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FEMALE workers are being trapped by in-work poverty, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said yesterday.
She was delivering the inaugural Mary Macarthur lecture in Rowley Regis in the West Midlands.
Ms Macarthur was a trade union activist and Suffragette who lived from 1880 to 1921.
As Unison launches its Year of Women Workers, ANNIE COGAN-THOMAS argues that stronger organisation and collective bargaining are essential to winning equality
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
TUC Midlands marks 20 years of celebrating the 1910 chainmakers’ victory with a festival that connects historical lessons to modern struggles — because working-class history should inspire action, not just nostalgia, writes STUART RICHARDS