General Federation of Trade Unions

10/10/2026

Today, GFTU is highlighting the important role trade unions play in supporting mental health and wellbeing at work 💚

🧠 Our Mental Health: A Trade Union Response course, delivered by GFTU Educational Trust, is fully booked, showing the strong demand for union reps to build confidence and skills in supporting members.

✊ We look forward to continuing this important work with union reps and activists.

10/10/2026

Napo rejects HMPPS’s 5% probation pay offer over inadequate pay and threats to CBF. Get ready to fight back in the upcoming industrial action ballot.

08/10/2026

📣 From our archive: GFTU in action: rebuilding working class communities.

🔙 Revisit Gawain Little - General Federation of Trade Unions's look at building stronger unions, developing working-class culture and rebuilding the communities at the heart of collective action.

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07/10/2026

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02/10/2026

🔙 Back to May 2025 and the GFTU’s Federation News, where we took a critical look at the Employment Rights Bill.

💬 The message was clear: recognising problems at work isn’t enough. Workers need meaningful rights, security and collective power.

📖 Revisit the archive article: The Employment Rights Bill and the Emperor’s New Clothes! Link below 👇

01/10/2026

✊ This Black History Month, the and GFTU Educational Trust celebrates the generations of Black workers and trade unionists who have fought for equality, justice and dignity at work.

From challenging racism in the workplace to building stronger, more inclusive trade unions, their struggles and achievements continue to shape our movement.

🚩 We remember. We celebrate. We organise.

30/09/2026

30/09/2026

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29/09/2026

Ending the scandal of hunger should be one of Andy Burnham’s central missions.

Ahead of tonight's 🍽️ launch, read Ian Byrne MP in the The Morning Star:

MOST of us have never truly been hungry. I don’t mean having been out all day playing with your mates when you were 10 and not coming back for your dinner or working hard all day and not having time for a meal break. I mean genuine, longing, painful hunger which affects your physical health and me...

29/09/2026

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Andy Burnham must Introduce Immediate relief and end Food Insecurity, say campaigners.  The Right to Food Commission is, this week, at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, publishing its …