Trade unions

Retail union Usdaw is calling for tighter security to protect shopworkers from drunks who might target supermarkets as 24-hour licencing comes into effect

Cleaners fighting for better pay and conditions at the Houses of Parliament have won the backing of an international network of unions.

Members of Britain's largest civil service union have voted to create a political fund which will allow the union to campaign on political issues

Trade secretary Alan Johnson has floated plans to slash the influence of trade unions at the party's annual conference.

The TUC's Union Academy moved a step closer to becoming a reality with the appointment of a chief executive.

The government is set for a row with retail unions over allowing supermarkets and other large shops to open for extra hours on Sundays, according to weekend reports

Colombia has continued to live up to its reputation as being the world's most dangerous place for unionists

Reports that the proposed 'super union' is under threat are unfounded as unionists are "desperate" for it, according to a senior Amicus source.

The T&G union will call for London bus drivers to be designated ‘key workers’ in the same way that other public sector workers are

Literacy, numeracy and level 1 and 2 NVQs have been boosted by a £3m contract awarded by the Learning and Skills Council using money from the Union Learning Fund

The T&G union has defended the behaviour of London bus drivers after a report by the London Assembly committee showed complaints against drivers have trebled in the past four years

St Michael, the ‘patron saint of grocers’ (pictured), was sent to the NEC in Birmingham last week to talk to...

HR managers at food service company 3663 have been left embarrassed after some of its lorry drivers were mistakenly overpaid for several months

Union leaders have demanded double-crewing of all Northern Line trains and daily safety checks after the emergency braking system failed for the fourth time

The internet is helping the trade union movement transform the way it recruits and deals with its members, according to a new research paper