Help to find the right union for you and your job. You can browse a list of the TUC's unions, use the union finder to see if your employer or similar employers recognise a union, or ask the TUC for advice.

Includes links to pages explaining your right to join, or not to join a union, how the law can protect you if your rights are flouted, time off for trade union activities, industrial action, and trade union subscriptions.

If you have recently started work, you may want to join a trade union. Explains what they do and that it is illegal for an employer to discriminate against you in any way for joining a union or taking part in union activities. It also highlights the benefits and the downsides of joining a union.

A trade union representative (‘rep’) is a union member who represents and gives advice to colleagues when they have problems at work. Information about what they do and how to become one.

When an employer and a union agree to negotiate on pay, terms and conditions, this agreement is called ‘recognition’ of the union. The negotiations are called ‘collective bargaining’.

Information about joining a trade union, your employment rights in relation to trade union membership and how trade unions can help you.

Explains about trade unions. Includes information on recognition, time off rights, and trade union or other employee representatives.

The Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations (the ICE Regs) apply to businesses with 50 or more employees. The regulations give employees the right subject to certain conditions, to request that their employer sets up or changes arrangements to inform and consult them about issues in the organisation. Includes general information about getting information from your employer about workplace matters such as redundancies and TUPE transfers. 

There are two main forms of industrial action - strikes and action short of a strike. Information on ballots, picketing and your rights when taking part in industrial action.