Trade Unions - In The Dock Over Women's Rights!

Women's trade union periodicals at the ...

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.

Len Murray at a 1970s TUC Conference ...





 

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