“NHS staff have had enough of broken promises on pay.”

Tanya Pretswell at #TUC2026 calling for urgent reform of NHS pay.

It’s time to ditch the discredited Pay Review Body, negotiate directly with unions and deliver fair pay for NHS workers. ✊

#UNISON #NHSPay

All women and girls deserve to live a life free from violence and abuse.

General Secretary Joanne Thomas speaks at #TUC2026

We will be covering the key debates on stronger rights at work over the next few days at Congress. Be sure to keep an eye on our social media for updates! #TUC2026

I was honoured to meet Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and leading human rights activist at #TUC2026.

The labour movement has played a key role in moving the UK's position but we have much more to do to end UK complicity in genocide and Apartheid.

“Education is a public good.”

Sandra Okwara at #TUC2026 highlighting the crisis in further and higher education.

Cuts, job losses and rising workloads are managed decline. We need proper funding, secure jobs, fair pay and strong national bargaining. ✊

#UNISON

“Pay justice for school support staff!”

Glen Williams at #TUC2026 calling for an end to low pay and exploitation.

School support staff keep our schools running and children safe. Action on jobs and pay cannot be kicked down the road. ✊

#UNISON

Day Two at #TUC2026 and ready for another full day of debates and discussions.

Public service workers keep our communities running every single day. They deserve more than warm words — they deserve action.

Time for the Government to step up. ✊

#UNISON

Day Two at TUC Congress 2026!
Your UNISON Scotland delegates are ready to go for another busy day in Brighton, speaking up for our members and public services.
✊ Public service workers show up every single day. Now it’s the Government’s turn to show up for them.
#TUC2026 #UNISONScotland #UNISON

"Every worker should be entitled to be covered by a collective agreement, and this is only achieved by reintroducing sector wide collective bargaining." #TUC2026

Lord John Hendy KC speaks next. “The single most important demand for the trade union movement is for sector-wide collective bargaining... Its absence has led to the fact that we now have a cost of living crisis with millions of workers left without enough to put food on the table.” #TUC2026

The @cwunews.bsky.social’s Dave Ward: Sectoral Collective Bargaining needs the trade union movement to agree standards in each sector of the economy. “We are not going to achieve that against the level of power employers have got, unless we roll our sleeves up together.” #TUC2026

There are over 19,000 employers in adult social care in England, she tells the room. "That just shows the level of outsourcing, fragmentation and greed. This is the level of our challenge" she tells us, "the insourcing revolution is needed now." #TUC2026

Even if the ERA is fully implemented with no dilutions, the UK will still have trade union law that falls short of our international standards. For example workers should ahve the right to take secondary action with workers in other sectors. #TUC2026

On access rights, she says that the watered down version of TU access rights simply isn't what it should have been. We need to review the provisions to give unions a proper right, robustly enforced. #TUC2026

Next up is Fran Heathcote of @pcsunion.bsky.social. She tells us- a single status of worker was promised but left undelivered. This will continue the abuse of bogus self-employment, excluding vulnerable workers from employment rights they should be enjoying. #TUC2026

Kicking off our fringe event with POA general secretary, Steve Gillan.
He says the reality is, the government need to chose the path of what was in the manifesto without watering it down, this is why he's supporting the call for a second Employment Rights Act. #TUC2026

Geoffrey Mbewe of the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions highlighted the impact of debt, extraction and unequal economic structures on workers and communities, & the need for global action on debt justice & corporate accountability. #TUC2026

Jyoti Macwan of SEWA India outlined the realities facing women workers in the informal economy, whose labour underpins global supply chains yet often remains invisible, underpaid & unprotected #TUC2026

The TUC's Mariela Kohon, formerly of both Justice for Colombia & of the Gustavo Petro peace process, spoke on the challenges facing Colombia's peace process & the importance of protecting human rights defenders, trade unionists & democratic space under the new far-right regime. #TUC2026

Our main speakers: We were honoured to hear from Aisha Hammouda of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, sharing the realities facing Palestinian workers & communities, & the importance of international solidarity in defence of human rights & labour rights. #TUC2026