Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 30/09/2026It would take 6 million years for an Amazon worker to earn Jeff Bezos' wealth. 02811
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 24/09/2026Workers at the prestigious medical journal The Lancet are striking for the first time in its 200 year history over inadequate pay. The work they do is essential for advancing medical research and for public health and wellbeing. @nujofficial.bsky.social 24426
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 16/09/2026Young people want a job and a place of their own. But without guaranteed hours, what previous generations took for granted is out of reach. 13210
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 15/09/2026There is a direct political thread, a nasty politics, that links Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe, and Tommy Robinson, with Donald Trump, MAGA and the US white supremacist movement. We are better than that. Britain is better than that. 26123
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 14/09/2026Why have two crypto billionaires donated £72 million to Reform in just 2 days? 39047
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 09/09/2026UNION WIN! London bus drivers to get air conditioning! Following negotiations between Unite, Mayor Sadiq Khan and TFL, air con will be installed in all bus driver cabs by the end of May 2027. During the heatwave cab temperatures could get as high as 40 degrees. 316738
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 09/09/2026A mob of masked vigilantes led by a criminal doesn't make women feel safe. 48038
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 07/09/2026Reform party members respond to the Nigel Farage allegations. 0155
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 07/09/2026Just like the £5 million donation, Nigel Farage's excuses change every day. 12410
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 03/09/2026Reform politician Zia Yusuf has made a racist attack on Labour's candidate for Holborn, Sagal Abdi-Wali, implying they shouldn't be allowed to stand as they weren't born in the UK. As many pointed out, this would disqualify Reform politicians from standing themselves. 49548
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 02/09/2026It’s time for a trade ban on goods and services with the illegal settlements. 27530
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 27/08/2026Meanwhile said child is befriending far-right politician and enemy of working people everywhere, Donald Trump. 29511
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 27/08/2026Tim Curry's Home Alone 2 is about a concierge who's assaulted by two ever-neglectful parents for trying to stop their child's credit card fraud. 3569126
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 26/08/2026Reminder that Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 is a film about three women taking over an office and introducing free childcare, paid vacation, and flexible hours, resulting in a 20% increase in productivity. 9839270
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 26/08/2026This was the inspiration for the Dolly Parton movie and song, “9 to 5”. The 9 to 5 movement continues to campaign for women’s rights. Dolly Parton R.I.P. 0315
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 26/08/2026This is the story behind Dolly Parton's hit song "9 to 5". In the 1970s women in office jobs faced discrimination. They were paid less, passed over for promotions and experienced sexual harassment. The 9 to 5 movement was established to fight for better treatment of working women. 37523
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 18/08/2026Reform councillor John Bell has resigned from the party, citing their new plans for cutting support for disabled people. 107036
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 17/08/2026Disabled workers have a message for Nigel Farage and Reform. 12717
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 13/08/2026Record number of workers are on zero hour contracts, unsure how much they'll earn from week to week. Sign our petition and fight back against bad employers. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...megaphone.org.ukStamp out zero-hours contracts: protect all workers from exploitationThe government has launched a consultation on guaranteed hours. Sign this petition asking them to stand firm on their pledge to tackle insecure work and ban exploitative zero-hours contracts. 01411
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 12/08/2026It’s time Amazon spent more on helping their workers instead of fighting them. 1203
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 12/08/2026Mamdani is backing a new law that would force Amazon to directly employ their drivers. Amazon are fighting the law, spending over $5 million setting up a political campaigning group. In 2025 alone Amazon spent over $26 million to prevent their workers from unionising. 2168
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 12/08/2026Who will win, Mayor Mamdani or billionaire Jeff Bezos? Despite Amazon controlling drivers’ uniforms, hours vehicles and routes, Amazon delivery drivers are classed as subcontractors, not employees. This allows Amazon to avoid liability for traffic accidents or worker injuries. 22310
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 06/08/2026A tax on banks' record profits could cut energy bills by up to £559 a year. 12410
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 30/07/2026AI company Anthropic secretly bought millions of rare and out-of-print books to train its Claude AI model. They used a hydraulic-powered cutting machine to remove the pages for scanning before destruction. 711840708
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 29/07/2026Banking CEOs oppose the plan, despite banks making record profits. This quarter Barclays’ pre-tax profits alone were £3.3 billion, up 31%. It’s time to tax banks and bring down energy bills. 0136
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 29/07/2026A 35% surcharge – the level the Tories taxed profiteering energy companies when oil prices jumped – would raise £60 billion. This money could be used to cut household energy bills by up to £559 a year. 1115
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 29/07/2026A tax on banks would bring down energy bills - and bank CEOs aren’t happy. Banks had an 8% surcharge tax on their profits, but the Conservatives cut it to 3% in 2023. Even just restoring the surcharge to 8% would raise £9 billion over 4 years. 23016
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 29/07/2026Why is Tommy Robinson still friends with Andrew Tate? 0179
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 27/07/2026A far-right mob marched through Glasgow, attacking a delivery driver and waving Nazi salutes. Since 2020 there has been been a large increase in attacks on ethnic and minority workers. 115138
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 21/07/2026Australia is planning some of the world’s toughest AI regulations. There will be restrictions on water and energy use. And AI companies won't be able to train on Australian creators' work without their permission. 33869218
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 24/06/2026Why would an offshore crypto CEO give Nigel Farage's Reform £25 million? 12716
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 03/06/2026When this bus driver was feeling ill because of the heat, this passenger stepped in to help. We need a maximum working temperature to protect workers. 58421
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 22/05/2026Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt faced booing from students after he tried to give a speech praising AI. 02310
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 19/05/2026Since 2010 the number of UK billionaires has doubled. If wealth trickles down, then why aren't we all richer? 18441
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 14/05/2026We can achieve more working together than we can apart. Join our campaign: www.tuc.org.uk/unityworkstuc.org.ukUnity WorksWe achieve more when we work together. Working people can change things - and we already have. We won these rights because we stood together and changed the rules. We organised. We fought. And we won.... 0204
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 13/05/2026"I would never, ever, want to use my flag to bully or intimidate anyone" - Big John. Bosh. 25213
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 11/05/2026Billionaires, and the politicians they fund, will do everything they can to strip workers of their rights. 18141
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 08/05/2026AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars" 05011
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 28/04/2026Every year more people are killed at work than in wars. Most don't die of mystery ailments, or in tragic "accidents". They die because an employer decided their safety just wasn't that important a priority. On International Workers Memorial Day, we commemorate those workers 05826
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 28/04/2026Amazon staff were told to keep working for an hour around their dead coworker. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue picking items and loading trucks as the man lay dead. 22832
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 27/04/2026The number of UK billionaires increased from 15 in 1990 to 156 in 2025. Does anyone still think that wealth will trickle down? 39144
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 23/04/2026Journalist Christopher Snowdon, who works for the right-wing think-tank The Institute for Economic Affairs, was ridiculed for attacking the NHS. 1249
