Trade unions

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a guide for trade union representatives, offering practical advice on long-term sickness absence and return to work issues.

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

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.

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

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

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

Members of the southern region of the firefighters union travelled to parliament yesterday to voice concern over plans for a combined control centre.

Pope Benedict XVI is expected to continue his predecessors' left-leaning stance on labour, while pursuing their ultra-conservative line on matters of personal morality

The GMB is calling on the EC to outlaw the use of RFID and GPS satellite linked tags to track workers in the workplace

The city's bus drivers stage their first strike in 20 years

Union leaders have threatened industrial action after it emerged that British Gas is planning to cut up to 2,000 jobs...