UK workers to suffer 20 years of lost wage growth, says TUC chief

British workers are on course to suffer two decades of lost wage growth, the head of the UK’s trade union movement will say on Tuesday, while warning the government not to attack the right to strike. Frances O’Grady, speaking in Brighton at the annual gathering of the Trades Union Congress, will accuse the Conservatives of … Read more

Cost of Truss’s plans to ease energy bills must be shared, warns TUC chief

Prime minister Liz Truss must ensure the huge long-term costs of measures to address Britain’s energy crisis do not fall on the shoulders of low-paid workers, trade unions have warned. Frances O’Grady, head of the Trades Union Congress, the UK’s main movement for organised labour, told the Financial Times that Truss’s plans to cap domestic … Read more