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Watch: Starmer addresses unions after threatening to cut pensioners’ winter fuel payments

Watch as Sir Keir Starmer addressed the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton on Tuesday, 10 September, after its president warned that a second wave of austerity will boost the rise of the far right in Britain’s left-behind communities.

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer faces rebellion as 53 Labour MPs abstain over winter fuel and one votes with Tories – as it happened

Conservative motion to block winter fuel payment cut defeated but 53 Labour MPs abstain and one, Jon Trickett, votes with the Tories

The Guardian - UK

Future pay deals will be shaped by tough decisions, Starmer to tell TUC

PM expected to make clear in key Brighton speech that he will not risk economic stability ‘under any circumstances’

The Guardian - UK

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Chancellor faces down would-be rebels ahead of winter fuel payment vote

Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs that axing allowance for all but poorest pensioners will help plug £22bn hole in finances

The Guardian - UK

Labour refuses to publish impact assessment of winter fuel payment cuts until after MPs have voted

Exclusive: Energy minister Miatta Fahnbulleh confirmed her department has assessed the impact the policy change will have on pensioners living in fuel poverty, but said only that it will be published ‘in due course’

The Independent UK

Winter fuel payment cuts will aid rise of far right and Farage, TUC president warns Starmer

Exclusive: TUC president Matt Wrack tells The Independent the rise of Nigel Farage and summer riots should be ‘a wake up call’ for Keir Starmer to ‘bring hope not austerity’

The Independent UK

OPINION - The Standard View: A compromise is possible on the winter fuel payments row

The Prime Minister’s prediction yesterday that his Government “was going to have to be unpopular” on account of withdrawing winter fuel payments from all but the poorest pensioners is coming true sooner than he would have wished. The general secretary of Unite, Sharon Graham, and the head of the TUC,…

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Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs she is ‘not immune’ to concerns over winter fuel allowance plans – as it happened

Chancellor tells meeting of parliamentary Labour party there will be more difficult decisions to come

The Guardian - UK

Ministers facing pressure from unions over winter fuel payment cut

TUC and Unite leaders express ‘real concerns’ over policy as many Labour MPs expected to abstain in Commons vote

The Guardian - UK

UK workers cheated out of £2bn in holiday pay, says TUC report

More than a million workers missed out on the holiday pay they were due last year, according to the union

The Independent UK

More than a million British workers not having a single day of paid time off, says TUC

Employees have lost out on holiday pay worth £2bn, according to new trade union research

The Guardian - UK

It’s zero hour: TUC to tell Labour it’s time to deliver workers’ new deal

There will be joy over Labour’s victory at the trades union congress this week – but also a determination to see that promises are kept

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s plans to boost workers’ rights widely supported by managers, poll says

Survey of business decision-makers comes as TUC hits back at corporate lobbying against the proposals

The Guardian - UK

Union leader gets behind Starmer’s Brexit deal in bid save the UK’s car industry

Exclusive: TUC boss Paul Nowak urged new Labour government to deliver the ‘change’ the public voted for and to ‘start making a difference in their pockets and in their communities’

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The Guardian - UK

Public sector workers need above-inflation pay rises, says TUC chief

Paul Nowak welcomes government’s ‘crucial first step’ on pay, but says more needs to be done after 14 years of wage decline

The Guardian - UK

Reading the news, you’d think unions are about to ruin Britain. It’s because we’re finally making progress under Labour

Angry rightwing commentators can rant and rave all they like – we won’t stop striving for a more equal society, says RMT leader Mick Lynch

The Guardian - UK

TUC warns Keir Starmer: do not water down ban on zero-hours contracts

PM urged to stay the course after chancellor promises employers government will ‘co-design’ reforms with business

The Independent UK

Half of LGBT+ people say they are bullied or harassed at work, survey shows

Nearly three in 10 LGBT+ people keep their sexual orientation a secret at work

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The Guardian - UK

Unite calls for 1% wealth tax on super-rich to fund UK public sector pay rises

The demand from Britain’s second biggest union will test truce with Labour at next month’s TUC conference

The Guardian - UK

Are Starmer and Labour really in hock to ‘union paymasters’?

PM faces pitfalls navigating what are crucial relationships but claims by jilted Tories don’t ring true, say experts

The Independent UK

Unions to vote for public sector ‘pay restoration’ as new wave of strikes looms

Unions told The Independent further industrial action could be on the horizon if the government does not meet their pay demands

The Guardian - UK

Unions to press Labour for ‘pay restoration’ deals for public sector

TUC to vote next month on motion to call such deals ‘a key feature of our campaigning’ with the government

The Guardian - UK

How did CEO pay get so high in UK and can we do anything about it?

Median pay for a FTSE 100 boss rose to £4.19m in 2023, 120 times that of the average full-time worker

The Guardian - UK

Tories left ‘legacy of structural racism’ in UK jobs market, says TUC

Body says black and minority ethnic people bear brunt of insecure work, which has risen faster than secure employment

The Guardian - UK

Unions welcome scrapping of Tories’ ‘spiteful’ minimum service law

Senior figures praise repeal of law but privately some want full workers’ rights overhaul implemented without delay

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