Responding to the Office for National Statistics'

Commenting on the Prime Minister's decision to invite only a handful of trade bodies to his health summit this afternoon (Monday), TUC Deputy General Secretary Frances O'Grady said:

Reducing consultation rights during collective redundancy exercises could cost jobs, damage workforce morale and increase unemployment, the TUC warns today (Monday).

There is a huge gap in the rhetoric the government uses on disability and the reality of how its policies impact on opportunities for disabled people, says the TUC today (Thursday).In its submission to the Office for Disability Issues (ODI) consultation on its three-year strategy on disability, the TUC argues that for disabled people who are able to work, paid, decent, secure and safe employment is the best route out of poverty and is an important step towards social inclusion.

Responding to the latest unemployment figures published today by the Office for National Statistics (Wednesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:

The conference will feature union case studies on Skills &&

Source: ASLEF

Source: ASLEF

Source: GMB

Source: PCS

Source: PCS

A new union, representing workers in the Nepal?s well-established tourism industry, was inaugurated at an event in Kathmandu recently.

Unions in Turkey are joining forces in a bid to see off a notorious piece of draft legislation, which, if passed, threatens to erode Labour rights.

After 10 days of strike action and with support from unions around the world, the dockers of Egypt?s port of Sokhna returned to work today after winning concessions from employer Dubai Ports World (DPW).

Unions around the world are being urged to support aviation workers in Ecuador who have been dismissed by an airline in what is regarded as an anti-union attack.

The ITF?s offshore task force group will call on the UK government to look into the suspected exploitation of Romanian rig workers in the UK port of Hartlepool.