Trade unions

The trial will see passengers pay more or less depending on how busy a service is Photo by Dan Dennison/Getty Images)

Full List of train ticket office closures, is your area affected?

'The offenders were not just small service companies, they included WH Smith, Lloyds Pharmacy and Marks & Spencer and Argos.' PIC: Philip Toscano/PA Wire

Big firms have no excuse for failing to pay workers minimum wage - YP Letters

Teachers are among just one of the many professions striking

Who is striking and when in 2023?

University staff go on strike today with more on the way as pay and pension dispute rages on (Photo by Martin Pope/Getty Images)

University staff go on strike over pay and pension dispute

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch (centre) on an RMT picket line during January’s strike (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Who is on strike today? Teachers & junior doctors included

Rail workers will stage a series of fresh strikes in March and April (Photo: Getty Images)

Strike action taking place in March 2023 in the UK - including NEU

NHS workers and supporters gather outside Downing Street to protest. PIC: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Selfish actions of unions will lead to more inflation - Yorkshire Post Letters

Representatives of National Education Union (NEU), Communication Workers Union (CWU) and the public-service union Unison join a rally by the University and College Union (UCU).

UK mass strike will see half a million workers walk out today

Who is striking in February 2023? Full list of all industrial action

'Since Margaret Thatcher tamed the unions we have had until recently nearly 40 years of relative peace and plenty'. PIC: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Unions need to wake up and start looking forwards - Bernard Ingham

Members of the RMT stand on a picket line outside Manchester Piccadilly train station during the national rail strike over pay on August 18, 2022 in Manchester, England. PIC: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images

Save the ire shown towards trade unions for billionaire donors - YP Letters

The Conservative Government. PIC: Stefan Rousseau - WPA Pool/Getty Images

Trade unions are only trying to bring the Tory Party down - YP Letters

Organiser and host of one of the rally events Taj Ali

Enough is Enough Rally: what is happening on October 1

Grant Shapps is the Transport Secretary.

Our railways need reform - not more union militancy - Grant Shapps

At the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Yorkshire conference this weekend, members supported a statement by its regional council that a split based on the existing model of North Yorkshire and the City of York "causes the least disruption to services and staff and allows continuity of services for the vast majority". Pic: James Hardisty

TUC says splitting up North Yorkshire councils 'would lead to major disruption'

Mizan Muqit is the general secretary of co-founder of the Equality for Workers Union based in Leeds.

Why trade unions need to do more to attract younger members

Leeds Council is among those who subsidise trade union activities out of the public purse.

James Price: Why should taxpayers subsidise unions?

Greg Clark

Labour claims new company rules will not stop a repeat of scandals like BHS coll...

Chris McGovern: Teachers’ strike threat is just a lesson in self-interest

Rail plan just a fast track to ruin for North

Bradford workers get warning of fresh round of council office closures
TRADE unions at a Yorkshire council are being consulted on the latest phase of a 10-year building disposal and investment project which will see more of the city’s workplaces either closed or upgraded.

Troubled banks reveal 500 staff members paid more than £1m

Regional NHS pay will lead to poorer patient care, say nurses

MPs question wisdom of police move

BAE confirms loss of 900 Brough jobs

Pensions petition wins online support

Unions set to fight court ruling on pensions

Karen Reay: If you listen to the pension facts, you’ll back the strikers

Concern for future of 32 family centres over council shake-up

John Cafferty: Why the trade unions are good for business

Alan Lamb: Unions wasting taxpayers’ cash in times of austerity

NHS bosses called to explain huge cuts
HEALTH chiefs from Barnsley Hospital who have proposed massive cuts in response to Government austerity measures have been summoned to appear before a committee of local councillors tomorrow to explain their ideas.

Unions threaten 'maximum damage' at steel firm

Tony Lodge: At last, the penny drops over power struggle