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ForeFront 12

Issue 12 of the Unions21 journal including articles from Rt...

Issue 12 of the Unions21 journal including articles from Rt Hon Ed Miliband, The Fawcett Society, Rachel Reeves MP, Equity, First Actuarial and ‘in conversation’ with Frances O’Grady and Lord Glasman.
Download Posted: 27/02/12
Delivering for Young Workers

How unions can organise the next generation

How unions can organise the next generation
Download Posted: 27/02/12
ForeFront 11

Issue 11 of the Unions21 journal including articles from Sir...

Issue 11 of the Unions21 journal including articles from Sir Michael Leahy, Carl Roper, Will Straw, an interview with Lord Maurice Glasman
Download Posted: 27/02/12

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What Workers Think

Tim Horton Research Director of the Fabians Society responds to our survey on work, unions and management.

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Shocking new study from @jrf_uk highlighting extent of forced labour in UK food industry. http://t.co/bGSkT65n 10:03 AM May 15th via Twitter for iPhone
Fantastic session on modernising trade unions and the labour/ union link. Thoughtful contributions and a packed room including @ChukaUmunna 4:23 PM May 12th via Twitter for iPhone

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AudioBoo

Ken Mulkearn on the background to the Hutton Review of Fair Pay, comparisons between public and private sector pay rises, Recorded at TUC Congress 2010, Manchester

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Next Gen Reps

Britain's young people are getting on at work by joining in with their unions. As union reps they're working hard to improve their workplace, gaining new skills and making new friends.

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About Us

We provide an ‘open space’ for discussion on the future of the trade union movement. Our work has helped shape unions since 1992 by providing evidence, advice, new thinking and networks. We are mainly resourced by contributions from unions and others who work with unions that recognise we need to keep the movement evolving in an ever changing world. We...

News

Frances O Grady addresses Unions21 Conference on Unions and The New Economy
2nd April 2012

The ink is barely dry on the Chancellor’s “audacious gamble” of a Budget and already the OECD is warning that Britain is re-entering recession. It is increasingly clear that, for all the weaknesses and complexities of coalition, the Government’s robustly right wing austerity programme adds up to a game changer that has profound implications for British politics, our economy and...