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Apprentice star Baroness Brady calls for faster action to close gender pay gap

The difference between what men and women are paid last year stood at 6.9%.

Evening Standard

Lords committee calls on Labour to restore protections for modern slavery victims

Peers say protections have been undermined by three immigration acts passed by the previous government

The Guardian - UK

Gender pay gap for women in their 50s won’t close before 2050, claims Labour

‘Equal pay generation’ of female workers abandoned by Tories, says Anneliese Dodds, who commissioned research

The Guardian - UK

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Labour to launch review to go ‘further and faster’ in closing gender pay gap

Exclusive: Ex-TUC chief Frances O’Grady to lead review amid concerns it is taking too long to eliminate gap

The Guardian - UK

Former Trade Union Congress boss joins Labour benches in House of Lords

FORMER Trades Union Congress boss Frances O’Grady has taken her seat on the red benches in the House of Lords.

The National (Scotland)

End UK’s non-dom tax status, new TUC boss tells Rishi Sunak

Exclusive: Paul Nowak condemns tax rules and hails Labour’s ‘credible programme for government’

The Independent UK

Struggling workers suffer worst wage growth in 50 years as Tories refuse pay deals

And as industrial action grows across the country, No10 was accused of deliberately scuppering pay deals to pick a fight with those trying to improve poor wages

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Strike summit blasts government 'picking fight with unions' to hide economic failures

The Mirror this evening hosted a summit of Union bosses in our headquarters to answer questions from readers as thousands of workers prepare to walk out in the coming weeks

Daily Mirror

Wages suffer biggest hit in almost half a century as prices spiral

Figures from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) show that once the rising cost of living is taken into account, wages have fallen by 3% in 2022 - the biggest drop since 1977

Daily Mirror

TUC seeks changes to draft law to help seafarers after P&O Ferries scandal

Sacking of nearly 800 crew in favour of low-paid agency workers in March led to calls for loopholes to be closed in seafarers’ wages bill

The Guardian - UK

Minister backs curbing right to strike of more public sector workers in UK

Education secretary Gillian Keegan suggests NHS staff could be put on same footing as police officers and military

The Guardian - UK

Unions tell ministers to stop ‘hiding behind’ pay review bodies in strike talks

TUC and Unison say government is not negotiating in good faith, while PM accuses union leaders of being ‘unreasonable’

The Guardian - UK

Union leader urges troops not to ‘strike break’ ahead of airports walkout

Call comes as TUC boss demands ‘meaningful’ talks on pay with chancellor Jeremy Hunt

The Independent UK

UK staff to have right to ask for flexible working from day one in job

Legislation brought forward but unions say government could go further to make it ‘the norm’

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‘Enough is enough’: wave of strikes led by ‘fantastic’ women, says Frances O’Grady

As she steps down, outgoing TUC general secretary says female workers’ jobs are undervalued

Daily Mirror

Frances O’Grady's deep personal pain serves as a reminder of trade union movement roots

Family obligations continue to fuel Frances O’Grady, the passionate General Secretary of the TUC, who is coping with the loss of her beloved sister Kathleen

The Independent UK

UK Government must ‘pull its weight’ to protect Qatar workers – TUC

Qatari employers are ‘out of control’, the Trade Union Congress has warned on the eve of the World Cup.

Daily Mirror

Huge scale of workers' 'forced labour' abuse in Qatar uncovered on the eve of World Cup

The UK's Trade Union Congress (TUC) says it has found evidence of widespread wage theft and workers forced to pay extortionate recruitment fees in order to help the Gulf State prepare for the tournament

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The Independent UK

Pound falls as Jeremy Hunt announces tax rising Autumn Budget

The pound fell 0.9 per cent as the chancellor delivered the long-awaited Autumn Statement

The Independent UK

NHS workers facing real terms pay cut, TUC warns

Unions react to reports of a 2% limit on pay rises in the public sector next year.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak told public services need £43bn a year to ‘stand still’

Frontline services ‘short-staffed and overwhelmed’, say TUC

Daily Mirror

'Disabled workers earn £3,700 less each year - the government must close the wage gap'

Rachel Charlton-Dailey writes that the pay gap varies from industry to industry, but is worst in the finance sector where disabled people earn on average £5.90 an hour less than non-disabled employees

The Guardian - UK

Pay of FTSE 100 chief executives rose an average of 23% in 2022

Campaigners and TUC say rise to almost £4m is unjustifiable during cost of living crisis

The Independent UK

NHS staff, teachers and shop workers say public ‘need a voice’ with general election now

‘I believe we are the absolute laughing stock of the world at the moment,’ NHS caterer says

The Independent UK

Unions call for general election now as number of key workers’ children growing up in poverty revealed

TUC research reveals ‘rampant’ need among frontline staff as 28 per cent of children with care worker parents grow up in poverty

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