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Demanding a minimum wage

Let Robeson Sing

Trade unions during WWII

Building relationships and boosting morale

Bristol bus boycott

Bristol’s forgotten civil rights scandal

Fighting wage slavery

Bringing socialism to Liverpool

Fighting back against sexual harassment

Campaigning for recognition

Clementina Black

Saving Steel Workers' Pensions

Trade union leader and all-round firebrand

Ricky Tomlinson

“My innocence has been proved time and again”

Health and Safety

Joint Production Committees

Protecting workers

7 things you should know

Thirty years to equality at work

Playing a blinder for women

Miner, socialist, pacifist, leader

Dorothy Ratcliffe and Susan Crosby

Equal pay in Yorkshire school canteens

Low Pay Commission

Chris Braithwaite

Sailor, docker and activist

The Woolf’s Strike

Organising migrant workers

Apprenticeships

Championing Young Workers

Oliver Kilbourn

The Pitmen Painters

Health and Safety

Making London the safest Olympics ever

Revolutionary Rosie

Mass Strike in Dublin 1913

Kevin Horne and Barbara Jackson

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

The Jarrow March

Demanding a new deal

Global Solidarity

G.H. Stuart-Bunning

The International Labour Organisation

Global Solidarity

Supporting Polish trade unionists

The great Penrhyn quarry strike

Capturing the public imagination

"A burning sense of what was just"

Keeping the family together

10 things you need to know

Everyday Heroes

Order of Industrial Heroism

Celebrating working heroes

The man who redefined the TUC

Dagenham Women’s Strike

How Ford’s striking women drove the Equal Pay Act

Match Women’s Strike

Greater Manchester

Taking on the print barons

Costing workers their jobs and their families

The weavers strike

Success for the first all-woman strike committee

84 years of activism

Best foot forward – from redundancy to a shoe business

Everyday Heroes

Poet, socialist and trade union leader

Health and Safety

Samuel Plimsoll

The sailors' hero

Ending discrimination on the buses

The Wapping Dispute

Burston School Strike

The longest strike in history

Mary Bamber and Bessie Braddock

Like mother, like daughter

Disabled workers

National League of the Blind

"Justice not Charity"

Memories of the general strike

"We are those lions, Mr Manager.”

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

Global Solidarity

The 1889 London dockworkers’ strike

Five steps to success

Pioneering trade unionist and suffragette

Founder of the NHS

The Tolpuddle Martyrs

The first female president of the TUC

The founding of the TUC

150 years on and going strong

Disabled workers

Creating the right balance for work and family life

Margaret Bondfield

Shop floor rebel

The pioneer behind 30 women’s trade unions

Global Solidarity

Hans Gottfurcht

How the TUC helped to keep European unionism alive during WWII

Eyewitness to Cable Street

A beacon of hope at GCHQ

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

The real-life hero from Pride

Health and Safety

Health and Safety Act 1974

Why I came out as gay at a school assembly

Musician's Union

Four reasons why musicians need unions

Building a culture of learning – at every level and background

Galvanising a community in times of strife

People don’t say no enough

Wasting no time to build a movement

Five things I learnt from being a union member

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

Queueing up to learn

Evelyn Martin MBE

A lifetime of learning

We turned something negative into something really positive

Apprenticeships

“An apprenticeship was a no-brainer”

Satnam Singh Ner

Bringing diversity into the workplace

Alisdair Kairns

Not all glitz and glamour at the movies

Health and Safety

Janise Corsfield

“I’ve always been safety conscious”

“The classes are a great networking event.”

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

Global Solidarity

From the college canteen to international leadership

Fighting for change at McDonalds

Health and Safety

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

Show the love – hug your school!

Anne Cox, headteacher

Many routes to an education

Changing the conversation about mental health at work

Dudley Hackling

‘It all comes down to communication and confidence’

Firefighter and FBU official

Royal College of Midwives

Jillian Ireland and Sara Fripp

Singing it loud

Disabled workers

Changing the narrative

A young postie with a passion for fairness

Galvanising a community in times of strife

Public Services

Deborah Bell and Karen McArthur

The faces behind library losses

Five ways my union supported my transition

Canon Steven Saxby

Five reasons why faith workers need unions

Health and Safety

60 seconds at Sellafield

Health and Safety

60 seconds on a North Sea rig

Health and Safety

Alan Knight MBE

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

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

A no-nonsense approach on the shop floor

Squeezing our public service professionals

Booking in time to destress

“A union is about being united and working together”

Yorkshire and Humber

Lisa Greenfield

“People always want to learn”

Barry Downey, Firefighter

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Fighting for permanent contracts

Pauline Carwood

"30 years ago women didn't drive trains"

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Yorkshire and Humber

Jake O’Malley

Three steps to building a strong union

“A 200-word essay changed my life”

Angela Rayner MP

A remarkable journey to Westminster

Supporting women survivors of violence

Millie Apedo-Amah

The vital role of a train guard

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

“An outstanding trade unionist”

Craig Johnstone

The Churchill Cleaners: five tips to winning a dispute

5 reasons for musicians to join a union

Charlotte Gardner

Leading a network of 50 reps

Helping girls plan for life after football

Gail Cartwright, Midwife

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Knocking on every door

“Actors have always been part of the gig economy”

Winning for care workers on zero-hours

“Journalism was suddenly being equated with espionage”

Fiercely intelligent, influential and inspirational

Campaigning for paid holiday for everyone

Cricket ball makers strike

Small but mighty

People’s March for Jobs

The home of the British trade union movement

Albert Mansbridge

Championing education for working people

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

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