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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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Workers actually have significant leverage on AI right now

In talk of the ‘AI transformation’ workers are often cast as the subjects or even victims of change. They are to be trained, maybe protected or perhaps just discarded. It is true that workers face instability. But two dynamics are playing out in a way that is giving workers, representatives and allies significant leverage right now.

Adam Cantwell-Corn

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Lessons from education unions building power on AI

In partnership with nine unions, Connected by Data and the TUC worked across 7 months on an ‘action learning’ programme to test how to catalyse the movement’s capacity to understand, negotiate and advocate on AI from worker’s perspectives.

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Paul Nowak's speech at The Past We Inherit, The Future We Build event on AI in Northumberland

Speaking at an AI conference in Blyth on 6th February 2026, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak set out the need for a pro-worker strategy for AI.

Building educator power to shape AI

Ten unions are working together to ensure AI and EdTech is shaped by millions of support staff, teachers, leaders and specialists in a project by the TUC and Connected by Data.

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An urgent call for educator voice in AI and EdTech from 10 unions

A joint statement from AEP, EIS, GMB, NAHT, NASUWT, NEU, UCAC, UCU, UNISON and Unite.

Unions and online safety campaigners call on MPs to stop TikTok “sacrificing online safety” with mass AI-driven job cuts

Unions and some of the UK’s highest profile online safety campaigners have called on MPs to urgently investigate a proposed wave of over 400 job cuts from TikTok’s London office.

Building a pro-worker AI innovation strategy

A pro-worker AI innovation strategy for the UK should use every lever to shape technology towards good jobs, resilient public services and to drive socially useful innovation – for now and the future, at home and abroad.

Adam Cantwell-Corn

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Artificial intelligence for creative workers

Our manifesto outlines our values and proposals to address the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on creative work and workers.

TUC generative AI policy toolkit

The toolkit helps reps and staff dig into the detail of policies introduced by employers around using Generative AI in the workplace, and negotiate policies that could better serve members' interests.

Building Good Work in an age of AI: guide for reps

This practical guide for workplace representatives - developed for the TUC - is designed to equip union reps to undertake the GWAIA process. It is published in parallel with our comprehensive guidance that lays out the legal underpinning for the process, and how it can be used in a collective bargaining process.

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