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Give staff more say over AI to ensure they share benefits, UK thinktank urges [The Guardian] 29-05-2026


Trade union membership rises to 6.6 million [IER] 29-05-2026


UNI stands in solidarity with Amcor workers on strike in the UK [UNI Global Union] 28-05-2026


TUC: Workers know it “pays to be in a union” as new figures show union membership soars [TUC] 28-05-2026


Ministers urged to press ahead with UK ban on zero-hours contracts [The Guardian] 27-05-2026



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Trade union membership rises to 6.6 million 2026-05-29 [IER]

6 months before the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6, Rockstar employees in the UK have formed a union 2026-05-29 [PC Gamer]

NEU comment on Alan Milburn's NEETs report 2026-05-29 [NEU]

Give staff more say over AI to ensure they share benefits, UK thinktank urges 2026-05-29 [The Guardian]

Unions and tenants groups call on ministers to introduce rent controls in open letter 2026-05-28 [Morning Star]

First South Yorkshire Doncaster bus strikes over as drivers win pay parity with Sheffield 2026-05-28 [Unite]

TUC: Workers know it “pays to be in a union” as new figures show union membership soars 2026-05-28 [TUC]

Hundreds of Thales defence workers in strike action ballot 2026-05-28 [Unite the Union]

England Further strikes to take place at Kingsbury special school over ‘fire and rehire’ plan 2026-05-28 [Harrow Online]

England Fresh disruption to London buses as Bow drivers continue strikes 2026-05-28 [Unite the Union]

UNI stands in solidarity with Amcor workers on strike in the UK 2026-05-28 [UNI Global Union]

Unite seals recognition agreement with St John Ambulance & Rescue Service in Guernsey 2026-05-27 [Unite the Union: News & Events]

Households must not bear the brunt of Trump’s illegal war - TUC 2026-05-27 [TUC]

Northern Ireland Unite secures further recognition agreement at Seagate Technologies in Northern Ireland 2026-05-27 [Unite]

Fresh disruption to London buses as Bow drivers continue strikes 2026-05-27 [Unite]

Know your rights in soaring temperatures 2026-05-27 [TUC]

PCS delegation makes impact at TUC Cymru 2026-05-27 [PCS]

Scotland Green jobs contributing £10.2bn to Scotland's economy, says CBI 2026-05-27 [BBC]

Ministers urged to press ahead with UK ban on zero-hours contracts 2026-05-27 [The Guardian]

Union boss furiously condemns Grangemouth closure as 'industrial vandalism' amid jet fuel crisis 2026-05-24 [Dailyrecord]

TUC slams Reform’s “cynical” overtime “tax gimmick” 2026-05-24 [TUC]

TUC brands Reform’s overtime tax proposal a ‘cynical gimmick’ 2026-05-24 [Morning Star]

TUC brands Reform’s overtime tax proposal a ‘cynical gimmick’ 2026-05-24 [Morning Star]

Gender Pension Gap at lowest level ever, Reform policies would put progress at risk 2026-05-23 [Prospect]

Good jobs or bad law?: The row over workers' rights 2026-05-23 [BBC]

Organise now to fight oncoming climate catastrophe 2026-05-23 [Socialist Worker]

Organise now to fight oncoming climate catastrophe 2026-05-23 [Socialist Worker]

Employers must keep workers safe in heatwave, TUC warns 2026-05-23 [Morning Star]

Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital' 2026-05-23 [BBC]

Threshold for triggering collective redundancy obligations - TUC response 2026-05-23 [TUC]

Police Federation condemns ‘overnight’ cut to police pension lump sums 2026-05-23 [Police Federation]

TUC welcomes ICJ ruling safeguarding right to strike 2026-05-23 [TUC]

BBC and NUJ end dispute on rota changes at Newshour and The World Tonight 2026-05-23 [NUJ]

RMT sends condolences to family of murdered London bus driver Sergei Krajev 2026-05-22 [RMT]

Unions should discuss new ‘political vehicle’ for workers should Labour continue austerity, PCS says 2026-05-22 [Morning Star]

Wales Give workers in carbon-intensive industries paid release to retrain, Welsh unions say 2026-05-22 [Morning Star]

Backing pledged for members suffering impact of gynaecological conditions 2026-05-21 [PCS]

PCS calls for menstrual leave and free period products 2026-05-21 [PCS]

Trade union values against racism and division 2026-05-21 [PCS]

New guidance on single sex spaces 2026-05-21 [Unison]

Trepidation, uncertainty, and rage: Dispatches from the picket line at Henry Maynard Primary School 2026-05-21 [Waltham Forest Echo]

Wales Invest in maritime jobs and tackle poverty pay at sea, TUC Cymru demands 2026-05-21 [Morning Star]

Making work pay must mean making it fair, now 2026-05-21 [Unison]

Striking Cambridge Uni workers joined on picket line by Unite leader 2026-05-21 [Unite]

Sergei Krajev: Unite expresses condolences after London bus driver dies following attack and calls for urgent action to tackle violence 2026-05-21 [unite]

Sergei Krajev: Unite expresses condolences after London bus driver dies following attack and calls for urgent action to tackle violence 2026-05-21 [unite]

Sexual harassment remains a ‘scourge’ on our workplaces 2026-05-21 [PCS]

Scotland Schools across West Dunbartonshire close as staff take to picket line 2026-05-21 [The Clydebank Post]

Google agrees to talks with UK DeepMind staff over calls to unionise 2026-05-21 [The Argus]

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This month in labour history

4-05-1926 For the first and so far only time in British history, the TUC calls millions of workers out in a general strike, in support of coal miners. [more]

5-05-1882 Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette and revolutionary socialist, is born. [more]

10-05-1920 Dockers refused to load arms shipments to be used by White armies in Russia. [more]

14-05-1771 Socialist philanthropist Robert Owen is born [more]

30-05-1984 Miners leader Arthur Scargill, along with 81 other pickets, is arrested at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire. [more]