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Gerry Murphy, Assistant General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, addresses union members outside Belfast City Hall, Belfast, as an estimated 150,000 workers take part in walkouts over pay across Northern Ireland. The strike is set to have a major impact with schools closed, hospitals offering only Christmas Day-level services, public transport cancelled as well as limited gritting of the roads in zero-degree temperatures, January 18, 2024
Six Counties / 3 September 2026
3 September 2026
Qatar Airways flight attendants wait to be cleared during a workers strike at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026
East Africa / 1 September 2026
1 September 2026
Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Kinnock (left) and Prime Minister Andy Burnham arrive for a visit to Tata Steel in Port Talbot, on the next leg of his summer tour meeting local communities outside Westminster, ahead of Parliament's return next week, August 27, 2026
Editorial / 27 August 2026
27 August 2026
Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speaking at the TUC congress at the ACC Liverpool, September 11, 2023
Workers' Rights / 27 August 2026
27 August 2026

Prime Minister must give young workers the right to guaranteed hours and ending the scourge of insecure work, TUC says

Prime Minister Andy Burnham, accompanied by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan  (second left)  and Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden (left), speaks to members of staff during his visit to Sainsbury's supermarket in Nine Elms, London, August 26, 2026
Politics / 26 August 2026
26 August 2026

National Education Union welcomes move but tells PM to go further and refund careers advice for young people

A general view of the new V&A East Storehouse and Museum in Stratford, which is due to open in 2025. Picture date: Wednesday 17, April 2024
Industrial Dispute / 26 August 2026
26 August 2026

Their union Prospect accuses V&A boss Tristram Hunt of refusing to negotiate

Unison members outside Oldham hospital, greater Manchester, August 24, 2026 [Pic: Neil Terry]
Workers' Rights / 24 August 2026
24 August 2026
George Guy at Labour conference
Obituary / 25 August 2026
25 August 2026

Remembering a legendary trade unionist and inspirational leader

Workers' Rights / 24 August 2026
24 August 2026
UVW Butlins
Workers' Rights / 20 August 2026
20 August 2026
Smoke and flames from a blaze on Landmann Way, in Deptford as seen from Millwall. Fifteen fire engines and about 100 firefighters are tackling a waste fire in southeast London. London Fire Brigade (LFB) said the blaze on Landmann Way, in Deptford, involves about 50 tonnes of household waste stored at a waste facility. The force were first called just before 8pm, and crews from East Greenwich, Old Kent Road, Deptford and surrounding fire stations went to the scene, August 18, 2026
Public Services / 20 August 2026
20 August 2026
An easyJet aeroplane at Gatwick Airport
Workers' Rights / 20 August 2026
20 August 2026
Workers make final preparations before the launch of the MV Glen Rosa at Ferguson Marine Port Glasgow shipyard, marking the first time the vessel will enter the water, April 9, 2024
Workers' Rights / 18 August 2026
18 August 2026
Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speaking at the TUC congress at the ACC Liverpool, September 11, 2023
Workers' Rights / 18 August 2026
18 August 2026
A view of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood
Scotland / 17 August 2026
17 August 2026
A general view of the Thales missile factory in east Belfast, Ireland
Victory / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026
Sweden Tesla
Workers' Rights / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026
People take part in a rally outside the Scottish Parliament,
Workers' Rights / 14 August 2026
14 August 2026
Australian dollars [Pic: Debora Cardenas / Creative Commons]
Workers' Rights / 12 August 2026
12 August 2026
Students arrive for the Trinity May Ball at Cambridge University's Trinity College, June 22, 2026
Tribunal / 12 August 2026
12 August 2026
A view of signage for HM Treasury in Westminster, London
Workers' Rights / 11 August 2026
11 August 2026
Mercedes Villalba
Britain / 10 August 2026
10 August 2026
West End pic
Workers' Rights / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026
Workers' Rights / 30 July 2026
30 July 2026
Daniel Gross book
Workers' Rights / 27 July 2026
27 July 2026

US-based labour and social movements authors and organisers Robert Ovetz and James Tracy interview DANIEL GROSS about his new book, Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World

WINNING TEAM: Shavanah Taj, General Secretary of Wales TUC joins, with her two daughters, protesters from the National Education Union (NEU), Trades Union Congress (TUC), Public and Commercial Services (PCS), and University and College Union (UCU) at a TUC rally in central Cardiff, February 2023
Workers' Rights / 25 July 2026
25 July 2026

The International Court of Justice has delivered its clearest ruling yet that the right to strike is protected under international law, write Professor TONIA NOVITZ, Professor KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC

The mastheads for the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express
Media / 23 July 2026
23 July 2026
People climbing on top of the Queen Victoria Statue as they take part in a Black Lives Matter protest rally in Manchester Piccadilly Gardens, in memory of George Floyd who was killed on May 25 while in police custody in the US city of Minneapolis
Anti-fascism / 23 July 2026
23 July 2026

by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association

Striking members of the National Education Union (NEU) on Piccadilly march to a rally in Trafalgar Square, central London, in a long-running dispute over pay, March 15, 2023
National Education Union / 21 July 2026
21 July 2026
Officers from the National Crime Agency arrive at a property in Grays, Essex, June 19, 2023
Workers' Rights / 20 July 2026
20 July 2026
Britain's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaks to staff and media at 10 Downing Street in London, July 20, 2026
Politics / 21 July 2026
21 July 2026

The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book

A person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban
Workers' Rights / 16 July 2026
16 July 2026
04/07/26 of Andy Burnham being interviewed by Sky Sports ahead of the Betfred Super League match at the Hill Dickinson Stadium, Liverpool
Cost-of-Living Crisis / 16 July 2026
16 July 2026
GFTU summer school 2026
GFTU Summer School / 15 July 2026
15 July 2026

HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel