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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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Increasing workers' influence over the African Continental Free Trade Agreement

This project will help expand the capacity of trade unionists in Cameroon to influence talks on the African Continental Free Trade Agreement and related protocols to promote decent work, to oversee the implementation of the agreement, and to flag any harmful effects on workers.

Global solidarity - Research and reports

TUC and unions in Turkey call for trade talks to be suspended

The TUC welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Department for Business and Trade consultation on an updated UK- Türkiye trade deal.

Economy, jobs and pay - Consultation response

Turkey: trade unions, crisis, repression

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

Robert Maisey - 22 Aug 2023

Global solidarity - Research and reports

Members of the trade union DISK surrounded by riot police in Turkey

Protecting workers’ rights using the UK-EU trade and cooperation agreement' - TUC summary

Economy, jobs and pay - Research and reports

The Challenge to Democracy in Brazil

This important report describes how the social progress achieved by Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff has been thrown into reverse by the governments of Michel Temer and now Jair Bolsonaro, the so-called “Trump of the Tropics”.

Global solidarity - Research and reports

Activists of the CUT demonstrate against Bolsonaro

Statement of Solidarity with the General Labour Federation of Belgium (FGTB)

The UK Trades Union Congress is appalled to hear of the persecution of trade union leaders in Belgium.

Global solidarity - Letter

TUC Briefing on the UK-Andean Trade Agreement

The TUC is concerned that the Colombian government is systematically violating commitments it made in the agreement to uphold human, labour, and trade union rights.

Economy, jobs and pay - Research and reports

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Trade union activism on violence against women in Brazil

This project aims to initiate action on violence against women, as a trade union issue, amongst Building and Woodworkers International (BWI) affiliates in Brazil and the Latin America and Caribbean region.

Women's rights - Research and reports

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