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Then chairman of the John Lewis partnership Charlie Mayfield, October 6, 2015
Workers' Rights / 5 November 2025
5 November 2025

Ex-John Lewis boss calls for action against Britain’s ‘sick note culture’ as unions fear proposals target disabled

Commuters wait to board a tram in Manchester, May 2020
Workers' Rights / 5 November 2025
5 November 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a speech in the media briefing room of 9 Downing Street in central London, ahead of the Budget later this month, November 4, 2025
The Budget / 4 November 2025
4 November 2025
teachers at Flint High School staged their 10th day of strike action
Workers' Rights / 4 November 2025
4 November 2025
UVW members
Workers' Rights / 4 November 2025
4 November 2025
A forensic investigator on the platform by the train at Huntingdon train station in Cambridgeshire, after a number of people were stabbed on the train on Saturday. Two people have been arrested after British Transport Police were called to the incident. Picture date: Sunday November 2, 2025
Health and Safety / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025

Real action is needed to make sure tragedies like that at Huntingdon never happen again. TSSA leader MARYAM ESLAMDOUST suggests some practical, achievable steps to be taken

Police on the platform by the train at Huntingdon station in Cambridgeshire, after a number of people were stabbed, November 1, 2025
Crime / 2 November 2025
2 November 2025

Unions say government and train operators must act quickly to review security, support affected workers and ‘ensure nothing like this happens again’

Workers' Rights / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025
Workers' Rights / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025
Jeremy Corbyn joins striking British Library workers on the picket line
Workers' Rights / 29 October 2025
29 October 2025
27/04/20 of the sun rising behind a redundant oil platform moored in the Firth of Forth near Kirkcaldy, Fife
Workers' Rights / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025
Members of the House of Lords seated ahead of the State Open
Britain / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025
Ben Macpherson, arrives at Bute House in Edinburgh, ahead of the Scottish energy summit chaired by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, to discuss what can be done to mitigate the impact of soaring energy bills. Picture date: Tuesday August 23, 2022
Austerity / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025
Workers' Rights / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025
Lunar House in Croydon, south London which houses the headquarters of UK Visas and Immigration, a division of the Home Office
Voices of Scotland / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

The visa system traps workers with abusive employers, creating a vulnerable workforce scared to complain for fear of deportation — that is why we’re campaigning for a ‘common sponsorship’ model instead, writes FAVOUR DAVIDKING

Industrial / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025
Workers' Rights / 26 October 2025
26 October 2025
women workers 1910
Working Class History / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025

ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns

Megastrike new zealand
Working Class History / 25 October 2025
25 October 2025

HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaking at the Regional Investment Summit at Edgbaston Stadium, in Birmingham. Picture date: Tuesday October 21, 2025
Employment / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025

Labour could break pledge to equalise minium wage, warn campaigners 

UCU members at Edinburgh University gather for a rally in George Square, Edinburgh, at the start of a planned five-day walk-out in a dispute over plans to cut £140 million from the university budget, September 8, 2025
Workers' Rights / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025
A general view of the entrance to a Sainsbury's supermarket, April 30, 2018
Workers' Rights / 20 October 2025
20 October 2025
Protesters form a blockade outside weapons manufacturer BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, in protest over the Israel-Gaza conflict and calling for an immediate ceasefire to halt the killing of civilians in Palestine. Picture date: Wednesday May 1, 2024
Workers' Rights / 18 October 2025
18 October 2025

Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production

Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speaking at the TUC congress at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Monday September 11, 2023
Wealth Tax / 16 October 2025
16 October 2025
Sharon Graham the general secretary of Unite, delivers a speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Monday September 29, 2025
Workers' Rights / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025

Call comes as unemployment rate hits highest level since early 2021, the height of the pandemic

Workers' Rights / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025
Protesters take part in a nationwide 24-hour strike in Athens, Greece, October 14, 2025, as unions demand higher wages and the withdrawal of a bill changing work hours
Southern Europe / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025
Plastic models of a man and woman stand on a pile of coins
Workers' Rights / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025
battle of bexley square
Working Class History / 11 October 2025
11 October 2025

MAT COWARD looks back to a 1931 protest against mass unemployment featuring a young Ewan MacColl

Workers' Rights / 8 October 2025
8 October 2025
RMT members rally outside the headquarters of Carlisle Business Services, Manchester, October 8, 2025
Workers' Rights / 8 October 2025
8 October 2025
Junior doctors protesting outside Downing Street, London, June 27, 2024
Workers' Rights / 7 October 2025
7 October 2025
Union members on the picket line outside Scottish Water's scientific services department at Juniper House in Edinburgh, as Scottish Water workers go on strike in a dispute over pay and grading. Picture date: Tuesday April 22, 2025
Editorial: / 5 October 2025
5 October 2025
Hospitality workers on strike at Draughts Bar in London protest against zero-hour contracts, precarity and exploitation Pic: UVW
Workers' Rights / 5 October 2025
5 October 2025
Children at a primary school in Yorkshire, July 7, 2025
Education / 5 October 2025
5 October 2025
Junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association (BMA) outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, January 3, 2024
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025
Starbucks Workers United
Workers' Rights / 1 October 2025
1 October 2025

Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR

Lindsey oil refinery workers at a rally outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Picture date: Wednesday September 3, 2025
Workers' Rights / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025
PEOPLE POWER: Protesters demand a wealth tax, March 27 2025
Britain / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025