The TUC is urging people to use International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia tomorrow (Thursday) to remember lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people who have been attacked or killed around the world.
Commenting on today's unemployment figures which show a 6,000 rise in unemployment in the North East between January and March, Kevin Rowan, Regional Secretary of the Northern TUC said:
“Today's figures once again throw into sharp contrast the claim that we are all in this together.
Responding to the latest unemployment figures published today (Wednesday) by the Office for National Statistics, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Responding to the announcement today (Tuesday) that the government is to cut the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) budget, outsource its helpline and scale back the public sector equalities duty, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
As the Joseph Rowntree Foundation today publishes a report on forced labour in the UK – some of it based on research in the South West.....
Commenting on the latest figures on sickness absence in the workplace, published today (Tuesday) by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Commenting on a Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) report on forced labour in the UK food industry published today (Tuesday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: “This report further exposes the rank exploitation in the food sector.
The number of men doing part-time jobs because they can't find full-time work has more than doubled over the last four years, according to a new TUC analysis of official figures published today (Tuesday).
Responding to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) assessment of the 2010 Spending Review published today (Monday), TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
Shareholders may have been giving the thumbs down to boardroom pay and bonuses in greater numbers recently, but the government needs to do more than simply make investors' voting decisions binding if directors' pay is to be set at more realistic levels in future, says the TUC today (Monday).