STUC research showing that over the last two years the average employee in Scotland has lost more than £1,400 in real wages as a result of pay not keeping up with inflation.
August 2023
STUC briefing showing that Scotland's gender pay gap has increased from 6.4% in 2023 to 8.3% in 2024.
November 2024
Open letter from Scotland’s largest trade unions, academics, charities and campaign organisations calling on Scotland’s main political party leaders to ‘urgently’ revaluate property across the country as a critical step towards reforming Scotland’s broken system of local property taxation.
April 2024
A report by Howard Reed, Landman Economics, commissioned by the STUC exploring the options for increasing taxes in Scotland to fund investment in public services and public sector pay. The research finds that short-run and longer-run tax changes could raise an extra £3.7 billion per year.
April 2024
On the 24th of January 2024, the Scottish Government led debate on their motion about investing in the green economy, including the importance of public investment.
April 2024
STUC Parliamentary Briefing ahead of Scottish Green Party debate on Budget Priorities
October 2024
In January 2023, the Scottish Government published a consultation seeking views on what is required to accelerate and deepen Community Wealth Building in Scotland, including what should be in a potential Community Wealth Building Bill.
May 2023
The report contains new calculations showing that Scotland’s richest twenty families are wealthier than 30% of the population. It takes a critical view of the Scottish and UK Government’s economic recovery plans and calls for a fundamental rethink on the purpose of growth and the introduction of urgent measures such as a National Care Service, a green stimulus package, wealth taxes, sectoral collective bargaining and democratic public ownership.
May 2020
The STUC report is based on six focus groups which were held with union members in distribution, retail, hospitality and the creative industries as well as with activists from the Better than Zero campaign and members of the STUC’s black workers, youth, and women’s committees. The report provides an insight into the way these members see their work and the impacts on their lives. It confirms some of the views held within the movement and wider society about the nature and impact of insecure work, but it also challenges some pre-conceptions. The report offers recommendations for both trade unions and policy makers in meeting the challenge of organising and legislating to increase security and build workers’ power.
October 2019
The UK’s Minimum Wage laws allow workers to be paid less based on their age, even if their job, skills, and experience match those of colleagues. This study, based on a survey of 100 people working in care homes, bars and restaurants, retail, the postal service, local authorities, fast food outlets, call centres and cinemas, examines the reality of live for young workers paid the minimum wage.
April 2019
STUC report looking at what has happened to real wages in Scotland in the two years. The research, which includes analysis by sector, shows that the average worker is more than £1400 worse-off due to pay not keeping up with inflation.
September 2023
A report by Laurie Macfarlane and Christine Berry identifying the parts of Scotland’s economy that have prospered during the covid-19 pandemic; the structural changes that are underpinning this; the role that scottish government policy has played; and the potential long-term impact on the labour market in the years ahead.
April 2021
