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Women
Fair pay
Mary McArthur
Demanding a minimum wage
Women
Suffragettes
Julia Varley
Pioneering trade unionist and suffragette
BME workers
Solidarity
Bristol bus boycott
Bristol’s forgotten civil rights scandal
BME workers
Racism
Chris Braithwaite
Sailor, docker and activist
TUC
Everyday Heroes
Order of Industrial Heroism
Celebrating working heroes
Steel
Community
Brian Silver
Saving Steel Workers' Pensions
Women
Strikes
Revolutionary Rosie
Mass Strike in Dublin 1913
Minimum Wage
Women
Rita Donaghy
Low Pay Commission
Women
North west
Audrey White
Fighting back against sexual harassment
Solidarity
London
Mick Mindel
Eyewitness to Cable Street
BME workers
TUC
Mohammad Taj
Ending discrimination on the buses
Equal Pay
Yorkshire
Dorothy Ratcliffe and Susan Crosby
Equal pay in Yorkshire school canteens
Trade Unions
Leadership
Jack Jones
10 things you need to know
Strikes
Global Solidarity
The 1889 London dockworkers’ strike
Five steps to success
Solidarity
Wales
Paul Robeson
Let Robeson Sing
Women
TUC
Anne Loughlin
The first female president of the TUC
Strikes
Equal Pay
Sally Groves
The Trico strike for equal pay
Women
Labour
Mary Bamber and Bessie Braddock
Like mother, like daughter
Solidarity
Campaigns
The Jarrow March
Demanding a new deal
Women
Liverpool
Jeannie Mole
Bringing socialism to Liverpool
Equal Pay
Women
Betty Tebbs
84 years of activism
Health and Safety
Sport
Malcolm Davies
Making London the safest Olympics ever
Reps
Royal College of Midwives
Jillian Ireland and Sara Fripp
Singing it loud
UNISON
South west
Dudley Hackling
‘It all comes down to communication and confidence’
Public Services
Libraries
Deborah Bell and Karen McArthur
The faces behind library losses
Trains
RMT
Millie Apedo-Amah
The vital role of a train guard
Learning
CWU
Steve Croke
“A 200-word essay changed my life”
Rail
Women
Pauline Cawood
"30 years ago women didn't drive trains"
Education
South west
Sarah Smith
"Without my union, I wouldn't have survived"
Global Solidarity
Learning
Gladys Branche
From the college canteen to international leadership
Insecure Work
Reps
Dan Lewis
Fighting for permanent contracts
Young Workers
Strikes
Shen Batmaz
Fighting for change at McDonalds
Young Workers
Reps
Michael Goozee
A young postie with a passion for fairness
Insecure Work
Campaigns
Colin Hampton
Galvanising a community in times of strife
Health and Safety
Prospect
Helen Edwards
60 seconds at Sellafield
Young Workers
Learning
Hannah Slade
Building a culture of learning – at every level and background
Learning
BME workers
Evelyn Martin MBE
A lifetime of learning
Unite
Health and Safety
Tommy Timms
60 seconds on a North Sea rig
Football
Health and Safety
Alan Knight MBE
“I want to make sure young footballers don’t go through what I had to”
BME workers
Scotland
Satnam Singh Ner
Bringing diversity into the workplace
Public Sector
Midlands
Gail Cartwright, Midwife
Squeezing our public sector professionals
Education
Women
Tamsin Clube
“A union is about being united and working together”
Music
Young Workers
Becky Baldwin
5 reasons for musicians to join a union
Pay Squeeze
Physiotherapy
Rob Davies
Squeezing our public service professionals
Yorkshire and Humber
Bakers Union
Lisa Greenfield
“People always want to learn”
Firefighters
Public Sector
Barry Downey, Firefighter
Squeezing our public sector professionals
Public Sector
Pay Squeeze
Karen Smith
Squeezing our public sector professionals
GMB
Yorkshire and Humber
Jake O’Malley
Three steps to building a strong union
Sport
Strikes
Cricket ball makers strike
Small but mighty
London
Media
ABC Case
“Journalism was suddenly being equated with espionage”
Women
Leadership
Eleanor Marx
Fiercely intelligent, influential and inspirational
Learning
Education
Albert Mansbridge
Championing education for working people
TUC
Holiday Pay
Campaigning for paid holiday for everyone
TUC
Congress House
The home of the British trade union movement
6 stories
Black Workers
Fighting for racial equality
5 stories
A new deal for working people
Trade unionists demanding change
8 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
5 stories
Building safer workplaces
Protecting workers' health and safety
7 stories
Learning with your union
Because everyone has the right to an education
7 stories
HeartUnions
Celebrating the work of reps and members