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STUC report: How can unions maximise wins from Britain’s next government?
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko reports from two vital Scottish TUC fringe meetings
Supreme Court judgment: UK trade union law breaches Article 11 of the ECHR
Unison’s legal case makes clear employers must not discipline staff for striking
Join the IER in Dundee for STUC Congress
The 127th Annual STUC Congress will be held between 15-17th of April at Caird Hall, City Square, Dundee, DD1 3BB
Parcelforce delivery drivers launch group lawsuit against Royal Mail
Parcelforce delivery drivers belonging to the IWGB union are taking Royal Mail to court, arguing they have been wrongly denied basic rights
Office of National Statistics workers vote for industrial action over mandatory return to the office policy
PCS members vote decisively to strike over 40% office working time stipulation.
Minimum wage and National Living Wage increases
Real Living wage - paid voluntarily by some businesses in the UK - remains at the same level
Sick pay system is “broken and in desperate need of reform”, says TUC
The Covid-19 pandemic showed that our sick pay system is in desperate need of reform.
Justin Madders on the New Deal for Working People: ‘Better pay will end the self-defeating low wage’
The MP for Ellesmere Port and Shadow Minister for Business, Employment Rights and Levelling up writes in the Chester Standard
Lord Mandelson stirs up a hornet’s nest on workers’ rights
Former Blair advisor's intervention on the New Deal for Working People met with strong rebuke
GMB wins sick pay for 19,000 care workers
Massive win a landmark shift in culture for the entire care sector, says GMB Union
A ‘clear breach’ in the rule of law: Lord John Hendy on the Fire and Rescue MSL regulations [video]
Speech made to the House of Lords on Tuesday 19th March
Ministers have “done nothing” to stop another P&O Ferries, unions warn on 2 year anniversary of mass sacking
TUC, Nautilus and RMT join forces to call for a mandatory seafarers’ charter and boost to workers’ rights
