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Trades Unions against ID Cards
Blog The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has backed up airport workers protesting against ID cards, the Financial Times reports. In a letter to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, the TUC said it had "significant and substantive" concerns about ID cards, due to be...
[July 22, 2008, 17:08]
Web site offers pension contribution advice
News The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has added the calculator to its workSMART Web site, and hopes to highlight the inadequate provision many workers are making towards their retirement. Brendan Barber, TUC General Secretary Elect, said: "Most people at...
[January 20, 2003, 10:54]
Unpaid overtime still common for IT pros
News According to Trades Union Congress (TUC) research, ICT workers work an extra six hours and six minutes per week, while IT service delivery staff work an average of four hours and 36 minutes additionally per week.
[February 26, 2007, 8:35]
Unpaid overtime on the rise in Britain
News Across the country, the number of employees working extra hours for nothing is close to five million, says the Trades Union Congress (TUC). An extra 103,000 employees worked unpaid overtime in 2007 compared to 2006, bringing the total to almost one...
[January 7, 2008, 8:19]
Unions: Publish snooping code of practice
News The Trades Union Congress (TUC) believes that publishing the final document governing 'snooping' in the workplace should be a top priority. The TUC today said that the latest draft of the as-yet unimplemented code of practice gets it "about right...
[January 9, 2003, 10:05]
NSFW!
Blog As Get Safe Online Week draws to a close tomorrow, the TUC (Trades Union Congress) has launched a toolkit to help improve workers’ Internet security awareness and skills. Caring people at the TUC are concerned that while employers are improving...
[November 20, 2008, 16:00]
Government okays snooping on staff
News The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has condemned the government's decision to allow the routine screening of emails and phone calls without the caller's consent. We think it's almost certain that a union will challenge in court the government's...
[October 5, 2000, 10:55]
Software to snoop on office porn sneaks
News We wouldn't want to see people's rights to privacy invaded, but we are much opposed to people downloading porn at work," said Sarah Veale, senior employment rights officer at the Trades Union Congress (TUC).
[September 20, 2000, 16:17]
IT staff's overtime levels exposed
News Unpaid overtime is reaching such levels now that the TUC claims the average UK worker is doing almost two months of unpaid work each year, worth £4,650 on average - with IT workers among the worst hit.
[February 22, 2005, 8:10]
Union hits out over employee surveillance
News On Thursday the Trades Union Congress (TUC) attacked the use of 'Big Brother' tactics by UK firms, which it says are actually counterproductive because of the negative impact they have. In an article published in the TUC-backed Hazards magazine...
[March 11, 2004, 16:35]
What makes you stressed?
Leader According to the TUC, work-related stress costs the UK economy £7bn a year in lost productivity. Stress - the word alone is enough to get some people hot and bothered. And if figures from a recent survey are accurate, then melting techies are most...
[May 15, 2006, 15:45]
Repeat offender: How IT use can cause RSI
News One study by the TUC reckoned that one in 50 UK workers suffered some form of RSI. Repetitive strain injury, or RSI, is the name given to a range of musculoskeletal disorders, usually caused by work in some way.
[February 23, 2004, 12:10]
RIP: Government claims no mass surveillance
News It follows news that ISP Poptel intends to move abroad if the government's snooping bill becomes law, claiming that it would not be able to guarantee its clients -- which includes the TUC and trade unions -- email confidentiality.
[July 10, 2000, 16:04]
Safety experts meet in Cyberspace
News The broad spectrum of this topic is reflected by the line-up of cyber-speakers: MP Michael Meacher, general secretary of the TUC John Monks, Health and Safety Executive (HSE) chief Jenny Bacon and CBI head Adair Turner are some of the experts that...
[November 2, 1998, 11:35]
A sad truth.
Talkback One thing is for sure is that the Government and TUC winning about it isn't going to make a blind bit of difference. The whole workplace is getting very competitive and if uk workers get complacent the work just moves elsewhere in the world.
[January 7, 2008, 10:48]
Gordon Brown dubbed 'analogue Chancellor'
News Shadow paymaster general Mark Francois said in a statement: "This scheme was endorsed by the DTI, the CBI and the TUC and this represents a very bad decision by the analogue Chancellor. Gordon Brown has been dubbed the "analogue Chancellor" for...
[May 8, 2006, 9:55]
Treasury looks to replace HCI
News The general secretary of the TUC, Brendan Barber, has welcomed signals to replace the scheme. The Treasury could replace the Home Computing Initiative - a scheme to give employees access to cheap computers - after a number of business groups...
[April 3, 2006, 17:30]
Ford workers suspended over Net surfing
News The TUC spokeswoman also said that employers should develop codes of practice in cooperation with employees and even trade unions. Three workers have been suspended from Ford's biggest UK factory for "unauthorised use" of the Internet.
[January 17, 2001, 15:10]
What price jobs and livelyhoods?
Talkback RETHINK Mr Brown, you have caused untod pain to many famillies today, I have been a card carrying Labour member for many years and active in the TUC, today i am disgusted with New Labour, you are a poor shadow of the leaders we used to call great.
[March 23, 2006, 16:34]
Government launches flexible working drive
News The Trades Union Congress (TUC) welcomed the scheme, saying that the UK's long hours working culture ultimately damaged productivity, the health of employees, and the happiness of their families. With statistics showing that only one in seven UK...
[May 4, 2006, 14:35]
