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Workers' Rights / 17 June 2026
17 June 2026

Cabinet Office sets out plan for bringing services like cleaning and security back in-house

Firefighters from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) take part in the Cuts Leave Scars rally outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, October 26, 2023
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service / 17 June 2026
17 June 2026
Jubilee line trains parked at the London Underground Stratford Market Depot in London, June 21, 2022
Workers' Rights / 16 June 2026
16 June 2026
Employment / 17 June 2026
17 June 2026
Workers' Rights / 16 June 2026
16 June 2026
Punch [Pic: Dan Burton]
Workers' Rights / 15 June 2026
15 June 2026
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Welfare / 7 June 2026
7 June 2026

The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime

FBU general secretary Steve Wright
Politics / 16 May 2026
16 May 2026

The FBU leader speaks to Ben Chacko about cuts, collapsing Starmerism and confronting the far right

Two Freightliner Freight trains pass on the tracks as they make their way through Worting Junction near to Basingstoke, Hampshire
Workers' Rights / 15 May 2026
15 May 2026
UCU members at Edinburgh University take part in industrial action at the start of a planned five-day walk-out in a dispute over plans to cut £140m from the university budget, September 8, 2025
Workers' Rights / 14 May 2026
14 May 2026
A man showing signs of depression (picture posed by a model)
Mental Health / 13 May 2026
13 May 2026
CWU members, May 13, 2026
Workers' Rights / 13 May 2026
13 May 2026
Birtek-sen members and supporters gather outside the trial in solidarity and to demand Mehmet Turkmen’s release, May 12, 2026 [Pic: Arif Bektas]
Turkey / 13 May 2026
13 May 2026

Mehmet Turkmen, president of Birtek-Sen, has been cleared of criminal charges after speaking out against the high rate of workplace injuries and deaths in Gaziantep’s textile and carpet industry. OZLEM TEMENA reports

Angela Rayner at the CWU Conference
Politics / 11 May 2026
11 May 2026
Workers in the rail and sections hot end rolling mill at the British Steel site in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, April 17, 2025
Industry / 11 May 2026
11 May 2026
First Minister John Swinney addresses delegates during the STUC conference in the Caird Hall, Dundee, April 21, 2026
STUC / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement

Chacko and Peter Mertens
Pensions / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback

Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) on the picket line outside John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, as resident doctors in England begin six-days of industrial action in their ongoing row over pay and jobs, April 7, 2026
Workers' Rights / 11 May 2026
11 May 2026