Earlier this year, the TUC Young Members' Conference celebrated its 30th anniversary. In three decades, the industrial landscape has changed a great deal, and with it the fortunes of the trade union movement. After a long period of declining membership, union density is now broadly stable. Yet despite hundreds of new recognition agreements signed by unions over the past five years, only one in ten 16- to 24-year-olds is a [...]

More than a quarter of children in work are too tired to do their schoolwork because of their jobs, according to Class Struggles, a report published by the TUC earlier this year. Based on a MORI survey, the report showed that as many as one in ten children with a job admitted to missing school in order to do paid work. It also revealed terrible instances of low pay, with [...]