Explore all stories - TUC 150 Stories

84 years of activism

Greater Manchester

The founding of the TUC

150 years on and going strong

Revolutionary Rosie

Mass Strike in Dublin 1913

The man who redefined the TUC

Global Solidarity

The 1889 London dockworkers’ strike

Five steps to success

Disabled workers

National League of the Blind

"Justice not Charity"

Clementina Black

Bristol bus boycott

Bristol’s forgotten civil rights scandal

The Jarrow March

Demanding a new deal

Ending discrimination on the buses

Dorothy Ratcliffe and Susan Crosby

Equal pay in Yorkshire school canteens

The first female president of the TUC

Dagenham Women’s Strike

How Ford’s striking women drove the Equal Pay Act

Margaret Bondfield

Shop floor rebel

Fighting back against sexual harassment

Health and Safety

Making London the safest Olympics ever

Keeping the family together

Founder of the NHS

Let Robeson Sing

Low Pay Commission

The weavers strike

Success for the first all-woman strike committee

Chris Braithwaite

Sailor, docker and activist

Health and Safety

Health and Safety Act 1974

Saving Steel Workers' Pensions

Pioneering trade unionist and suffragette

10 things you need to know

Demanding a minimum wage

7 things you should know

Everyday Heroes

Order of Industrial Heroism

Celebrating working heroes

Mary Bamber and Bessie Braddock

Like mother, like daughter

The Trico strike for equal pay

Eyewitness to Cable Street

Bringing socialism to Liverpool

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

Five things I learnt from being a union member

Alisdair Kairns

Not all glitz and glamour at the movies

Musician's Union

Four reasons why musicians need unions

Fighting for change at McDonalds

Apprenticeships

“An apprenticeship was a no-brainer”

“A union is about being united and working together”

Changing the conversation about mental health at work

A young postie with a passion for fairness

Dudley Hackling

‘It all comes down to communication and confidence’

Pauline Carwood

"30 years ago women didn't drive trains"

“A 200-word essay changed my life”

5 reasons for musicians to join a union

Squeezing our public service professionals

Millie Apedo-Amah

The vital role of a train guard

Building a culture of learning – at every level and background

Royal College of Midwives

Jillian Ireland and Sara Fripp

Singing it loud

Global Solidarity

From the college canteen to international leadership

Galvanising a community in times of strife

Health and Safety

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

Health and Safety

Janise Corsfield

“I’ve always been safety conscious”

Evelyn Martin MBE

A lifetime of learning

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

Health and Safety

60 seconds on a North Sea rig

Health and Safety

60 seconds at Sellafield

Yorkshire and Humber

Lisa Greenfield

“People always want to learn”

Satnam Singh Ner

Bringing diversity into the workplace

Squeezing our public sector professionals

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

Angela Rayner MP

A remarkable journey to Westminster

Gail Cartwright, Midwife

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Barry Downey, Firefighter

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Health and Safety

Alan Knight MBE

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

Public Services

Deborah Bell and Karen McArthur

The faces behind library losses

Disabled workers

Changing the narrative

Fighting for permanent contracts

Campaigning for paid holiday for everyone

The home of the British trade union movement

Cricket ball makers strike

Small but mighty

“Journalism was suddenly being equated with espionage”

Albert Mansbridge

Championing education for working people

Fiercely intelligent, influential and inspirational

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

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

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