to union arguments that workers were risking their health.
* In October 2011 agency workers gained the right to receive the same treatment as permanent staff carrying out the same work.

History

19th century

The TUC was founded in the 1860s. The United Kingdom Alliance of Organised Trades, founded in Sheffield, Yorkshire, in 1866, was the immediate forerunner of the TUC, although efforts to expand local unions

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