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Unions

  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Boeing Co
    Boeing imposes hiring freeze and purchasing cuts to conserve cash

    Manufacturer is considering temporary furloughs in response to a strike that threatens its recovery

    Boeing workers on the picket line
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Boeing Co
    Boeing faces cash crunch as machinists’ strike weighs on production

    Chief financial officer Brian West tells investors the labour dispute will delay goal to reach 737 Max production target on time

    Machinists union members picketed a Boeing facility in Renton, Washington Friday
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Boeing Co
    Boeing workers begin strike after rejecting 25% pay rise

    Company under pressure to sweeten offer as analysts say a long stoppage could hit its credit rating

    Boeing workers holds signs as they wait in line to vote on their first full contract in 16 years in Renton, Washington, on Thursday
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Tesco PLC
    Tesco warehouse staff win ‘fire and rehire’ case

    Decision by UK Supreme Court to overturn earlier ruling welcomed by shop workers’ union

    Signage outside a Tesco store in south London
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Volkswagen AG
    VW ends three-decade job security pact in Germany

    Trade union responds by threatening strike action at Europe’s largest carmaker

    Employees work on the assembly line of the VW ID 4 electric car at the carmaker’s production site in Emden, Germany
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Keir Starmer pledges to end attacks on trade union movement

    PM will herald Labour’s repeal of anti-strike laws at the TUC as he insists his party can also work with business

    Sir Keir Starmer
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Boeing Co
    Boeing reaches tentative deal with union to avert damaging strike

    Industrial action by production workers would have piled new problems on struggling aerospace manufacturer

    In July, tens of thousands of District 751 union members rallied at a Seattle stadium for a strike authorisation vote
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    InterviewPaul Nowak
    ‘Give people hope’: TUC urges government to invest in growth and services

    Spending announced by Labour should just be the start, says Paul Nowak ahead of union congress

    Paul Nowak
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    UK labour disputes
    Rail strikes on Britain’s east coast line are called off

    Train drivers’ union reaches deal with operator of one of the country’s busiest long-distance routes

    An LNER passenger train sits at a platform in London’s King’s Cross station as passengers disembark
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    UK employment
    Banks and accounting firms should brace for cost of AI job losses, unions warn

    UK employee groups step up calls for regulation of new technology in workplace

    Two people working in a modern office, focusing on a tablet device. One person is typing on the tablet, while the other holds a pen. A white coffee cup is visible in the foreground.
  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    UK political party funding
    Unite gives more than £500,000 to Labour MPs but shuns party HQ over Starmer

    Union was largest backer under more left-wing leaders Corbyn and Miliband

    Unite members back NHS workers in a protest last year
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    UK employment
    Unions push for UK public sector ‘pay restoration’ in challenge to Labour

    TUC delegates to vote on call for above-inflation pay rises at conference next month

    Striking members of the Public and Commercial Services union protesting outside Downing Street in London on March 15 2023
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    Starmer’s trade union summer of love will soon sour

    Public service reforms to both rail and health are coming swiftly down the track

    Illustration of Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves shaking hands with the unions, represented by a big power salute fist and a line of people. Starmer has his fingers crossed behind his back
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Canada
    Businesses warn on ‘devastating’ effect of a Canadian railway strike

    Industry groups and companies call on Ottawa to help avert potentially disruptive stoppage

    A Canadian Pacific Kansas City train car outside the Canadian Pacific Railway Toronto Yard in Toronto
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    Trump courts union vote as Teamsters holds off from backing Harris

    The presidential election has split one of the most powerful and storied US labour groups

  • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
    UK labour disputes
    New wave of UK strikes looms as pay deals spur unions to bargain harder

    Health, transport and local government groups ballot for further action

    Striking junior doctors protest outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London on day one of their industrial action in June 2024
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Harris gains endorsement of car workers as union support builds

    Backing from UAW a boost for Democratic presidential candidate with labour issues set to be central to election campaign

    A woman rides her mini bike in support of UAW strike against at a Missouri General Motors plant that manufactures trucks and vans in Wentzville, Missouri
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Amazon.com
    Amazon beats back union bid for UK recognition

    GMB ballot at Coventry warehouse falls just short of majority

    Striking Amazon workers speak to a lorry driver on a picket line in Coventry last year
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    UK employment
    Amazon launches anti-union charm offensive ahead of UK workers’ vote

    Campaign is part of tech giant’s long-running global battle to prevent employees from organising

    The GMB union campaigns outside Amazon’s offices in Coventry
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Strike called off at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot site after talks offer

    Move by union Unite paves way for negotiations with Indian-owned company over future of UK operations

    Workers demonstrating outside the Port Talbot steelworks in June over job cuts
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Union in talks with Tata Steel in push to avert early Port Talbot closure

    Unite considers exempting some workers from strike action after discussions with Labour leadership

    A Tata Steel employee working at the Port Talbot furnace
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Tata Steel threatens to shut Port Talbot blast furnaces early over strikes

    Britain’s biggest steelmaker also challenges validity of Unite ballot on industrial action

    Tata Steel at Port Talbot
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Amazon.com
    Amazon’s workers at UK warehouse to vote on union representation

    Results of ballot of 3,000 Coventry-based staff due on July 15

    Amazon workers with GMB union placards during a strike outside the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry in January 2023
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Labour to pledge better deal for Port Talbot steelworks

    Up to 2,800 jobs imperilled as owner Tata shifts to less carbon-intensive electric arc furnace

    Tata Steel’s Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Automobiles
    Blow to UAW as Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama vote against union

    Defeat marks a reversal for the United Auto Workers after victory at Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga

    Exterior of Mercedes plant in Vance, Alabama
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