Brendan Barber, the head of the Trades Union Congress, takes a rather different view.
But the Trades Union Congress denied that Monday's survey heralded a new period of industrial discontent.
The Scottish Trades Union Congress said the figures brought "yet more miserable news for Scotland".
Mae'r bil arfaethedig wedi ei gefnogi gan Trades Union Congress Cymru, ac undebau llafur Unite a'r GMB.
Scottish Trades Union Congress general secretary Grahame Smith said the statistics represented "better news than recent months".
John Monks, general secretary of the European Trades Union Congress, complains that Britain has defanged the charter.
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Visits to the Trades Union Congress and Confederation of British Industry conferences are also now in his diary.
Amicus is due to raise its concerns at the Scottish Trades Union Congress's annual gathering in Dundee on Tuesday.
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The launch was led by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the advisory group the Centre for Corporate Accountability.
In a document submitted to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the union, which has 1.4 million members, says "such action is desirable".
Britain's workforce has taken the biggest pay cuts in the developed world according to a study published by the Trades Union Congress.
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CBI's former director-general, likened it to Tony Blair's snub to the Trades Union Congress when he was elected leader of the Labour Party.
Up to 40 people are chasing every job vacancy in some parts of the country, the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) has claimed.
The most surprising swipe at the government during the fire strike has come from John Monks, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress.
"We're opposed to a deregulated Europe where workers' rights are pushed to one side", said Tony Young, the President of the British Trades Union Congress.
"The labor movement recognizes the need to restore our cost competitiveness, " explains legislator Lim Swee Say, deputy secretary general of the National Trades Union Congress.
The court heard he was involved in attacks on police vehicles, banks and a car showroom following the Trades Union Congress protest in London in March.
The Trades Union Congress argues that treating temps as if they were permanent staff will make them less resentful of their better-treated colleagues and keener to work hard.
It shows the UK needs to move in the opposite direction to what Buchholz is calling for, says Paul Sellers, working time expert at the Trades Union Congress.
Ms Cheong, formerly an assistant director in the membership department of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) - the trade union centre in Singapore, was sacked on Monday morning.
But General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress Brendan Barber accused Mr Cameron of pursuing a "naked right-wing agenda" that would take the country back to the most divisive years of the 1980s.
Alongside Sir Ian, former chairman of the Wood Group oil services firm, the commission includes Sir Willie Haughey, boss of City Refrigeration and Grahame Smith of the Scottish Trades Union Congress.
At the same time, the Scottish Trades Union Congress warned against the two sides of the independence debate "spinning" the figures to suit their own case, when tackling inequality was the most pressing issue.
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It was made up of 58 of Scotland's 72 MPs, seven of its eight MEPs, 59 of its 65 councils and representatives of various groups such as the Scottish Trades Union Congress and various churches.
She moved from the TGWU to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1994 and two years later she founded a TUC academy to train the union organisers of the future - many of whom she expected to be women.
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The Trades Union Congress says Britain's policy of allowing companies to opt-out of the European Union Working Time Directive, meaning people to work over the 48-hour a week limit on a "voluntary" basis, meant the protection it offered could be circumvented.
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