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The economy of the many is better than the economy of the few
200 years ago today (16 August), a public meeting on St. Peter’s Field in Manchester was savagely broken up by government forces. Shelly’s famous poem ‘The Mask of Anarchy’ commemorated those who lost their lives at ‘Peterloo’ and urged the ‘many’ to rise up against the ‘few’.
Geoff Tily - 16 Aug 2019
Economy, jobs and pay
Peterloo Massacre by Hablot Knight Browne
Learning to put hope and power into the hands of young workers
Last Saturday, 20 young workers from across the Yorkshire and Humberside region came together in Sheffield for the first time to learn how to organise. Here’s what we learned.
Jon Benson - 13 Aug 2019
Union organising
Image of young workers
Young people are a catalyst for change - Why young people can provide the change we all need
As a young person, with a job, growing up in a primarily working-class city with most young people around me in employment, I can safely say that young people do have drive to be active within a union movement.
Lucy Moran - 05 Aug 2019
Union organising
The TUC Summer Patrol - inspiring a new generation of trade unionists
A new initiative by TUC Yorkshire and the Humber is helping to connect younger workers with the trade union movement.
Rosa and Gareth Crawford and Lewis - 16 Jul 2019
Equality
A group of young trade unionists
Trade union membership rises by 100,000 in a single year – but challenges remain
Another rise in trade union membership is promising, but we still have much to do to reach young people in the private sector
Carl Roper - 30 May 2019
Union organising
Young workers
Standing up to the far-right – how TUC support can help
The TUC has launched a new resource to help workplace and community reps combat the far-right
James McKenna - 17 May 2019
Union organising
Far right graphic
A ban on zero-hours contracts - a victory for Irish unions
Irish unions have won a significant victory for the lowest paid, and most insecure, workers.
Matt Creagh - 06 Mar 2019
Global solidarity
Two warehouse workers
The far-right is mobilising – trade unions must rally to defeat them
Unions should draw on their heritage of resisting racism and fascism in order to counter the rise of the far-right.
Adam Quarshie - 26 Feb 2019
Equality
Workers holing a banner at a demonstration
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