All news on the topic: Trades Union Congress
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Tories reforms could mean workers do longer shifts in 'boost for bad bosses'
Union leaders warned people would be working 'excessive hours' if vital EU rules are scrapped and called the move the 'latest attack' on working people's rights by the Tories
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Millions of workers 'will lose right to strike' if Sack the Nurses Bill made law
The TUC warned that 5.5 million people across the country face being hit by the Minimum Service Levels, which will be debated in the House of Lords today
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Keir Starmer hails local elections result as Tories lose 1,000 seats
The result means Labour now has more councillors than any other party – the first time it has been the largest party in local government since 2002
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Drop the 'Sack the Nurses Bill', 100 politicians from around world tell Tories
Politicians from 18 countries including Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Spain condemned the Tory government's attack on the right to strike
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UK's richest fatcats get gigantic 40 percent pay rise - six times average salary
The Mirror analysed figures for all 60 FTSE 100 companies that have published annual reports this year. We looked at total packages for 120 bosses - of those, 54 earned more than last year and 49 made less
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Cost of living 'nightmare' to get even worse - 9 vital questions answered
The Office for National Statistics said we last month paid 19% more on a weekly shop, the highest since 1977. Some items have gone up seven times faster than average wages
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Workers should get sick pay from first day they are ill, demand top Tories
Ex-Cabinet ministers Priti Patel and Robert Buckland warned that efforts to get people back into work "risk being held back” by tight-fisted rules on Statutory Sick Pay
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Anger over 'shameful' Tory 'backtrack' on workplace harassment law shake-up
Labour's Angela Rayner has accused Tories of "turning their backs on women" by blocking new legislation making employers liable for harassment staff experience at work
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Unions warn stability in Ireland threatened if Tories rip up workers' rights
In a statement ahead of the 25-year anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the Trades Union Congress and trade unions in Northern Ireland urge Rishi Sunak to ditch a bonfire of EU regulations
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It's April Fuel's Day as families face another hike in energy bills
Leap comes after Tories scrapped support package which gave households an extra £400 to cover soaring costs and replaced it with more targeted aid
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Hike sick pay in line with wages so ill workers can take time off, voters demand
General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress Paul Nowak says millions of people get just £99-a-week - 'nothing like what a family needs to get by'
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Tories have overseen worst living standards drop in modern times, study finds
Damning analysis by the TUC ruled that by next year, household disposable incomes will have fallen for nearly half of the time the Conservatives have been in office
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Energy bill warning as 5.5million households 'will pay up to £160 more' in weeks
On average, customers who pay for their enery on receipt of their bills will end up paying £160 more than those who pay by direct debit or through a prepayment meter
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Tory 'Sack the Nurses Bill' would breach human rights, find experts
The Joint Committee on Human Rights is calling on ministers to reconsider 'draconian' anti-strike legislation that would make it easier to sack workers who head to picket lines
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Government 'hiding £28 billion cuts in smoke and mirrors budget' claim
The TUC has published a study by the New Economics Foundation (NEF), accusing the government of playing "smoke and mirrors" with its figures
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Women have worked from January 1st to today for FREE in gender pay gap grows
The Trade Union Congress said its study suggested that the average woman in paid employment effectively works for free for nearly two months of the year compared to the average man
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Tory austerity chancellor George Osborne 'must appear at Covid Inquiry' call
Campaigners have demanded that Mr Osborne, who unleashed a devastating assault on public services after the Conservatives took power in 2010, answers questions over whether this led to thousands of Covid deaths
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Campaigners warning over US tech giant's NHS links as deadline for deal looms
Palantir is in the running for a major contract with the health service, with the initial deadline for applying for the bumper bonanza later this week
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Sunak branded 'pathetic' for attempt to pin blame on Labour for mass strikes
The Labour leader Keir Starmer made the comment at Prime Minister's Questions as up to half a million people take part in strike action - the biggest industrial action the country has has seen in over a decade
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Teachers, civil servants and train drivers walk out in biggest strike in decade
Today's walkouts by five unions will be biggest day of strike action since 2011 - and will coincide with mass protests by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) against the Government's anti-strike legislation
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'Britain must stand together to protect right to strike as Tories attack'
In an article for the Mirror, TUC general secretary Paul Nowak called on workers across the country to support its Protect the Right to Strike campaign day on Wednesday
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Union chief demands summit with Rishi Sunak to end wave of strikes
New TUC boss Paul Nowak told the Sunday Mirror in an exclusive interview: “The PM must get me and union leaders into the room to sort this out. We’ll go to No10 tomorrow. The ball is in his court.”
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Rishi Sunak branded 'lightweight Thatcher tribute act' by veteran union boss
Former TUC General Secretary John Monks told the Mirror there has been a dislike of trade unions within the Tories ever since Margaret Thatcher succeeded Ted Heath in 1975
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UK's public services at breaking point - it's time to protect right to strike
Today, the Mirror joins with the TUC and many others in fighting this assault on working people, and the unions they organise within, to Protect The Right To Strike
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New 'fire & rehire' rules 'not stopping' another P&O-type scandal, union warns
Labour's Angela Rayner and the Trades Union Congress have slammed the Government's "shameful" new rules to tackle fire and rehire practices, saying it is just a "reheated" and "repeated" regulation
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