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Fighting wage slavery

Costing workers their jobs and their families

The Jarrow March

Demanding a new deal

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

Clementina Black

Mary Bamber and Bessie Braddock

Like mother, like daughter

7 things you should know

Low Pay Commission

Revolutionary Rosie

Mass Strike in Dublin 1913

Health and Safety

Making London the safest Olympics ever

The Woolf’s Strike

Organising migrant workers

Thirty years to equality at work

Memories of the general strike

Disabled workers

National League of the Blind

"Justice not Charity"

Kevin Horne and Barbara Jackson

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

Best foot forward – from redundancy to a shoe business

Disabled workers

Creating the right balance for work and family life

Oliver Kilbourn

The Pitmen Painters

Eyewitness to Cable Street

Founder of the NHS

"We are those lions, Mr Manager.”

10 things you need to know

Ricky Tomlinson

“My innocence has been proved time and again”

Everyday Heroes

Poet, socialist and trade union leader

Global Solidarity

The 1889 London dockworkers’ strike

Five steps to success

Playing a blinder for women

Pioneering trade unionist and suffragette

Global Solidarity

Supporting Polish trade unionists

Margaret Bondfield

Shop floor rebel

Let Robeson Sing

The man who redefined the TUC

Global Solidarity

G.H. Stuart-Bunning

The International Labour Organisation

Trade union leader and all-round firebrand

Everyday Heroes

Order of Industrial Heroism

Celebrating working heroes

84 years of activism

The pioneer behind 30 women’s trade unions

Fighting back against sexual harassment

Saving Steel Workers' Pensions

The real-life hero from Pride

Dorothy Ratcliffe and Susan Crosby

Equal pay in Yorkshire school canteens

The weavers strike

Success for the first all-woman strike committee

A beacon of hope at GCHQ

The Wapping Dispute

Keeping the family together

Bristol bus boycott

Bristol’s forgotten civil rights scandal

"A burning sense of what was just"

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

Health and Safety

Joint Production Committees

Protecting workers

Global Solidarity

Hans Gottfurcht

How the TUC helped to keep European unionism alive during WWII

Match Women’s Strike

Trade unions during WWII

Building relationships and boosting morale

Burston School Strike

The longest strike in history

The founding of the TUC

150 years on and going strong

The Tolpuddle Martyrs

Taking on the print barons

The first female president of the TUC

Campaigning for recognition

Dagenham Women’s Strike

How Ford’s striking women drove the Equal Pay Act

Health and Safety

Samuel Plimsoll

The sailors' hero

Miner, socialist, pacifist, leader

Greater Manchester

Demanding a minimum wage

Chris Braithwaite

Sailor, docker and activist

Ending discrimination on the buses

Health and Safety

Health and Safety Act 1974

Apprenticeships

Championing Young Workers

Bringing socialism to Liverpool

The Trico strike for equal pay

The great Penrhyn quarry strike

Capturing the public imagination

Health and Safety

Janise Corsfield

“I’ve always been safety conscious”

Pauline Carwood

"30 years ago women didn't drive trains"

Musician's Union

Four reasons why musicians need unions

Public Services

Deborah Bell and Karen McArthur

The faces behind library losses

A young postie with a passion for fairness

Royal College of Midwives

Jillian Ireland and Sara Fripp

Singing it loud

Millie Apedo-Amah

The vital role of a train guard

Apprenticeships

“An apprenticeship was a no-brainer”

Global Solidarity

From the college canteen to international leadership

Helping girls plan for life after football

Gail Cartwright, Midwife

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Squeezing our public service professionals

Satnam Singh Ner

Bringing diversity into the workplace

Galvanising a community in times of strife

Craig Johnstone

The Churchill Cleaners: five tips to winning a dispute

Angela Rayner MP

A remarkable journey to Westminster

Five things I learnt from being a union member

Booking in time to destress

5 reasons for musicians to join a union

Yorkshire and Humber

Jake O’Malley

Three steps to building a strong union

“A union is about being united and working together”

Queueing up to learn

Disabled workers

Changing the narrative

Changing the conversation about mental health at work

Supporting women survivors of violence

“Actors have always been part of the gig economy”

Many routes to an education

Health and Safety

60 seconds at Sellafield

Health and Safety

60 seconds on a North Sea rig

“A 200-word essay changed my life”

Barry Downey, Firefighter

Squeezing our public sector professionals

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

Dudley Hackling

‘It all comes down to communication and confidence’

Yorkshire and Humber

Lisa Greenfield

“People always want to learn”

Why I came out as gay at a school assembly

Canon Steven Saxby

Five reasons why faith workers need unions

Health and Safety

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

Alisdair Kairns

Not all glitz and glamour at the movies

“The classes are a great networking event.”

Firefighter and FBU official

A no-nonsense approach on the shop floor

Knocking on every door

Galvanising a community in times of strife

We turned something negative into something really positive

People don’t say no enough

Health and Safety

Alan Knight MBE

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

Winning for care workers on zero-hours

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

Wasting no time to build a movement

Squeezing our public sector professionals

Charlotte Gardner

Leading a network of 50 reps

Show the love – hug your school!

Anne Cox, headteacher

Evelyn Martin MBE

A lifetime of learning

Fighting for permanent contracts

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

Fighting for change at McDonalds

Building a culture of learning – at every level and background

“An outstanding trade unionist”

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

Five ways my union supported my transition

Cricket ball makers strike

Small but mighty

People’s March for Jobs

Fiercely intelligent, influential and inspirational

“Journalism was suddenly being equated with espionage”

The home of the British trade union movement

Albert Mansbridge

Championing education for working people

Campaigning for paid holiday for everyone

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