THE Canadian government led by Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to introduce legislation that changes how labour disputes are resolved in federally regulated sectors, including rapid government inter...

Sarah Woolley, General Secretary of BFAWU, spoke at an event hosted by the Institute for Employment Rights on what the change in Labour leadership means for employment rights.

ON MAY 21 this year, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its authoritative advisory opinion on whether the right to strike is protected by International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conv...

WHEN Labour won the general election with a landslide majority, millions of working people hoped the Tory attacks on trade union and workers’ rights was finally over.

THE Starmer government has left a legacy of unfinished business. This is particularly true in relation to worker and trade union rights — the Employment Rights Act 2025 has not gone the full distance ...

THE Employment Rights Act doesn’t go far enough and a mass campaign to abolish all anti-union laws should be a labour movement priority, Miners’ Gala marras heard on Friday night.General Federation of...

THE Employment Rights Act, which received Royal Assent in 2025, was one of the headline policies of the incoming Labour government.Years in the making, the genesis of the Act came from work done by fo...

"Trade unions around the world have been forthright in their support for Cuba and against Trump gangsterism."

OUR union has been successfully recruiting new members at Mowi in Rosyth over the course of the past three years. This has not been an easy task due to the transient nature of the workforce, the many ...

By Carolyn Jones and Adrian Weir A recent rally organised by the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom, in partnership with Strike Map, heard from union leaders, labour law experts and politicians argui…

UNIONS must ensure Labour doesn’t backtrack on its delayed promises to remove the 50 per cent ballot turnout threshold, the National Education Union (NEU) conference moved today.The government is expe...

GERMANY’S giant IG Metall union’s setback at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin last week, in failing to secure a majority on Tesla’s statutory works council is a major challenge to the German trade moveme...

A NEW urgency gripped debate at the workers’ rights rally called by the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom (CTUF) and Strike Map at the weekend.The campaign for a second Employment Rights Bill cannot be...

THE Employment Rights Act which received royal assent in 2025 was one of the headline policies of the incoming Labour government.Years in the making, the genesis of the act came from work done by form...

THE first tranche of new employment rights became operative on February 18. Variously billed as the “biggest upgrade in workers’ rights in a generation” (Keir Starmer) and echoed by the TUC in Decembe...

Workers’ groups say new labour reforms leave major gaps, as campaigners plan a rally in London calling for stronger legal protections

"We need and demand a labour rights framework that’s worth defending and that workers will value as having something in it for them."

ARGENTINA’S Senate has passed legislation attacking workers’ rights and collective bargaining.Far-right President Javier Milei hailed the “historic” win, which follows huge protests by trade unions an...

BREAKING - The city council has been granted a High Court injunction baning anyone from protesting outside its depots and then obstructing its bin lorries from going on their daily rounds

A STRIKE protesting against Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei’s attack on the country’s labour laws disrupted public transport, hospitals, ports and schools across the country on Thursday.&...

FORTY years ago on a cold January night in 1986 as many as 6,000 print workers stood outside Rupert Murdoch’s new printing plant in Wapping in east London.They were met not with negotiators from News ...

Trump's attack on Venezuela is a threat to the sovereignty of all countries in the region. Adrian Weir, CTUF, calls for solidarity with the workers, unions and movements fighting back.

Labor federations around the world are condemning the Trump administration’s acts of war in Venezuela. In a raw display of imperialist aggression, the United States bombed the country, kidnapped its p...

THE Employment Rights Act 2025 has now passed into law, marking the most significant advance in workers’ rights in a generation. For decades, trade unions and campaigners have argued for reforms that ...

The TUC joins the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and ITUC-Americas in expressing our ‘absolute and unequivocal rejection’ of the US military attack in Venezuela, and the abduction of P...

**UPDATE: Donald Trump has launched a war on Venezuela, with the US military bombing the capital Caracas and kidnapping President Maduro. Please sign and share this statement to show the level of oppo...

The US is intensifying its aggression against the sovereign people of Venezuela. Following the deployment of U.S. forces in the Caribbean with the pretex of fight against drug trafficking and after th...

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) express their absolute and unequivocal rejection of the military operation carried out in to...

General secretary Eddie Dempsey said: “We condemn the illegal military attack carried out by the United States of America on Venezuela which resulted in President Maduro being kidnapped by US special ...

A CGTP-IN condena os ataques perpetrados pelos EUA contra a Venezuela, o seu território, o seu povo e a sua soberania.A administração Trump, numa grave violação do direito internacional, bombardeou o ...

La Cgil, con il segretario generale Maurizio Landini, condanna l’aggressione degli Stati Uniti al Venezuela e chiede al Governo italiano, all’UE e all’ONU un immediato cessate il fuoco e il ripristino...