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From online hate to workplace harm: understanding the manosphere

Misogyny in our society is not new, but the context is changing. Advancements in technology are used to harass and abuse; misogynistic content amplified on social media; the global roll back of women’s rights and an emboldened far right is weaponising the safety of women and girls to justify a racist, sexist, divisive anti-migrant agenda.

Alice Arkwright - 15 Sep 2026

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Changing workplace culture to end sexual harassment

It’s nearly a year since the Worker Protection Act came into effect. Trade unions and a broad coalition across civil society campaigned hard to win the Act otherwise known as the ‘Preventative Duty’.

Nikki Pound - 10 Sep 2025

tackling sexual harassment

AI Inequalities: Disabilities

TUC Cymru is concerned about the risks facing all workers from Artificial Intelligence (AI). We wanted to know more about the risks it poses for specific groups of workers. Therefore, we commissioned Prof Lina Dencik from the Data Justice Lab to produce a report on AI Inequalities at Work. Here she writes about AI’s impact on disabled workers.

Ceri Williams - 22 May 2025

Economy, jobs and pay

AI Inequalities: Disabilities

Women need stronger protections against zero hours contracts

Today [Thursday] we head into the second day of the annual TUC Women’s Conference, a national conference that brings together hundreds of women trade unionists from across the UK to discuss and organise around the issues impacting women in the workplace.

Nikki Pound - 06 Mar 2025

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It’s Gender Pension Gap Day – and we need to talk about Carers Credit

Today is Gender Pension Gap Day – the point of the year from which, if women received their pension at the same rate as men, they wouldn’t get another penny until January.

Jack Jones - 14 Aug 2024

50 years of TUC Cymru: 50 years of changes from devolution to diversity

As trade unionists gather in Llandudno for TUC Cymru Congress 2024 Shavanah Taj reflects on the last two, and 50, years of our movement.

Shavanah Taj - 21 May 2024

Shavanah Taj addressing TUC Cymru Congress 2024

50 years of TUC Cymru: Campaigning for equality puts the menopause on the map

How the menopause became one of TUC Cymru's biggest ever workplace equality campaigns.

Corporate Governance and responsibility

Menopause at work

TUC Cymru 50: Pride and the miners’ strike

In the 2014 award-winning film Pride, Dai Donovan is the warm, good-humoured Welsh miner who meets Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) in London and then, back home in Wales, hosts members of the group on his living-room floor. He’s undoubtedly one of the heroes of the film.

Ffion Dean - 16 May 2024

Economy, jobs and pay

Dai Donovan at TUC Cymru Organise Now Conference 2024

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