TUC Cymru Congress 1974

50 years of TUC Cymru

In 2024 we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of TUC Cymru. We look back at the achievements of the trade union movement in Wales over the last 50 years. And we look to the future with optimism because we’ll never stop fighting for what’s right, what’s fair, what working people deserve.

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50 years of TUC Cymru: A guiding light for Welsh devolution

50 years ago, the union movement in Wales gathered in Aberystwyth to enact a plan that had been years in the making. The outcome of this meeting would reshape the trade union movement in the UK, and be a guiding light for the path of Wales as a nation.

Dai Donovan at TUC Cymru Organise Now Conference 2024

TUC Cymru 50: Pride and the miners’ strike

In the 2014 award-winning film Pride, Dai Donovan is the warm, good-humoured Welsh miner who meets Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) in London and then, back home in Wales, hosts members of the group on his living-room floor. He’s undoubtedly one of the heroes of the film.

Mark Church - WULF learner

50 years of TUC Cymru: Wales Union Learning Fund

For 25 years workers in Wales have been able to access training and learning in their workplace thanks to a Welsh Government funded programme called WULF. Find out how his union and Wales Union Learning Fund helped Mark keep his job, and change his life.

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50 years of TUC Cymru: Campaigning for equality puts the menopause on the map

How the menopause became one of TUC Cymru's biggest ever workplace equality campaigns.

Shavanah Taj addressing TUC Cymru Congress 2024

50 years of TUC Cymru: 50 years of changes from devolution to diversity

As trade unionists gather in Llandudno for TUC Cymru Congress 2024 Shavanah Taj reflects on the last two, and 50, years of our movement.