Leading industrial relations academics sent this letter to the Guardian condemning BA’s tactics. Dear Editor, As academics in the field of employment relations our expertise includes the analysis of the causes, process and outcomes of industrial disputes and particularly the dynamics of strike action. Given the near certainty of further strikes (Follow-up strike will go ahead says

1. New strike dates named 2. Action puts ‘Boris' under pressure 3. Come to Reading and Leeds to help raise money 4. Meeting to oppose victimisation of activists From the Facebook group in support of the Cleaners strike: 1. New strike dates named The RMT executive has named dates for a second, three-day round of strikes. These will take place between

Last week, Unison members in the Meat Hygiene Service - 1,000 out of 1400 frontline meat inspectors - voted to go on strike over pay and working patterns. On Monday, a union meeting decided to hold three days of strike action in early December. The inspectors work in England, Scotland and Wales and...

The UK looks likely to face its first national rail strike since the system's privatisation after two rail trade unions announced plans for four days of strikes starting two days after Easter.

PUPILS at a Coventry primary school will be sent home for three days next week because of the latest council strike.Teaching assistants and secretarial staff at Holbrook Primary School will be on strike next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Parking attendants will also be out on the same three days in the latest escalation of the bitter single status pay dispute.

Workers are much less likely to go on strike than they were in the 1970s and 1980s as the UK goes into a recession, according to union activists and industrial relations experts. Last month, in a groundbreaking agreement, union members at digger firm JCB voted to take a cut in wages to save 322 jobs. Union leaders there said that workers had no appetite for industrial action to try to prevent all ...

Changes to strike ballots should be made as part of the "modernisation" of industrial relations, a think tank says

One hundred days until the local elections and the most likely date for the General Election: May 6th. And, whilst blogs, websites, Facebook and the rest of it will play a supporting role, our real battles will be fought on the ground in Liberal Democrat held and target seats up and down the country. It will

Commentators are desperately trying to write something original about Obama's first 100 days in office but most are sticking to tried and tested formulae, writes Christopher Buckley

NUJ members at the London-based Morning Star are to strike over low pay. They’ve voted 11 to three in a ballot for industrial action and last night called a one-day walk-out for Monday 23 February - with a week of strike action to follow if management refuses to compromise. NUJ Father of...