The motions put forward for debate at this autumn's TUC congress have revealed continuing strained relations between Labour and the union movement.

Preliminary motions for September's TUC congress contain a range of criticisms and calls for further action.

Among the motions on the provisional agenda is one from the TGWU saying that "Congress welcomes the advances made by this Labour government, but is extremely concerned at the failure to repeal Tory anti-union laws".

And Prospect "condemns the government's decision to cut 50,000 jobs throughout the UK civil service without proper consultation with civil service unions".

The Guardian reports that a pre-election truce between Labour and the unions will be severely strained when the congress takes place next month.