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Do You Want to Become a Workplace Liaison Officer for the Workers of England Union? The Workers of England Union believes strongly in independent Trade Union representation. Unlike the traditional workplace representative mod...

New figures released today show that drug-related deaths in Scotland have risen sharply again, raising the question of whether this is predominantly a Scottish crisis or part of a wider problem across the United Kingdom. Natio...

England’s railways are undergoing one of their biggest structural changes in decades as passenger train operators progressively return to public ownership. The British Government is transferring services as contracts expire or...

When things go wrong at work, that is when you discover the real value of your Trade Union. If you are facing a disciplinary hearing, grievance, redundancy, workplace dispute or simply feel that you are being treated unfairly,...

Workers of England Union Calls for Taxpayer-Funded Trade Union Facility Time to Stop. [Part 2]  In Part One, we exposed how workers can be left relying on workplace Trade Union reps who may lack the experience, training or ind...

For millions of women, menstruation is an ordinary biological function. Yet in the workplace, period pain and menstrual health are still too often treated as embarrassing subjects that should be hidden. The evidence suggests ...

For eight years, taxpayers have been able to see how much public-sector Trade Union facility time is costing. Now that national reporting requirement has gone. Section 66 of the Employment Rights Act 2025 repealed the statuto...

Public-sector Trade Union facility time has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds since national reporting began in 2017/18. The Workers of England Union’s current analysis of Cabinet Office data indicates approximatel...

The Workers of England Union's investigation into taxpayer-funded Trade Union facility time has led to another question: how much money are Trade Unions themselves putting into politics? An earlier published estimate in the fi...

The Government is preparing to give Regional Mayors and other strategic authorities across England the power to impose a new tax on overnight accommodation. It is officially called an Overnight Visitor Levy. Ministers may pref...