TUC's A Future That Works campaign, aims to work with and champion public and private sector employers who reach living wage agreements.
Over the next two years the TUC has said it will continue work to create a stronger voice for workers in the management of companies, while fighting to retain rights to paid holidays and reasonable working hours.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "Margaret Thatcher's legacy of deregulated capitalism and the cult of finance crashed dramatically in 2008. But the government is still peddling the same old busted model.
"The Government's failed austerity drive means it could take another ten painful years just to get back to where we were before the recessio," said O'Grady.
She said: "Not only will the TUC and unions continue to be the backbone of Britain's anti-austerity movement but we will also lead the call for new economic ideas.
"We will champion and work with those who are helping to create a fairer economy - from paying a living wage to giving staff a bigger say in how their company is run."
O'Grady added: "As well as a decent wage, people deserve decent public services. Having overseen the fragmentation of the NHS, ministers now want to introduce the profit motive into Britain's schools. The TUC will fight this privatisation drive, which we know the public doesn't support."
