Average pay for FTSE 100 chiefs jumps by 39% to £3.4m Study shows median CEO package has surpassed pre-pandemic levels with rate 109 times that of average UK worker The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2022
Unions on brink of ‘synchronised’ strikes, says RMT’s Mick Lynch Railway workers leader predicts ‘massive response’ to impact of rapidly rising inflation on wages The Guardian - UK · Aug 18, 2022
Union heads respond angrily to Liz Truss’s claim UK workers lack ‘graft’ TUC’s Frances O’Grady says employees need a pay rise not ‘a lecture on working harder’ The Guardian - UK · Aug 17, 2022
Government urged to classify Covid as an occupational disease TUC calls on Department for Work and Pensions to make move to help workers access key benefits The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2022
There Is Still Time To 'Short European Assets,' Analyst Says, Points To Wage, Recession Data Workers in the United Kingdom are set for the “worst real wage squeeze” among G7 nations, new Trade Union Congress (TUC) analysis of The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) figures revealed in mid-July, and one analyst thinks it’s safe to short European assets, like the Euro Benzinga · Aug 13, 2022
UK energy bills ‘set to cost two months’ wages’, ministers warned TUC calls for October energy price cap rise to be cancelled as chancellor tells firms to invest ‘extraordinary profits’ The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2022
Biggest UK fall in real wages for 100 years looms, warns TUC Study shows pay rises could fall behind inflation by 8% later this year, an unprecedented drop in living standards The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2022
How hot does it have to be to legally leave work? Summer in England brings high temperatures The Independent UK · Aug 10, 2022
Rail union chief Mick Lynch says he'd back a general strike over cost-of-living disaster There has not been a general strike since 1926 and it's thought to be an unlikely prospect. But the RMT's Mick Lynch said 'if they call it we’ll support it, absolutely' Daily Mirror · Aug 9, 2022
How hot does it have to get before you can leave work early? Your rights explained What is the maximum working temperature in the UK before you can stop working? We take a look at your rights after some parts of the UK reached 30C this weekend Daily Mirror · Aug 9, 2022
How hot does it have to be to legally leave work? Summer in England brings high temperatures The Independent UK · Aug 8, 2022
41 percent of kids in key worker families in North East living in poverty One in five kids from key worker families are living in poverty across the UK with that number more than double in the North East, according to analysis undertaken for the TUC Chronicle Live · Aug 5, 2022
Child poverty increasing in key worker households, warns TUC Study suggests number has risen by 65,000 in two years Wales Online · Aug 5, 2022
1 in 5 kids from key worker families are living in poverty - see which area hit hardest The analysis, undertaken for the TUC by Landman Economic, shows kids from key worker families in the North East are suffering the most, with 41 per cent living in poverty. Daily Mirror · Aug 4, 2022
The Independent UK · Jul 27, 2022 Union fury over threat to right to strike, as rail dispute hits millions ‘Fierce and prolonged resistance’: Clampdown on industrial action branded anti-democratic
Daily Mirror · Jul 26, 2022 Train strikes: Union chief Mick Lynch says 'we MUST fight Tory war on workers' RMT chief Mick Lynch accused Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss of being extremists who want to crush unions. He hit back at claims striking staff are holding the country to ransom
The Independent UK · Jul 21, 2022 How hot does it have to be to legally leave work? Summer in England brings high temperatures
Birmingham Post · Jul 21, 2022 Earnings are up across the East Midlands - but failing to keep up with the level of inflation TUC calls cost of living crisis 'the worst pay squeeze in modern history'
The Independent UK · Jul 20, 2022 How hot does it have to be to legally leave work? Summer in England brings high temperatures
Daily Mirror · Jul 19, 2022 Liz Truss secretly plotted to hit public sector workers with 'big stick' on pay A leaked recording of a private meeting with Treasury officials, obtained by the Mirror, prompted claims Liz Truss had adopted a "cynical and deliberate strategy" of holding down public sector pay
The Independent UK · Jul 19, 2022 Nurses, teachers and police get pay rises of 4-5%, as unions prepare for strike action Unions say below-inflation increases ‘kick in the teeth’ for Britain’s key workers
The National (Scotland) · Jul 19, 2022 Staff should be sent home if temperatures reach 30 degrees, unions demand As Scotland and the UK see record heat levels this week, unions and politicians have called for the introduction of a maximum workplace temperature
Daily Mirror · Jul 19, 2022 Real wages suffer worse plummet on record as cost of living crisis hammers UK UK workers are suffering 'the worst pay squeeze in modern history' after regular wages plunged 2.8% compared to inflation - outstripping the last financial crash
The Independent UK · Jul 19, 2022 How hot does it have to be to legally leave work? Summer in England brings high temperatures
Edinburgh Live · Jul 18, 2022 Unions call for legal protection for workers as heatwave sees temperatures soar As temperatures rise across the UK to record breaking numbers, unions are calling for legal protection for workers with a limit to how hot the workplace can be before it is unsafe to work.