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Millions ‘holding on with their fingertips’ due to high interest rates, squeezed wages and Covid costs, says the European TUC boss, Esther LynchWorkers across Europe are “holding on with their fingernails” and face a bleak winter ahead, as high interes…
RMT says action in long-running dispute over jobs and conditions will shut down tube services in capitalThousands of London Underground station staff are to strike next month in a long-running dispute over jobs and conditions.The stoppages by members o…
Health secretary sets out proposals to extend minimum cover laws as 48-hour strike begins in EnglandUK politics live – latest updatesThe health secretary has accused NHS staff in England of planning “politically timed” industrial action as he outlined …
Unions say as many as 3,000 workers could lose posts in long term on back of deal to help decarbonisation plansBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK government has agreed a £500m support package for Tata Steel to secure the future of the Port Talbot ste…
Aslef members will take action on Saturday 30 September and Wednesday 4 OctoberTrain drivers have announced two more days of strikes and an overtime ban across England, timed to bring services to a halt at the start and end of the Conservative party co…
Exclusive: FBU says finding that some women can earn thousands less on year’s leave shows female members are undervaluedFemale firefighters face a postcode lottery in which they can earn more than £15,000 less while on a year’s maternity leave than the…
At likely final gathering of the TUC before next general election, focus was on chucking the Tories out of officeWith perhaps just months to go before a general election, Keir Starmer’s message to union leaders gathered for dinner in Liverpool on Monda…
Labour deputy leader tells TUC party would also seek to repeal anti-strike laws within 100 days of entering governmentAngela Rayner has given a “cast iron guarantee” that Labour would bring in a new bill to ban zero-hours contracts and repeal anti-stri…
Lord Frost, Brexit negotiator for former PM, tells House of Lords that government never wanted ‘unsatisfactory’ protocol to workRayner says Labour will update trade union laws to make them fit for the 21st century.The laws affecting union reps and offi…
Figures show government is well short of 26,360 target amid crisis in teacher recruitment and retentionOnly half of the required number of trainee secondary school teachers in England have been recruited as the academic year gets under way, analysis sh…