Explore all stories - TUC 150 Stories

Mary Bamber and Bessie Braddock

Like mother, like daughter

Global Solidarity

The 1889 London dockworkers’ strike

Five steps to success

Helping girls plan for life after football

Demanding a minimum wage

Dagenham Women’s Strike

How Ford’s striking women drove the Equal Pay Act

Bristol bus boycott

Bristol’s forgotten civil rights scandal

Keeping the family together

84 years of activism

Health and Safety

Making London the safest Olympics ever

Revolutionary Rosie

Mass Strike in Dublin 1913

The first female president of the TUC

Trade union leader and all-round firebrand

The Jarrow March

Demanding a new deal

Eyewitness to Cable Street

Saving Steel Workers' Pensions

Chris Braithwaite

Sailor, docker and activist

Let Robeson Sing

Bringing socialism to Liverpool

Dorothy Ratcliffe and Susan Crosby

Equal pay in Yorkshire school canteens

The Tolpuddle Martyrs

Everyday Heroes

Order of Industrial Heroism

Celebrating working heroes

The weavers strike

Success for the first all-woman strike committee

The man who redefined the TUC

The founding of the TUC

150 years on and going strong

The Trico strike for equal pay

Greater Manchester

Pioneering trade unionist and suffragette

Margaret Bondfield

Shop floor rebel

Disabled workers

National League of the Blind

"Justice not Charity"

Fighting back against sexual harassment

Health and Safety

Health and Safety Act 1974

7 things you should know

Founder of the NHS

Clementina Black

10 things you need to know

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

Low Pay Commission

Match Women’s Strike

Ending discrimination on the buses

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Fighting for change at McDonalds

Apprenticeships

“An apprenticeship was a no-brainer”

Building a culture of learning – at every level and background

“A union is about being united and working together”

Musician's Union

Four reasons why musicians need unions

Squeezing our public service professionals

Global Solidarity

From the college canteen to international leadership

Galvanising a community in times of strife

Gail Cartwright, Midwife

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Yorkshire and Humber

Jake O’Malley

Three steps to building a strong union

“A 200-word essay changed my life”

Health and Safety

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

Royal College of Midwives

Jillian Ireland and Sara Fripp

Singing it loud

Satnam Singh Ner

Bringing diversity into the workplace

Fighting for permanent contracts

5 reasons for musicians to join a union

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

Public Services

Deborah Bell and Karen McArthur

The faces behind library losses

Angela Rayner MP

A remarkable journey to Westminster

Health and Safety

Janise Corsfield

“I’ve always been safety conscious”

Five things I learnt from being a union member

Evelyn Martin MBE

A lifetime of learning

Pauline Carwood

"30 years ago women didn't drive trains"

Millie Apedo-Amah

The vital role of a train guard

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

Barry Downey, Firefighter

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Yorkshire and Humber

Lisa Greenfield

“People always want to learn”

Alisdair Kairns

Not all glitz and glamour at the movies

A young postie with a passion for fairness

Health and Safety

Alan Knight MBE

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

Health and Safety

60 seconds at Sellafield

Why I came out as gay at a school assembly

Disabled workers

Changing the narrative

Health and Safety

60 seconds on a North Sea rig

Dudley Hackling

‘It all comes down to communication and confidence’

Changing the conversation about mental health at work

Albert Mansbridge

Championing education for working people

Campaigning for paid holiday for everyone

“Journalism was suddenly being equated with espionage”

Fiercely intelligent, influential and inspirational

The home of the British trade union movement

Cricket ball makers strike

Small but mighty

13 stories

Fighting for the future

4 stories

Disabled Workers

Challenging stereotypes

6 stories

Fighting for racial equality

5 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

9 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