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Insecure work
New analysis by the TUC shows that at least 3.7 million workers in the UK, around one in nine of the workforce, are in insecure work. Insecure work is not restricted to any particular corner of the country. It is widespread.
Tim Sharp - 29 Jul 2019
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A future that works for working people
This report brings together the latest evidence with a new large-scale poll on how technology could affect the future of work, conducted for the TUC in the summer of 2018.
10 Sep 2018
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TUC's response to Taylor Review consultations
Our responses to the Taylor Review consultations on agency workers, the enforcement of employment rights, employment status and measures to improve transparency in the UK labour market.
27 Jun 2018
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Pay in working class jobs
Millions of people in working class jobs have seen their pay flatline over the last decade. That's why we need a new deal for workers.
- 10 Aug 2019
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How industrial change can be managed to deliver better jobs
This report looks at successful models for industrial transformation at local level. It provides partners such as local government, local enterprise partnerships, business and trade unions with evidence and ideas to help make their local industrial strategies successful.
- 15 Jul 2019
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A just transition to a greener, fairer economy
This just transition statement sets out a number of challenging, ambitious policies that will support those workers. We call on the government to implement these recommendations in both the interests of the workers of this country and the planet on which we all live.
Tim Page - 08 Jul 2019
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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
Almost half the self-employed are on poverty pay
Almost half of self-employed adults aged over 25 are earning less than the minimum wage, according to new analysis by the TUC, that punctures the myth of a growing army of wealthy entrepreneurs.
Anjum Klair - 12 Aug 2019
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