Trade unions

The head of the TUC's new workplace learning initiative has called on employers to put aside their reluctance about working with trade unions and get involved with the project

Last month's outline agreement between GMB representatives for Asda workers and the company has collapsed and the union is balloting members in a call for industrial action

Around 20,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) began voting today in an indicative ballot for industrial action over job cuts and privatisation

The union wants to set up a national committee to liaise with Tesco centrally about jobs, pay and conditions

Wal-Mart has bowed to mounting criticism over the way it treats its staff by changing healthcare programmes for its part-time workers

Strong doubts have been raised about the formation of a new 'super union', with less than eight months to go until its planned launch

Union wins improved pay, sickness, pensions and training deal for cleaners

NHS union Unison has warned the government that strikes are possible and that it will support striking members if they feel they have not alternative to industrial action

Retail union Usdaw is seeking an urgent meeting with Moto managers after the motorway services chain was sold to an investment bank

Cutting training budgets will have an obvious impact on skills ('US delight as EU firms slash training budgets', Personnel Today, 21 March)

The Metropolitan Police force is investigating allegations of the improper use of taxpayer’s money

Asda risks further inflaming relations with the GMB union after it emerged that the supermarket chain plans to recruit managers and other store staff from Poland.

The government has handed various trade unions a total of 3m in the first payout from the controversial union modernisation...

The TUC is revealing pay differences via an online database that allows workers to compare their salaries with those of their chief executives.

The government has given trade unions £3m in the first pay-out from the controversial union modernisation fund.