News

Jobless rate falls to new low (258 words)

The number of people unemployed and claiming benefit fell by 18,000 to ...

Peugeot workers win hours cut (307 words)

Unions at motor manufacturer Peugeot have reached agreement with the ...

Ford let off race inquiry (195 words)

The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) has suspended its decision to ...

Coats Viyella adds to textile jobs misery (221 words)

Unions have attacked the axing of over 1,900 jobs by textile ...

Pay for union learning reps (253 words)

Union learning representatives are to have a legal right to paid release ...

Farm workers' wages to remain protected (249 words)

The Agricultural Wages Board, which sets minimum wages and conditions ...

DTI consults working parents (72 words)

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has launched a consultation ...

Public sector staff keep up tough stance (192 words)

Members of health union UNISON at the Dudley Group of Hospitals stopped ...

Union news

Recognition law brings more voluntary deals (336 words)

The new recognition law is encouraging voluntary agreements with ...

Spies to get a union (92 words)

Spies are likely to get collective trade union representation, according ...

Carpet workers to join ISTC (48 words)

The Power Loom Carpet Weavers and Textile Workers Union, with 1,300 ...

Unions expand member benefits (269 words)

TUC unions introduced 49 new services for their members in the last ...

Features

Key Economic Indicators (419 words)

FULL-TIME AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS ...

October events (210 words)

* Thursday 5: Safe and Healthy Call Centres. Conference, London. ...

TUC slams report that says discrimination is "rational" (303 words)

A report claiming that employers may have a "rational reason" for ...

Review concludes need for single Equality Act (197 words)

An independent review of anti-discrimination legislation has called for ...

Majority of disabled workforce remains hidden (233 words)

Some of Britain's largest and best-known employers do not know how many ...

German shop unions reject longer hours (380 words)

German unions have slammed plans to extend shop opening hours put ...

Transport strike in Italy (67 words)

An Italian transport strike affected local train, bus and tram services ...

One in four suffer sexual harassment (271 words)

Nearly a quarter of employees consider that they had suffered from some ...

Union merger in balance (111 words)

The future of Ver.di, the new union to be created by a merger of five ...

Is Labour in touch with its roots? (1847 words)

The Labour Party has stopped short of cutting unions out of local ...

Black reps key to workplace culture (1871 words)

New research shows that many union reps are unclear what makes for a ...

Banking on job losses (1089 words)

The massive spate of takeovers and mergers in banks and insurance ...

Website (269 words)

Health and safety information is a particularly developed area on the ...

Painless partnership (1402 words)

Unions are showing employers that the best way to reduce the scourge of ...

Law Matters

EMPLOYERS TOLD TO CONSULT OVER CONTRACT CHANGES (293 words)

The GMB general union has won an important victory in a case against Man ...

Arbitration scheme delayed (81 words)

Government plans to introduce a voluntary arbitration scheme, as an ...

Intercepting e-mails (82 words)

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 comes into force this ...

Equal pay win (290 words)

A former employee of National Power has won the right to take an equal ...

EAT ruling on homeworking (60 words)

Working at home ...

Law Queries

Law queries (758 words)

* We are in dispute with our employer and want to impose an overtime ...

Law Back-up

How Human rights apply in the workplace (669 words)

The Human Rights Act 1998 finally comes into force on the 2 October, ...

The european Convention (173 words)

In 1948 most of the major world powers adopted the Universal Declaration ...

Health & Safety Matters

Bank stress payout (58 words)

A former bank worker was awarded more than £100,000 in an out-of-court ...

Simon Jones demonstration (74 words)

Around 70 supporters of the Simon Jones campaign, set up to win justice ...

VWF compensation (40 words)

Eight former North West Water workers have won compensation totalling ...

Correction (507 words)

In August Labour Research reported that train drivers' union ASLEF was ...

Health & Safety Back-up

First aid equipment and facilities AT WORK (738 words)

Around one million accidents occur in the workplace every year. Yet only ...

Workplace Back-up

Employers dodging the law on holiday rights (824 words)

A recent report by the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux ...

Reviews

Employment relations in Britain (178 words)

Edited by Brian Towers & William Brown, Blackwell Publishers, 203 pages, ...

The Agitator (66 words)

Haringey Solidarity Group, PO Box 2474, London N8, 67 pages, £1.44 ...

The TUC From the general strike to new unionism (226 words)

Robert Taylor, Palgrave, 299 pages, paperback, £15.99 ...