Impact of TUC and other Trade Union Initiatives on Staff

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IMPACT OF TUC AND OTHER TRADE UNION INITIATIVES ON STAFF DIVERSITY
AND EQUALITY
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Impact of TUC and other Trade Union Initiatives on Staff Diversity and Equality
Question 2: Evaluate the impact of TUC and other trade union initiatives to support
equality and diversity in creating successful working environments for all staff.
Introduction
The trade unions and employers in the United Kingdom (UK) are handling an
increasingly diverse labour force that requires extensive and effective policies to promote
diversity and equality of all employees. There are greater percentage of women and persons from
the black plus minority ethnic communities in the labour force than any other than in the history
of the UK. Trade unions have long advocated for equality and diversity and their memberships
more diverse as the populace and society has greatly changed. The goal of the initiatives
developed by the trade unions are geared towards promoting fairness, equality in addition to
diversity in the place of work to promote the welfare of all the employees in diverse workplaces
in the UK. Tesco has been a company in the United Kingdom that promotes the works of TUC
since its supports the activities on the union. Trade Union Congress (TUC) has been
instrumental in promoting equality and diversity in the workplace for many years through its
initiatives and legal frameworks and it has achieved tremendous results in the last few years. The
paper will assess the impact of Trade Union Congress (TUC) and other trade union initiatives on
equality and diversity of all staff (Bacon & Hoque, 2011, pp. 388).
Company Evaluation
Ryanair is an Irish-owned airline that was established in 1985 by Ryan family to compete
with Aer Lingus and British Airways on Ireland routes. Trade unions have been in confrontation

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with the company. Ryanair is currently Europe’s biggest low-cost airline and it has been one
been controversial because of its outspoken boss and constant hostile relationships with
organized labour. In addition to utilizing industrial relations law plus the civil courts, the pilots
union has been entailed in a more pioneering way of challenging Ryanair, via the establishment
of the Ryanair European Pilots Association (REPA). In the recent years, TUC despite the hostile
environment looked increasingly to the European Union (EU) for legislative levers to utilize in
maintaining plus retaining the influence in the workplaces as in the case of Ryanair. TUC has
been successful in addressing equality issues in the many workplaces in the UK and has
continued to champion to the rights of workers. One notable example is Ryanair, where TUC
resolved workplace poor practices that had continued to affect the employees. The union
campaign against poor employment practices brought poor and abusive employment practices to
public attention. Ryanair’s chief executive officer, Michael O’Leary was named as the 2018
Worst Boss in the world because of promoting unfair employment practice where their has been
9 strikes in Europe a workers who work for the airline believe that the company was unfair in its
practices. One year ago the company through the efforts of TUC recognized pilot unions-British
Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) and increased the pay of employees by 20 per cent
(Padraic, 2017, pp. 1).
This forced the company to develop employees that promoted equality and diversity.
TUC has considerably expanded individual employment rights, especially in the vital anti-
discrimination and diversity jurisdictions. TUC has continued to acknowledge the need to
promote equality in the workplace for all the employees by influence equality positively that
entail promoting effectual implementation along with the delivery of the current annexe of