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Taking on the print barons

Fighting wage slavery

The Wapping Dispute

Low Pay Commission

Bringing socialism to Liverpool

Miner, socialist, pacifist, leader

Revolutionary Rosie

Mass Strike in Dublin 1913

Everyday Heroes

Poet, socialist and trade union leader

7 things you should know

Trade union leader and all-round firebrand

Memories of the general strike

Campaigning for recognition

Clementina Black

Disabled workers

Creating the right balance for work and family life

Ricky Tomlinson

“My innocence has been proved time and again”

Disabled workers

National League of the Blind

"Justice not Charity"

"We are those lions, Mr Manager.”

Trade unions during WWII

Building relationships and boosting morale

Keeping the family together

10 things you need to know

A beacon of hope at GCHQ

Costing workers their jobs and their families

Health and Safety

Making London the safest Olympics ever

Dorothy Ratcliffe and Susan Crosby

Equal pay in Yorkshire school canteens

Everyday Heroes

Order of Industrial Heroism

Celebrating working heroes

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

Pioneering trade unionist and suffragette

Mary Bamber and Bessie Braddock

Like mother, like daughter

Saving Steel Workers' Pensions

Health and Safety

Samuel Plimsoll

The sailors' hero

Apprenticeships

Championing Young Workers

Global Solidarity

Supporting Polish trade unionists

Founder of the NHS

Let Robeson Sing

Eyewitness to Cable Street

The Trico strike for equal pay

The Woolf’s Strike

Organising migrant workers

Global Solidarity

Hans Gottfurcht

How the TUC helped to keep European unionism alive during WWII

Greater Manchester

The real-life hero from Pride

The weavers strike

Success for the first all-woman strike committee

Bristol bus boycott

Bristol’s forgotten civil rights scandal

Thirty years to equality at work

The first female president of the TUC

Best foot forward – from redundancy to a shoe business

The man who redefined the TUC

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

"A burning sense of what was just"

Margaret Bondfield

Shop floor rebel

Playing a blinder for women

Health and Safety

Joint Production Committees

Protecting workers

The Jarrow March

Demanding a new deal

Oliver Kilbourn

The Pitmen Painters

Global Solidarity

G.H. Stuart-Bunning

The International Labour Organisation

Fighting back against sexual harassment

Dagenham Women’s Strike

How Ford’s striking women drove the Equal Pay Act

The great Penrhyn quarry strike

Capturing the public imagination

Kevin Horne and Barbara Jackson

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

The pioneer behind 30 women’s trade unions

84 years of activism

The founding of the TUC

150 years on and going strong

Demanding a minimum wage

Chris Braithwaite

Sailor, docker and activist

Burston School Strike

The longest strike in history

Health and Safety

Health and Safety Act 1974

Global Solidarity

The 1889 London dockworkers’ strike

Five steps to success

The Tolpuddle Martyrs

Match Women’s Strike

Ending discrimination on the buses

Millie Apedo-Amah

The vital role of a train guard

Show the love – hug your school!

Anne Cox, headteacher

Evelyn Martin MBE

A lifetime of learning

Firefighter and FBU official

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Many routes to an education

Fighting for permanent contracts

Musician's Union

Four reasons why musicians need unions

Craig Johnstone

The Churchill Cleaners: five tips to winning a dispute

Why I came out as gay at a school assembly

Health and Safety

60 seconds on a North Sea rig

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

Health and Safety

60 seconds at Sellafield

People don’t say no enough

Gail Cartwright, Midwife

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Health and Safety

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

Queueing up to learn

Dudley Hackling

‘It all comes down to communication and confidence’

Changing the conversation about mental health at work

Canon Steven Saxby

Five reasons why faith workers need unions

Satnam Singh Ner

Bringing diversity into the workplace

Five ways my union supported my transition

“An outstanding trade unionist”

Galvanising a community in times of strife

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

Winning for care workers on zero-hours

Royal College of Midwives

Jillian Ireland and Sara Fripp

Singing it loud

Booking in time to destress

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

Global Solidarity

From the college canteen to international leadership

Building a culture of learning – at every level and background

Public Services

Deborah Bell and Karen McArthur

The faces behind library losses

Helping girls plan for life after football

Health and Safety

Janise Corsfield

“I’ve always been safety conscious”

Yorkshire and Humber

Lisa Greenfield

“People always want to learn”

“Actors have always been part of the gig economy”

Pauline Carwood

"30 years ago women didn't drive trains"

A young postie with a passion for fairness

Galvanising a community in times of strife

We turned something negative into something really positive

Fighting for change at McDonalds

Squeezing our public service professionals

Wasting no time to build a movement

Angela Rayner MP

A remarkable journey to Westminster

Alisdair Kairns

Not all glitz and glamour at the movies

Disabled workers

Changing the narrative

Five things I learnt from being a union member

“A union is about being united and working together”

Health and Safety

Alan Knight MBE

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

A no-nonsense approach on the shop floor

“A 200-word essay changed my life”

Barry Downey, Firefighter

Squeezing our public sector professionals

5 reasons for musicians to join a union

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

Supporting women survivors of violence

“The classes are a great networking event.”

Yorkshire and Humber

Jake O’Malley

Three steps to building a strong union

Knocking on every door

Charlotte Gardner

Leading a network of 50 reps

Apprenticeships

“An apprenticeship was a no-brainer”

Albert Mansbridge

Championing education for working people

The home of the British trade union movement

Fiercely intelligent, influential and inspirational

People’s March for Jobs

Campaigning for paid holiday for everyone

Cricket ball makers strike

Small but mighty

“Journalism was suddenly being equated with espionage”

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