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TUC submission to the Education and Work Pensions Select Committees inquiry on the child poverty strategy
The TUC welcomes the Labour Government’s 10-year Child Poverty Strategy and its efforts to address high child poverty levels. Measures such as ending the two-child limit, expanding free school meals are expected to significantly reduce child poverty.
Anjum Klair - 15 Apr 2026
Economy, jobs and pay - Consultation response
Modelling the economic benefits of the Employment Rights Bill
The government has conducted a cost benefit analysis of the Employment Rights Act but acknowledges this is incomplete because it is not able to monetise many of the wider benefits of the package. Our analysis takes some of the benefits identified by government which have been left unquantified and produces quantitative estimates for them. This produces a central estimate for total benefits at £10.3 billion (ranging from £5.0 billion to £15.7 billion).
31 May 2025
Economy, jobs and pay - Research and reports
TUC submission Autumn Budget 2025
The UK faces an unprecedented set of economic and social challenges: years of poor growth, falling living standards and decimated public services. The drivers include reckless reductions in public capital investment and public service spending; a bad Brexit deal; and a lack of any genuine industrial or labour market policy under the previous Conservative government.
Geoff Tily - 16 Nov 2025
Economy, jobs and pay - Policy proposal
downing street
Falling behind on labour rights
This report reveals that the UK has long lagged most equivalent countries when it comes to safeguarding people at work. The gap widened after Conservative-led governments took power from 2010. This matters because separate research shows that strong labour protections are associated with better economic outcomes like higher employment and a greater share of profits for workers.
02 Aug 2024
Economy, jobs and pay - Research and reports
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.
Geoff Tily - 03 Aug 2023
Economy, jobs and pay - Research and reports
two workers in a factory talking
From the doom loop to an economy for work not wealth
This paper outlines an alternative model to reset the balance in favour of work and away from wealth. These policies have a substantial international dimension, given inequalities and failures of work are no less apparent between countries as well as within them. 
01 Feb 2023
Economy, jobs and pay - Research and reports
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Responding to the cost-of-living crisis: a plan for action
We need a plan to get families through the winter. But we have to recognise that this crisis is a result of successive failures of government. That’s why it’s vital we take action now to deliver sustained wage rises, real support for families, and a fair, secure and zero carbon energy system for the future.
11 Aug 2022
Economy, jobs and pay - Policy proposal
Jobs and pay monitor - Why we need a pay rise
This edition of our regular jobs and pay monitor sets out the arguments to show that workers can have pay rises without this leading to further inflationary pressure. 
11 Aug 2022
Economy, jobs and pay - Research and reports
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