This report sets out the employment and corporate practice of companies in Scotland's offshore wind sector, including ScotWind project developers. The analysis is built upon interviews with trade union officers and a survey of ScotWind developers and reveals poor employment practice including pay less than the minimum wage, exploitation of migrants workers, and resistance to trade union recognition.
January 2025
In early 2025 we surveyed Trade Union members who work within the creative industries with a view of ensuring that workers voices are front and centre of any discussion around Fair Work. This report gives voice to their experience – and highlights some shocking working practices.
June 2025
Despite extensive international and Scottish literature linking financialised and privatised care with poor outcomes and excess profit extraction, the Scottish Government’s recently withdrawn National Care Service Bill did not propose any change to who provides care. Neither has the Scottish Government brought forward reforms to address these issues since it withdrew the NCS Bill. Using data from the Care Inspectorate, this report analyses complaints into older people’s care homes in the private, voluntary and public sector over the last three years.
March 2025
This report uses Care Inspectorate data to examine differences in staffing resources across private, voluntary and public sector care homes for older people. It finds that staffing resources in older people’s care homes are 20% lower in the private sector compared to the not-for-profit (public and voluntary) sector.
March 2025
On 29th January 2024, the UK government published a consultation proposing the introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
April 2024
The STUC runs an open survey for workers to share their concerns and experience during severe weather events. This form was first used during Storm Isha and Jocelyn in January 2024 and remains open to workers throughout the year. On the day of Storm Éowyn, the form was circulated through social media channels. Over the course of the day, 48 workers responded. This paper summaries their responses and the protections which must be in place going forward.
January 2025
