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Keir Starmer confronted over two-child benefit cap after TUC speech

KEIR Starmer was confronted over his refusal to scrap the two-child benefit cap by trade unionists – as he said he would make “no apologies”…

The National (Scotland) · Sep 10, 2024

UK's Starmer Vows 'Partnership' With Unions But Warns On Pay

Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday pledged to reset industrial relations strained by widespread strike action, as he became the first UK leader to address the annual meeting of Britain's trade unions in 15 years.

International Business Times · Sep 10, 2024

Watch: Starmer addresses unions after threatening to cut pensioners’ winter fuel payments

Watch as Sir Keir Starmer addressed the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton on Tuesday, 10 September, after its president warned that a second wave of austerity will boost the rise of the far right in Britain’s left-behind communities.

The Independent UK · Sep 10, 2024

Winter fuel payment cuts will aid rise of far right and Farage, TUC president warns Starmer

Exclusive: TUC president Matt Wrack tells The Independent the rise of Nigel Farage and summer riots should be ‘a wake up call’ for Keir Starmer to ‘bring hope not austerity’

The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2024

OPINION - The Standard View: A compromise is possible on the winter fuel payments row

The Prime Minister’s prediction yesterday that his Government “was going to have to be unpopular” on account of withdrawing winter fuel payments from all but the poorest pensioners is coming true sooner than he would have wished. The general secretary of Unite, Sharon Graham, and the head of the TUC,…

Evening Standard · Sep 9, 2024

Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs she is ‘not immune’ to concerns over winter fuel allowance plans – as it happened

Chancellor tells meeting of parliamentary Labour party there will be more difficult decisions to come

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

Ministers facing pressure from unions over winter fuel payment cut

TUC and Unite leaders express ‘real concerns’ over policy as many Labour MPs expected to abstain in Commons vote

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

UK workers cheated out of £2bn in holiday pay, says TUC report

More than a million workers missed out on the holiday pay they were due last year, according to the union

The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2024

More than a million British workers not having a single day of paid time off, says TUC

Employees have lost out on holiday pay worth £2bn, according to new trade union research

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2024

It’s zero hour: TUC to tell Labour it’s time to deliver workers’ new deal

There will be joy over Labour’s victory at the trades union congress this week – but also a determination to see that promises are kept

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2024