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Tony Blair's uphill struggle to win a Yes vote for the European Union constitution suffered a further blow yesterday, after two more top union leaders said they could not support [...]

Transport workers have called joint strike action across the country next week in a dispute that would affect millions of passengers on the rail network and London Underground. The 24-hour [...]

The jury is still out on whether personal e-mails are the modern tea break or the spectre that haunts Gordon Brown's dream of a more productive Britain. But employers have [...]

Higher earners have escaped relatively unscathed from the slide in company pension coverage, figures published today suggest. Occupational pensions have become more common among higher-earning women in recent years, analysis [...]

Tony Blair sufferedanother blow from the unions when the Fire Brigades Union voted for the first voluntary disaffiliation from Labour since the party was founded more than a century ago. [...]

Union delegates representing firefighters have agreed on a national strike ballot unless the final two stages of their pay deal are paid out soon. At its annual conference in Southport, [...]

Labour's link with the unions is looking more frayed than before, after two conference motions threatened to cut funding to the party. The Communication Workers Union passed an emergency motion [...]

One in five people would not receive a pension if the retirement age rose to 70, according to the Trades Union Congress. The TUC research is designed to counter increasing [...]

Prospects for City workers have taken a clear turn for the better, according to the latest survey of employers by Manpower, the recruitment business. Employers in financial and business services [...]

Staff at Wm Morrison, the supermarket chain, are to vote on whether to hold a strike ballot over trade union rights. The vote will involve 1,600 members of the Transport [...]

The government's expanding skills empire has set up a new think-tank to advise it on how to boost productivity and 'make sure the workforce is up to scratch'. Skills for [...]

LONDON -- Tokyo has kept its dubious honour as the most expensive city in the world for expatriates, but London leapt five places to clinch the number two spot. Multinationals [...]

Activists at the Public and Commercial Services Union annual conference have voted for a motion asking the leadership to look at the legal feasibility of concerted industrial action over pay [...]

Plans to cut tens of thousands of public sector jobs could mean a 'mass casualisation' of the civil service, the head of Britain's biggest civil service union said yesterday. Mark [...]

Ministers have been 'overly ambitious' in their timetable for job cuts in the fire service, Alan Doig, president of the Chief and Assistant Chief Fire Officers Association, has suggested. The [...]

The leadership of the Fire Brigades Union is to recommend a ballot for industrial action to its conference on Tuesday. The union said it was responding to the refusal of [...]

Company directors have it all, according to a new study by business psychologists. Not only do they enjoy the highest job satisfaction but they are least likely to put their [...]

Forensic scientists in England and Wales are today set to strike over pay. The action will be taken by scientists working for the Forensic Science Service, a Home Office agency, [...]

The head of thebiggest civil service trade union has offered the country's two most powerful men a tantalising choice: ease up on your plans to cut a swathe through the [...]

Tens of thousands of civil servants at the Department for Work and Pensions are expected to mount further strikes after union delegates endorsed additional stoppages. The dispute within Whitehall's biggest [...]

The burgeoning public sector is 'the main provider of high-quality jobs' in many parts of Britain, according to a consultancy that advises the government. Without its contribution, 'productivity gaps' between [...]

The head of Lincolnshire's chamber of commerce is refreshingly honest about the county's place in the world. David Wilson is not surprised about its high dependency on the public sector [...]

Firefighters across London are expected to receive ballot papers for industrial action today over plans by London Fire Brigade to extend their duties to certain calls outside their traditional role. [...]

Starting salaries are rising at their fastest pace in more than three years, according to the latest monthly survey of recruiters. Pay rates rose last month as the supply of [...]

Strikes over working time and pensions are on the rise despite an overall fall in stoppages, official figures confirm today. The numbers suggest that unions are beginning to enter a [...]

STAFF INVOLVEMENT SCHEME TAKES OFF FOR AIRLINE GROUNDED BY WILDCAT DISPUTE Last year's wildcat strike at British Airways over working time has acquired iconic status within the trade union movement [...]

Firefighters' union leaders have agreed a peace deal that is aimed at ending the recent spate of unofficial industrial action. The wildcat action - which stopped short of an all-out [...]

Leading union figures have put their weight behind proposals for a strong enforcement agency to protect workers' existing rights to time off, sick pay and a limit to their working [...]

Firefighters and their employers were close to agreeing a peace deal yesterday as national leaders of the Fire Brigades Union endorsed a formula after detailed negotiations. The wording agreed by [...]

The tally of UK public sector jobs has jumped by 162,000 in a year - the fastest increase in more than a decade - according to figures released yesterday by [...]

Gordon Brown may have spent years trying to cultivate a reputation for prudence but the happy timing of the public sector jobs boom owes more to luck than to foresight. [...]

Childcare assistance by employers has shot up over the past year to the point where it is no longer a rarity but common practice, new research on employee benefits suggests. [...]

The bitter fire service dispute threatened to deepen yesterday after it emerged that a boycott of anti-terror training among firefighters was spreading to other parts of the country. It is [...]

Senior civil servants have dug their heels in against ministers' plans to cut civil service jobs, by passing a series of sharply critical motions at yesterday's annual conference of their [...]

Len Murray, the former Trades Union Congress leader, died last night, aged 82. He served as TUC general secretary from 1973 to 1984. Brendan Barber, the current TUC general-secretary paid [...]

The pay of non-executive directors at top companies has risen by more than a third in one year as the tightening-up of corporate governance increases workloads. The average annual pay [...]

The moderate head of one of Britain's biggest unions has written an angry farewell letter attacking 'ego-driven' union leaders for ingratitude towards the government. Sir Bill Connor, who retires as [...]

LONDON and BRUSSELS -- The CBI employers' organisation pledged yesterday to 'fight tooth and nail' against a radical union-backed solution to working time abuses. But Brendan Barber, head of the [...]

The firefighters' dispute escalated yesterday after the official head of the employers' side accused staff taking wildcat industrial action of putting lives at risk. The Fire Brigades Union responded by [...]

Ministers have suffered a serious setback in their battle to preserve a business-friendly version of European rules on working time. Socialist politicians and union leaders have managed to reinsert in [...]

The heads of Britain's biggest unions implicitly accused ministers of being out of touch yesterday, as they called for a radical third-term manifesto. But they reaffirmed their support for a [...]

Britain's biggest private-sector employer has launched an experiment to reduce sick days with a mixture of sticks and carrots (or at least vouchers to buy them). One pilot scheme launched [...]

Two unions with a base in Britain's sunset industries are set to join together after members voted overwhelm-ingly for merger. ISTC, formerly the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, is to [...]

High earners will be excluded from new tax breaks for nannies that were announced yesterday. Households with an income above Pounds 43,500 a year will not gain from the new [...]

Network Rail has been threatened with 'indefinite' industrial action in the latest setback for the embattled company. TSSA, Britain's second largest rail union, has announced a ballot of its 2,000 [...]

Ministers are expected to continue talks with union leaders today after failing to reach an agreement yesterday that could provide compensation to 60,000 workers who lost all or part of [...]

Staff at Barnardo's, the children's charity, are to be unionised. Its 6,000 workers will be represented by Unison after a recognition deal was signed with the governing council. David [...]

The Fire Brigades Union has raised the stakes in its war with employers by securing a recommendation for an industrial action ballot. The union's national conference voted overwhelmingly to recommend [...]

Redundancy rates for British workers have fallen to their lowest since records began nine years ago, official figures show. The news echoes the labour market's sponge-like ability to absorb more [...]