It also led the campaigns to secure rights for Agency Workers (2007), increase statutory redundancy pay (2009), and to win compensation for sufferers of pleural plaques, a form of asbestosis (2010).
It has placed a particular emphasis on exposing UKIP policies to cut workers rights such as maternity, paternity, and sick pay.
Upon the rebranding Mick Whelan, chair of Labour Unions and ASLEF general secretary stated that through trade unions working together with the Labour Party they would meet the challenges of "a hugely unequal society, poverty pay, insecure work, struggling public services, unaffordable housing, the climate crisis and a radically and rapidly changing world of work".
The Committee is jointly chaired by a member from the union side, currently Mick Whelan, and the Labour Party Leader, Keir Starmer.
The National Trade Union Labour Party Liaison Organisation Committee comprises: