Explore all stories - TUC 150 Stories

Health and Safety

Health and Safety Act 1974

Bringing socialism to Liverpool

Health and Safety

Making London the safest Olympics ever

Memories of the general strike

The first female president of the TUC

“Let’s open up the world and bring light and knowledge in”

10 things you need to know

Trade unions during WWII

Building relationships and boosting morale

Disabled workers

Creating the right balance for work and family life

Mary Bamber and Bessie Braddock

Like mother, like daughter

The Wapping Dispute

Oliver Kilbourn

The Pitmen Painters

Thirty years to equality at work

Saving Steel Workers' Pensions

The real-life hero from Pride

The Tolpuddle Martyrs

Kevin Horne and Barbara Jackson

“I ran for my life through a field, horses chasing me.”

"A burning sense of what was just"

Margaret Bondfield

Shop floor rebel

Bristol bus boycott

Bristol’s forgotten civil rights scandal

The great Penrhyn quarry strike

Capturing the public imagination

Campaigning for recognition

Clementina Black

Apprenticeships

Championing Young Workers

Match Women’s Strike

Low Pay Commission

Global Solidarity

Hans Gottfurcht

How the TUC helped to keep European unionism alive during WWII

Everyday Heroes

Poet, socialist and trade union leader

Chris Braithwaite

Sailor, docker and activist

Dorothy Ratcliffe and Susan Crosby

Equal pay in Yorkshire school canteens

The founding of the TUC

150 years on and going strong

Taking on the print barons

Ricky Tomlinson

“My innocence has been proved time and again”

84 years of activism

Trade union leader and all-round firebrand

Demanding a minimum wage

Fighting wage slavery

Global Solidarity

The 1889 London dockworkers’ strike

Five steps to success

The Trico strike for equal pay

The Woolf’s Strike

Organising migrant workers

Everyday Heroes

Order of Industrial Heroism

Celebrating working heroes

Pioneering trade unionist and suffragette

A beacon of hope at GCHQ

Health and Safety

Joint Production Committees

Protecting workers

Global Solidarity

Supporting Polish trade unionists

Keeping the family together

The Jarrow March

Demanding a new deal

Dagenham Women’s Strike

How Ford’s striking women drove the Equal Pay Act

Greater Manchester

"We knew we had to set up our own union"

7 things you should know

Miner, socialist, pacifist, leader

Health and Safety

Samuel Plimsoll

The sailors' hero

The man who redefined the TUC

Revolutionary Rosie

Mass Strike in Dublin 1913

Let Robeson Sing

Costing workers their jobs and their families

Eyewitness to Cable Street

Playing a blinder for women

Disabled workers

National League of the Blind

"Justice not Charity"

Global Solidarity

G.H. Stuart-Bunning

The International Labour Organisation

Burston School Strike

The longest strike in history

The weavers strike

Success for the first all-woman strike committee

Best foot forward – from redundancy to a shoe business

The pioneer behind 30 women’s trade unions

Founder of the NHS

"We are those lions, Mr Manager.”

Ending discrimination on the buses

Fighting back against sexual harassment

Health and Safety

“We’ll never know how many lives we’ve saved”

Firefighter and FBU official

Supporting women survivors of violence

"Without my union, I wouldn't have survived"

“Actors have always been part of the gig economy”

Dudley Hackling

‘It all comes down to communication and confidence’

Galvanising a community in times of strife

“The classes are a great networking event.”

“It’s a privilege to be involved with trade unions”

Many routes to an education

Queueing up to learn

A young postie with a passion for fairness

Global Solidarity

From the college canteen to international leadership

Galvanising a community in times of strife

Changing the conversation about mental health at work

Health and Safety

Alan Knight MBE

“I want to make sure young footballers don’t go through what I had to”

Evelyn Martin MBE

A lifetime of learning

Yorkshire and Humber

Jake O’Malley

Three steps to building a strong union

Public Services

Deborah Bell and Karen McArthur

The faces behind library losses

Winning for care workers on zero-hours

Craig Johnstone

The Churchill Cleaners: five tips to winning a dispute

“An outstanding trade unionist”

Musician's Union

Four reasons why musicians need unions

Building a culture of learning – at every level and background

Knocking on every door

Fighting for permanent contracts

Fighting for change at McDonalds

Millie Apedo-Amah

The vital role of a train guard

Five things I learnt from being a union member

Charlotte Gardner

Leading a network of 50 reps

“It’s been a sacrifice but it was worth it”

Helping girls plan for life after football

Health and Safety

60 seconds at Sellafield

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Booking in time to destress

Show the love – hug your school!

Anne Cox, headteacher

“A 200-word essay changed my life”

Health and Safety

Janise Corsfield

“I’ve always been safety conscious”

Squeezing our public service professionals

Angela Rayner MP

A remarkable journey to Westminster

People don’t say no enough

Royal College of Midwives

Jillian Ireland and Sara Fripp

Singing it loud

Alisdair Kairns

Not all glitz and glamour at the movies

Five ways my union supported my transition

Yorkshire and Humber

Lisa Greenfield

“People always want to learn”

When we ‘do the business’ for our members, we can build a stronger union

Disabled workers

Changing the narrative

Wasting no time to build a movement

Canon Steven Saxby

Five reasons why faith workers need unions

We turned something negative into something really positive

“A union is about being united and working together”

5 reasons for musicians to join a union

Apprenticeships

“An apprenticeship was a no-brainer”

A no-nonsense approach on the shop floor

Health and Safety

60 seconds on a North Sea rig

Gail Cartwright, Midwife

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Why I came out as gay at a school assembly

Pauline Carwood

"30 years ago women didn't drive trains"

Barry Downey, Firefighter

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Satnam Singh Ner

Bringing diversity into the workplace

Albert Mansbridge

Championing education for working people

People’s March for Jobs

Fiercely intelligent, influential and inspirational

“Journalism was suddenly being equated with espionage”

The home of the British trade union movement

Campaigning for paid holiday for everyone

Cricket ball makers strike

Small but mighty

14 stories

Fighting for the future

4 stories

Disabled Workers

Challenging stereotypes

9 stories

Fighting for racial equality

6 stories

A new deal for working people

Trade unionists demanding change

9 stories

International Women’s Day

Women trade unionists winning equal pay

4 stories

End the public sector pay squeeze

Public sector workers explain the impact of pay cuts

7 stories

100 years of suffrage

Women trade unionists fighting for equality

11 stories

Building safer workplaces

Protecting workers' health and safety

8 stories

Learning with your union

Because everyone has the right to an education

7 stories

Celebrating the work of reps and members

14 stories

Working peoples' last resort