This area of policy is of concern to other big unions too. Last year Gary Smith, general secretary of the GMB Union, warned that Miliband’s net-zero transition will be “measured in redundancies” among ...

As storm clouds gather over Keir Starmer’s leadership of the Labour party, there’s one headwind that could worsen the outlook: his relationship with the trade unions. Although they no longer wield the ...

UNITE the union has decided to cut its affiliation to the Labour Party by more than half a million pounds a year, or more than 40 per cent.The immediate reason is the continuing incapacity of the ...

As Britain’s second-largest union cuts its affiliate contribution, Sean O’Grady examines the state of relations between the ...

Not a single union has opposed the Australian state’s role in the illegal war, let alone called for industrial action to halt ...

Will the pursuit of a closer relationship with the EU risk courting electoral disaster by alienating Brexit-backing voters?

THE first tranche of new employment rights became operative on February 18. Variously billed as the “biggest upgrade in workers’ rights in a generation” (Keir Starmer) and echoed by the TUC in ...