Tories, including Boris Johnson, have demanded a clampdown on trade unions in a show of "Thatcherite zeal" aimed at stopping a wave of industrial unre...
The new leader of the TUC has launched a strong attack on the Government for its "vicious spiral" of spending cuts which are hitting low-paid workers ...
Menswear chain Burton have launched a new clothing range with an odd inspiration - the northern miners of the decades past and their leader Arthur Sca...
London's Living Wage must increase by 25p an hour, to £8.55, Mayor Boris Johnson has announced, worth an extra £4.5m to workers on low wages. The...
Union activists have demanded action against a murky "blacklisting" website, which purports to show employers whether their potential employees are un...
Trade union representatives in the Civil Service are to face new curbs on the amount of time they can devote to union activities during work hours. ...
T-shirts bearing messages celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher have been removed from sale outside the TUC Congress after being described as "ta...
The Government is on a fresh collision course with millions of workers after warnings of mass strikes in protest at pay freezes, job losses and other ...
Dennis Skinner plans to retire at the next election to make way for a neighbouring Labour MP as the boundaries of his Derbyshire constituency are redrawn. The House of Commons will be a duller place without him.
Public and civil servants could take strike action after Easter in the bitter dispute over pensions, a union has announced. The Public and Commerci...
People who miss next week's tax self-assessment deadline will not be fined because of a strike by tax office staff. HM Revenue and Customs said it ...
A new export strategy could give a £20bn lift to the UK economy by the end of the decade, according to the Confederation of British Industries (CBI),...
Women are the biggest group to be hit by the Government's controversial reforms of public sector pensions which has sparked the threat of a strike by ...
As Labour Party delegates arrived in Liverpool yesterday in preparation for this week's conference, another left wing party was meeting to outline its strategy for the future.
Labour will back public sector strikes if the Government remains "unreasonable" in talks with trade unions over efforts to secure agreement ...
Britain’s biggest public sector union has called for a "substantial increase" in the minimum wage by next autumn, ahead of an increase to a living w...
As an autumn of co-ordinated industrial action by public sector unions looks increasingly likely, HuffPost UK looks at the history of those who ignore...
Trade unions have called a collective day of strike action on 30 November, warning the government that Britain faces the "biggest mobilisation in a ge...
A winter of strike action by more than a million public sector workers is poised to move a step closer. The walkouts would be in prot...
Railway workers have staged a protest outside the London home of Transport Secretary Philip Hammond against rail fare rises and job losses. Mem...
