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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”

Dagenham Women’s Strike

How Ford’s striking women drove the Equal Pay Act

Pioneering trade unionist and suffragette

Burston School Strike

The longest strike in history

The pioneer behind 30 women’s trade unions

Costing workers their jobs and their families

10 things you need to know

"We are those lions, Mr Manager.”

Campaigning for recognition

Fighting back against sexual harassment

Revolutionary Rosie

Mass Strike in Dublin 1913

Health and Safety

Samuel Plimsoll

The sailors' hero

The founding of the TUC

150 years on and going strong

A beacon of hope at GCHQ

Miner, socialist, pacifist, leader

Clementina Black

The Tolpuddle Martyrs

Best foot forward – from redundancy to a shoe business

Fighting wage slavery

Bringing socialism to Liverpool

Ending discrimination on the buses

Everyday Heroes

Order of Industrial Heroism

Celebrating working heroes

The Jarrow March

Demanding a new deal

Global Solidarity

The 1889 London dockworkers’ strike

Five steps to success

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

Saving Steel Workers' Pensions

Oliver Kilbourn

The Pitmen Painters

Memories of the general strike

Bristol bus boycott

Bristol’s forgotten civil rights scandal

The real-life hero from Pride

The Trico strike for equal pay

"A burning sense of what was just"

Let Robeson Sing

Founder of the NHS

The weavers strike

Success for the first all-woman strike committee

Trade union leader and all-round firebrand

Mary Bamber and Bessie Braddock

Like mother, like daughter

Eyewitness to Cable Street

Match Women’s Strike

Apprenticeships

Championing Young Workers

The Woolf’s Strike

Organising migrant workers

Disabled workers

Creating the right balance for work and family life

7 things you should know

The man who redefined the TUC

Global Solidarity

Hans Gottfurcht

How the TUC helped to keep European unionism alive during WWII

Everyday Heroes

Poet, socialist and trade union leader

Global Solidarity

G.H. Stuart-Bunning

The International Labour Organisation

Health and Safety

Health and Safety Act 1974

The first female president of the TUC

84 years of activism

Taking on the print barons

Disabled workers

National League of the Blind

"Justice not Charity"

Chris Braithwaite

Sailor, docker and activist

Margaret Bondfield

Shop floor rebel

Thirty years to equality at work

Low Pay Commission

Demanding a minimum wage

Trade unions during WWII

Building relationships and boosting morale

The Wapping Dispute

Global Solidarity

Supporting Polish trade unionists

Dorothy Ratcliffe and Susan Crosby

Equal pay in Yorkshire school canteens

Playing a blinder for women

Ricky Tomlinson

“My innocence has been proved time and again”

Keeping the family together

Health and Safety

Joint Production Committees

Protecting workers

Health and Safety

Making London the safest Olympics ever

The great Penrhyn quarry strike

Capturing the public imagination

“A 200-word essay changed my life”

Health and Safety

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

Helping girls plan for life after football

Angela Rayner MP

A remarkable journey to Westminster

“Actors have always been part of the gig economy”

Knocking on every door

Yorkshire and Humber

Jake O’Malley

Three steps to building a strong union

Disabled workers

Changing the narrative

Galvanising a community in times of strife

Health and Safety

60 seconds on a North Sea rig

Fighting for change at McDonalds

People don’t say no enough

We turned something negative into something really positive

“A union is about being united and working together”

Gail Cartwright, Midwife

Squeezing our public sector professionals

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

Global Solidarity

From the college canteen to international leadership

Musician's Union

Four reasons why musicians need unions

Millie Apedo-Amah

The vital role of a train guard

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

Winning for care workers on zero-hours

Firefighter and FBU official

Charlotte Gardner

Leading a network of 50 reps

Craig Johnstone

The Churchill Cleaners: five tips to winning a dispute

Health and Safety

Janise Corsfield

“I’ve always been safety conscious”

Alisdair Kairns

Not all glitz and glamour at the movies

Yorkshire and Humber

Lisa Greenfield

“People always want to learn”

Dudley Hackling

‘It all comes down to communication and confidence’

A young postie with a passion for fairness

A no-nonsense approach on the shop floor

Wasting no time to build a movement

Public Services

Deborah Bell and Karen McArthur

The faces behind library losses

Pauline Carwood

"30 years ago women didn't drive trains"

Building a culture of learning – at every level and background

Why I came out as gay at a school assembly

Show the love – hug your school!

Anne Cox, headteacher

Galvanising a community in times of strife

Health and Safety

Alan Knight MBE

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

“An outstanding trade unionist”

Queueing up to learn

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Squeezing our public service professionals

Barry Downey, Firefighter

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Canon Steven Saxby

Five reasons why faith workers need unions

5 reasons for musicians to join a union

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

Five ways my union supported my transition

Evelyn Martin MBE

A lifetime of learning

Many routes to an education

Royal College of Midwives

Jillian Ireland and Sara Fripp

Singing it loud

Five things I learnt from being a union member

Booking in time to destress

Satnam Singh Ner

Bringing diversity into the workplace

“The classes are a great networking event.”

Supporting women survivors of violence

Apprenticeships

“An apprenticeship was a no-brainer”

Health and Safety

60 seconds at Sellafield

Changing the conversation about mental health at work

Fighting for permanent contracts

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

Fiercely intelligent, influential and inspirational

People’s March for Jobs

Campaigning for paid holiday for everyone

“Journalism was suddenly being equated with espionage”

The home of the British trade union movement

Albert Mansbridge

Championing education for working people

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