Employee relations

Travel agency Thomson is facing a staff mutiny at its Glasgow call centre after management scrapped workers' afternoon tea break.

Unions representing O2 workers will attack "fat cat" salary packages at the mobile communications company's AGM today.

Hundreds of Asda supermarket staff on Wearside are beginning a three-day strike in a dispute over pay.

Union leaders are holding meetings today with London Underground management and police to press for "urgent" security measures in the wake of the recent bombings.

Union Amicus has won a test case ruling that the Working Time Directive should be applied to UK oil employees working offshore.

A former employee at Herbert Smith has been awarded nearly £40,000, following a tribunal hearing.

Two US trade unions representing more than three million workers have left the US labour federation, the AFL-CIO.

A row is brewing at the Co-operative Insurance Society after union leaders accused the company of effectively dismissing more than 2,100 financial advisers

I have just read - with a mixture of annoyance and amusement - your article on the government's 2005 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS), entitled 'Trade unions drinking in last chance saloon' (Personnel Today, 12 July)

The CBI has given its tentative support to the new 10m union modernisation fund - having previously declared that it was "fundamentally opposed" to the scheme

Right to be paid on time

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has rejected British Airways' appeal in the case of Jessica Starmer, the mother whose request to work part-time was refused by the airline

Union members and disability activists are holding a protest outside the head office of the AA in Basingstoke, Hampshire

Management and unions at Rolls-Royce are to hold talks after an unofficial walkout by staff at the company’s Bristol factory

RMT leaders promise to back workers' who refuse to work on safety grounds