Young Workers

As TUC Young Workers Month gets underway, I want more young people to get involved in their union and get active. We all have a part to play in making sure we are a movement that is vibrant, growing and winning. We have seen a shift in the trade union movement in the last couple

I was born just after the last major strike with BT and most of the country it seems. Alongside, many other people my age, we have never experienced industrial action to fight for our rights. It’s all been pretty cushty up until now. Times have been mellow over the last 3 decades for BT working

Hi my name is Quincy, I am a Union Rep for Communication Workers Union {CWU}. I have been rep with my union for 6 years. It has been an amazing experience and truly rewarding to make a positive change to people lives. In my six years journey with the union, I have worked my way

It is important that working class people understand the history of the trade union movement and the politics that underpin their industrial experience on the shopfloor. Tory governments, big bosses and managers rely on workers not knowing their working rights and their strength in numbers. Unfortunately, due to the class-based education system in the United

This summer the CWU National Young Workers Committee sent two delegates to the UNI Europa Youth Conference in Gdansk Poland. 64 participants attended, representing 33 trade unions, from 17 countries, with a 43% quota of women. The conference was the first since the pandemic, with many issues to discuss that disproportionately affect young workers that