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Tackling and preventing sexual harassment

To effectively challenge sexual harassment, we must challenge the cultures that enable it through practical and proactive action.

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Minimum Service Levels – Rail

We believe that the measures included in the bill are not only disproportionate but actively misguided, proposing an artificial and non-existent division between the interests of rail industry workers and rail passengers / wider society.

Public services and transport - Consultation response

Public transport fit for the climate emergency

The climate emergency means we must act. But the benefits of affordable, reliable and extensive public transport are so great that we should want to anyway – for the lower cost of living and higher quality of life it will bring. This report lays out the blueprint for 21st century public transport, all that’s left is to build it.

Kam Gill - 12 Apr 2023

Industrial strategy - Research and reports

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The future of rail funding in the UK

TUC reviews several models for funding and running a national rail industry and draws out lessons for the UK.

Industrial strategy - Research and reports

Passengers on platform at Waterloo

P&O Ferries - A line in the sand

TUC and our unions in the sector believe P&O Ferries’ business model is unlawful, unsustainable and disreputable.

Public services and transport - Research and reports

Opportunities and threats to the public sector from digitisation

This report considers the government's commitment to transforming public services through digitisation. It looks specifically at the impact of digitisation on the public sector workforce.

Public services and transport - Research and reports

Levelling up at work - fixing work to level up across the UK

This report argues that poor quality work is a key cause of broader inequality across the country. Unless we reduce the numbers of people in jobs that are in low-paid, insecure and offer no route to better quality work, little will change in the lived experience of a significant number and proportion of people across every part of the UK. We cannot level up the country without levelling up at work.

Corporate Governance and responsibility - Research and reports

A plan for public service jobs to help prevent mass unemployment

The TUC set out a plan in June for how we could create 1.24 million jobs in the next two years in the green industries of the future. But government investment needs to go beyond that: we need a plan for direct public sector job creation.

Economy, jobs and pay - Policy proposal

Making this a decade of renewal

TUC Budget submission to the Treasury, calling on the Chancellor to make the 2020s a decade of renewal – with green infrastructure, rebuilding of public services, and support for better quality jobs

Economy, jobs and pay - Policy proposal

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