The Unions Are Not Working For Women
My Emergency Motion for the TUC annual congress is just about ready to share - the aim is to highlight what the trade unions ought to be discussing, in terms of women's rights, when they gather in Brighton from 7 to 10 September 2025.
In the meantime I've found a photo of my TUC Youth Award 1983 which was presented in a age when no one had heard of queer theory, trans ideology, self-ID, children being born in the wrong body and men declaring they have magically 'become women'.
What has become of the trade unions?
Because they are no longer defending women's rights or representing the views of their grassroots members.
Trade Unions - In The Dock Over Women's Rights!
Trade unions across the UK have been strangely silent during the fight to defend the rights of women to single sex spaces - both at work and in the wider aspects of public life, eg women's sport.
But the unions are in the spotlight with the 157th Annual Congress of the TUC which is being held in Brighton from 7 to 10 September 2025.
So I think I'll draft an Emergency Motion highlighting just how badly women workers have let down by the trade unions - women like the Darlington Nurses and Sandie Peggie left to fight bullying managers and rogue employers on their own without support from Unison and the RCN, for example.
What is the point of a trade union that doesn't provide members with advice and assistance when they are most in need?
No point, I say.
Interesting fact - I won the TUC Award for Youth in 1983 which was presented to me in Blackpool that year by the then TUC General Secretary, Len Murray - I must see if there's a photo of my award I can share on the blog.
