Berny Torre

× THE TUC published its five-point plan to give employment rights a “significant upgrade” today — and accused bosses of a widespread failure to honour even basic rights at work.

× UNIONS will hold Labour to account if it waters down its New Deal for Working People, TUC Congress resolved unanimously.

Union figures weigh in on Starmer's government at Morning Star's TUC fringe event ×

× LABOUR must be “for the many and not the few,” TUC Congress declared, as it called on the government to ditch “phoney” fiscal rules and impose wealth taxes instead.

× UNIONS urged Sir Keir Starmer not to deliver more austerity after he told TUC Congress to expect pay and public investment restraint.

× UNIONS must recognise the “failure of environmental policy” that led to the 2,500 job losses confirmed at the Port Talbot steelworks, GMB general secretary Andy Smith told TUC Congress today.

× TUC Womens Committee chairwoman and British Dietetic Association (BDA) delegate Annette Mansell-Green moved an emergency motion today at the TUC Congress on the issue.

North Sea oil and gas licenses may be ruled unlaw after High Court bans new coalmine

× PLANS for the scrapped section of HS2 received a mixed reception from unions and campaigners as they were unveiled today.

THE Foreign Office responded to Russia's spying accusations against six British diplomats in Moscow today as “completely baseless.”