Trade unions

Morrisons representatives will sit down with the GMB and T&G unions today in talks to avert a national strike over the supermarket's plam to close distribution depots and cut up to 2,500 jobs

Unions are considering calling off plans for a three-day strike at Morrisons after the supermarket chain agreed to meet them for national bargaining talks

Derek Simpson, a leading figure in the proposed 'super-union', has shunned all official meetings of TUC executives in the past year.

Stephen Overell (Off message, Personnel Today, 23 August) asks why the ‘apolitical, unobtrusive, doing-OK bulk’ of workers should join a...

Chris Ball reports from the TUC Congress, where Alan Johnson replaced the anticipated drubbing with reassurances

The TUC leadership won the backing of its members to investigate the proposed 'super-union' and its potential impact.

Unison official Gloria Mills is to become the next TUC president – the first black woman ever to be elected to the position

The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has called today’s pensions speeches to the TUC conference a ‘disappointment’ after no pledge was made to raise the public sector pension age to 65.

Trade and industry secretary Alan Johnson has named the members of the board that will assess bids from unions for the Union Modernisation Fund

Pensions Commissioner Adair Turner spelled out the options for funding future pensions at the TUC Congress, and said companies and employees should not expect easy answers

Implementing more layers of employment legislation will damage the UK economy, says employers' body

Gordon Brown has told unionists that a highly-skilled Britain is key to ensuring its economic survival

Unions have called for secondary strikes to be made lawful again – a right that was removed by Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1990

With new equality regulations on the horizon, the TUC is calling on employers not to wait for the new law, but implement equal opportunity policies now

The TUC Congress, which started yesterday (Monday), is taking place against a backdrop of disquiet in the labour movement.There are...