Members and supporters of the University and College Union (UCU) Scotland during a rally at Buchanan Street in Glasgow
HEART UNIONS week 2023 is an opportunity to highlight how trade unions have “risen to the immense challenges” of the Covid-19 pandemic and the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation, the TUC stressed today.
The annual event, which highlights the positive contribution that unions make in workplaces and across wider society, comes amid the largest strike wave to sweep Britain since the 1980s as workers challenge a decade of Tory austerity.
In a statement, the union body said: “After working through a global pandemic, union members have been forced to navigate their way through a cost-of-living crisis this year.
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