TRICO: the strike to win equal pay for equal work

Forty years after a legendary strike for equal pay and legislation supposedly guaranteeing it, women are still being underpaid, writes SALLY GROVES

It's time maritime workers got the protection they deserve

Without seafarers, half the world would starve and half would freeze, so why do governments turn a blind eye to their appalling exploitation, asks MARK DICKINSON

Labour will forge a new workplace environment, says John McDonnell

JOHN McDONNELL will pledge to “restore the balance of power in the workplace” in his address to TUC Congress today.

A major shake-up in employment legislation proposed

KEITH EWING, JOHN HENDY and CAROLYN JONES of the Institute of Employment Rights explain the general principles of Rolling Out the Manifesto for Labour Law — the most detailed framework of progressive legislative proposals on workers’ rights to have been produced for 45 years

Somerset County Council accused of financial incompetence after staff asked to take unpaid leave

UNITE the union accused Somerset County Council today of financial incompetence after the authority proposed staff take two days’ unpaid leave over

One in six Ryanair flights grounded as pilots begin 24-hour strike

STRIKING pilots grounded one in six Ryanair flights yesterday as they started a 24-hour stoppage in five countries at the peak holiday season.

‘We can't allow them to keep abusing workers’

MoJ and RBKC cleaners begin landmark strike over rights

The workers suffering – and dying – in extreme heat

For Peggy Frank, a Los Angeles letter carrier, any federal or California safety rule ordering her employer and all other firms  to protect workers

NHS staff to protest over transfer of jobs to private subsidiary firm

The trade union movement has the potential to transform this country

AS OUR movement dwells on the sacrifices of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, pioneers who suffered prison and deportation for organising a trade union, we sh