Eurostar staff rosters have been branded "unfair" by union bosses sparking warnings that staff may strike in the run-up to Christmas. Members of both the RMT and TSSA trade unions have voted in favour of industrial action, which they hope will force   More...
01 December 2008 10:23

Turkey might well be off the Christmas list for many people across the UK as a meat inspector strike threatens the supply of the festive bird. Inspectors voted two to one in favour of strike action in a row over cuts to overtime payments and the int  More...
24 November 2008 11:19

Unite has vowed that its NHS members will hold a day of action in December over the government's NHS pay offer. The largest union in the country, Unite said it would hold a 'work to rule' day on Wednesday, 3 December over what it described as the "  More...
18 November 2008 11:54

The number of people taking part in strikes has almost doubled in the past year, according to official figures. A report from the Office for National Statistics found that the number of workers involved in labour disputes increased from 429,000 in t  More...
14 November 2008 07:23

A one-day strike by civil servants set to take place on 10 November has been called off. The national executive committee of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) met this morning (Friday) and decided to suspend the walk-out and the overtim  More...
07 November 2008 16:10

French IT services firm Steria faces industrial action over its plans to transfer jobs working on a contract with the Co-operative banking group to India. Trade union Unite is to ballot its members at Steria following the company's announcement of p  More...
30 October 2008 10:17

Should employers be on red alert to face strike action from discontented staff, or is it all just hot air? Ross Bentley finds out.  More...
24 October 2008 17:16

Will there be a union-led winter of discontent? Mike Berry outlines the main findings of our exclusive survey on the threat of industrial unrest. Exclusive research by Personnel Today and law firm Eversheds reveals that the threat of industrial act  More...
24 October 2008 15:00

Tens of thousands of civil service workers are to hold a one-day strike on 10 November. The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) announced the first stages of a programme of national industrial action across public services in protest at the go  More...
24 October 2008 09:55

More than two-thirds of employers back the ban on trade unions taking secondary action, exclusive research has revealed. A survey of 783 HR professionals by Personnel Today and law firm Eversheds found strong support for legislation preventing uni  More...
23 October 2008 15:08

Union members are protesting at Ascot race course this morning against Hewlett-Packard's (HP) decision to axe 3,400 UK jobs. Members of the Unite union were planning to drive a van on the roads outside the racecourse, where Mark Hurd, chief executiv  More...
22 October 2008 11:33

Public and civil services look set to be hit by further strike action as civil servants continue to fight against below-inflation pay offers. Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union are up in arms over the government's 2% public sector   More...
17 October 2008 17:52

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has warned ITV that it risks industrial action after the broadcaster announced plans to cut more than 400 news jobs. The NUJ said any attempt to make the job cuts without meaningful negotiations with unions wou  More...
30 September 2008 14:40

Hundreds of employees at the conciliation service Acas have staged a one-hour strike over their pay row. More than 600 members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union working in offices across the UK and the Acas helpline stopped work bet  More...
29 September 2008 09:17

The council pay dispute that has seen hundreds of thousands of local authority workers strike this summer will go to conciliation service Acas, it has emerged. Up to 600,000 council workers staged a 48-hour walkout in July as part of the long-runn  More...
22 September 2008 10:12

EXCLUSIVE Unite general secretary Derek Simpson has told HR professionals across the UK to prepare for war with trade unions. Simpson – who jointly fronts the UK's biggest trade union, Unite – said the government's handling of the  More...
15 September 2008 00:58

It seems everyone in the public sector, from the police to coastguards, is unhappy about pay offers. Phil Boucher looks at the lessons HR managers can learn from these disputes and how they should help deal with them. There have been rumblings of di  More...
15 September 2008 00:00

Our weekly HR news and analysis audio programme includes: union boss Derek Simpson warns HR should "prepare for war" as strike action continues because of pay cuts prison staff details go missing in the latest data loss saga and we deba  More...
12 September 2008 18:22

Civil servants are to vote on a nationwide strike as anger grows over the government's public sector pay policy. Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will be balloted from 24 September to 17 October on a programme of targeted in  More...
08 September 2008 10:45

Royal Mail has been forced to pay dozens of postal workers who had their pay stopped "without good reason" last August. The Communications Workers Union (CWU) secured pay-outs for 27 postal workers who had their wages frozen for two days following a   More...
05 September 2008 11:00