workers rights

July 7, 2017

TUC calls on G20 leaders to create quality jobs and increase wages

The TUC is joining with trade unions from across the G20 to call for leaders at the G20 summit in Hamburg to agree action to create good quality jobs and increase wages.
June 14, 2017

Some employers misleading workers over rights, says Citizens Advice
- Citizens Advice has compiled a list of ten things employers say to workers to mislead them about their rights.
May 9, 2017

Report warns low income workers’ rights at risk after Brexit

A new study from the TUC warns that working people in both the UK and the EU are at risk from the erosion of workplace rights after Brexit – especially those in low-skilled jobs.
October 18, 2014

Hundreds sign worker justice petition to Episcopal Presiding Bishop

Within hours over 550 people have signed a petition to the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, calling for reinstatement of eight sacked seminary professors.
October 18, 2014

General Theological Seminary board refuses to rescind faculty sackings

The future of a flagship Episcopal seminary in the US is in doubt after its board ignored pleas from across the world to reinstate sacked faculty members.
October 15, 2014

General Theological Seminary: build reconciliation through justice

The crisis at General Theological Seminary in New York has not only produced important acts of solidarity towards eight fine professors unjustly sacked for their protests about what they have experienced as bullying within the GTS administrative system, it has also begun to spark some wider questions about the future of seminary-style education and mainstream US Protestantism.
October 15, 2014

Thousands back call for reinstatement of 'GTS Eight'

A petition calling for the reinstatement of eight sacked faculty members at General Theological Seminary in New York is receiving huge support.
October 11, 2014

Reinstate the faculty unjustly dismissed from General Theological Seminary

The tragic and deplorable situation at General Theological Seminary in New York, USA, where eight loyal faculty members at present stand dismissed for their action in seeking to address "a workplace with a retaliatory and hostile environment", is one which has regrettably sad echoes in other situations in religious bodies I have known over the years.
October 11, 2014

Academics back dismissed faculty at troubled Episcopal seminary

Over 900 academics say they will not teach or lecture at General Theological Seminary in New York after most of its faculty were summarily dismissed.
July 30, 2014

Tribunal fees a 'huge victory for Britain's worst bosses', says TUC

Employment tribunal fees have been a huge victory for Britain’s worst bosses, according to a new TUC report marking the first anniversary of the new charges.