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The Trico strike for equal pay

Fighting wage slavery

Dagenham Women’s Strike

How Ford’s striking women drove the Equal Pay Act

Campaigning for recognition

Let Robeson Sing

Thirty years to equality at work

The weavers strike

Success for the first all-woman strike committee

Global Solidarity

The 1889 London dockworkers’ strike

Five steps to success

Miner, socialist, pacifist, leader

Burston School Strike

The longest strike in history

Founder of the NHS

Revolutionary Rosie

Mass Strike in Dublin 1913

Global Solidarity

G.H. Stuart-Bunning

The International Labour Organisation

Oliver Kilbourn

The Pitmen Painters

A beacon of hope at GCHQ

Demanding a minimum wage

Health and Safety

Making London the safest Olympics ever

"We are those lions, Mr Manager.”

Health and Safety

Joint Production Committees

Protecting workers

Disabled workers

National League of the Blind

"Justice not Charity"

Taking on the print barons

The Woolf’s Strike

Organising migrant workers

"A burning sense of what was just"

7 things you should know

The Wapping Dispute

Margaret Bondfield

Shop floor rebel

The first female president of the TUC

Trade unions during WWII

Building relationships and boosting morale

Keeping the family together

10 things you need to know

Ending discrimination on the buses

Trade union leader and all-round firebrand

Everyday Heroes

Poet, socialist and trade union leader

Memories of the general strike

The Tolpuddle Martyrs

Bristol bus boycott

Bristol’s forgotten civil rights scandal

Apprenticeships

Championing Young Workers

Mary Bamber and Bessie Braddock

Like mother, like daughter

Best foot forward – from redundancy to a shoe business

Bringing socialism to Liverpool

Low Pay Commission

Eyewitness to Cable Street

Global Solidarity

Hans Gottfurcht

How the TUC helped to keep European unionism alive during WWII

Costing workers their jobs and their families

The man who redefined the TUC

The founding of the TUC

150 years on and going strong

Fighting back against sexual harassment

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

Match Women’s Strike

Chris Braithwaite

Sailor, docker and activist

The Jarrow March

Demanding a new deal

Kevin Horne and Barbara Jackson

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

Greater Manchester

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

84 years of activism

Dorothy Ratcliffe and Susan Crosby

Equal pay in Yorkshire school canteens

Disabled workers

Creating the right balance for work and family life

The great Penrhyn quarry strike

Capturing the public imagination

Ricky Tomlinson

“My innocence has been proved time and again”

Clementina Black

The real-life hero from Pride

The pioneer behind 30 women’s trade unions

Saving Steel Workers' Pensions

Health and Safety

Samuel Plimsoll

The sailors' hero

Health and Safety

Health and Safety Act 1974

Pioneering trade unionist and suffragette

Everyday Heroes

Order of Industrial Heroism

Celebrating working heroes

Global Solidarity

Supporting Polish trade unionists

Playing a blinder for women

People don’t say no enough

Canon Steven Saxby

Five reasons why faith workers need unions

Health and Safety

Janise Corsfield

“I’ve always been safety conscious”

Health and Safety

Alan Knight MBE

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

Building a culture of learning – at every level and background

Five ways my union supported my transition

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

Firefighter and FBU official

Fighting for change at McDonalds

We turned something negative into something really positive

Evelyn Martin MBE

A lifetime of learning

Show the love – hug your school!

Anne Cox, headteacher

A young postie with a passion for fairness

Fighting for permanent contracts

Yorkshire and Humber

Lisa Greenfield

“People always want to learn”

Supporting women survivors of violence

Alisdair Kairns

Not all glitz and glamour at the movies

Global Solidarity

From the college canteen to international leadership

Gail Cartwright, Midwife

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Apprenticeships

“An apprenticeship was a no-brainer”

Squeezing our public service professionals

Public Services

Deborah Bell and Karen McArthur

The faces behind library losses

Musician's Union

Four reasons why musicians need unions

Queueing up to learn

Wasting no time to build a movement

“Actors have always been part of the gig economy”

Winning for care workers on zero-hours

Many routes to an education

Satnam Singh Ner

Bringing diversity into the workplace

Health and Safety

60 seconds on a North Sea rig

Health and Safety

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

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

Galvanising a community in times of strife

Booking in time to destress

Barry Downey, Firefighter

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Disabled workers

Changing the narrative

Helping girls plan for life after football

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

Why I came out as gay at a school assembly

“A union is about being united and working together”

Galvanising a community in times of strife

“A 200-word essay changed my life”

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Dudley Hackling

‘It all comes down to communication and confidence’

5 reasons for musicians to join a union

“The classes are a great networking event.”

Charlotte Gardner

Leading a network of 50 reps

“An outstanding trade unionist”

Angela Rayner MP

A remarkable journey to Westminster

Five things I learnt from being a union member

A no-nonsense approach on the shop floor

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

Yorkshire and Humber

Jake O’Malley

Three steps to building a strong union

Royal College of Midwives

Jillian Ireland and Sara Fripp

Singing it loud

Changing the conversation about mental health at work

Knocking on every door

Pauline Carwood

"30 years ago women didn't drive trains"

Millie Apedo-Amah

The vital role of a train guard

Health and Safety

60 seconds at Sellafield

Craig Johnstone

The Churchill Cleaners: five tips to winning a dispute

“Journalism was suddenly being equated with espionage”

Albert Mansbridge

Championing education for working people

The home of the British trade union movement

Campaigning for paid holiday for everyone

Fiercely intelligent, influential and inspirational

People’s March for Jobs

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