capita’s incompetence and that those who have suffered must be compensated as a matter of urgency.

Union organising

pcs/capita protest

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

Work and technology

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