The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has announced that Frances O'Grady will be its new general secretary, the first female leader of the organisation. She will take over from Brendan Barber as general secretary when he retires at the end of this year.
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Government plans to introduce no-fault dismissal are unpopular and unhelpful, the EEF has warned.
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Workers are set to strike at Mahle Engine Systems in Kilmarnock after failed eleventh hour negotiations over the manufacturing plant's future.
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Workers at BMW's Mini plant in Oxford have overwhelmingly rejected what unions called a 'strings attached' pay offer, raising the prospect of the first strike since 1984.
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AstraZeneca could cut over 1,000 manufacturing jobs globally in a restructuring programme that will hit over 7,000 employees.
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Unite has warned Benham Goodhead Print (BGP) that it will claim for damages on behalf of workers should the printer push through with plans to impose a 20% pay cut.
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Manufacturing workers at Unilever are marching on the company's London offices in a "battle bus" as they step up their campaign against changes to the company's pension scheme.
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Unite has branded David Cameron's Coalition the worst ever Conservative government for UK manufacturing.
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Unite the union says it has walked out on negotiations with Ford UK about the future of the car maker's pension scheme.
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Unite, Britain's largest union, has demanded the government step into save thousands of BAE workers from losing their jobs.
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Business are bracing themselves for industrial unrest in the UK with more than eight in 10 saying they believe there will be increased industrial action over the coming months. Those in the manufacturing sector, however, are less prone to predicting strikes.
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New labour market statistics published yesterday (13 October) showed the number of jobs in UK manufacturing continuing to fall, reaching another new all-time low of 2.515 million – 96,000 and 3.7% fewer than a year ago.
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Employers gained on average one extra day of work per employee in 2009 due to lower absence levels with more than four in 10 staff refusing to take a single day off sick during the year.
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The average level of pay settlements in manufacturing has risen slightly according to the latest figures. However, the overall levels remain at a historic low demonstrating the impact of continued tough trading conditions on companies.
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The pace of job losses in the UK manufacturing sector is continuing to fall, it appears, according to the latest official labour market figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) today (17 February).
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While the number of jobs supported by the UK's manufacturing sector has continued to fall, new labour market figures published today (16 December) suggest that the latest quarterly increase in overall unemployment is the smallest since the spring of 2008.
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The Government has announced a £60 million-plus investment in the North East to support the region's industrial transition to low carbon and advanced manufacturing.
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An international consortium's breaking of a binding contract has led steel maker Corus to mothball facilities belonging to its Teesside Cast Products (TCP) business in northeast England and will cost 1,700 British manufacturing jobs.
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Manufacturers want to retain 65 as the normal retirement age but when their employees ask to stay on, most are sympathetic to the prospect. So says a survey on employers' retirement arrangements published today (18 November) by the manufacturers' organisation EEF.
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The total number of jobs in UK manufacturing has fallen again according to the latest official labour statistics published today (11 November) although the attrition rate has slowed very slightly.
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Despite the latest labour market statistics marching towards a predicted three million peak and the manufacturing sector registering and annual fall of approaching a quarter of a million jobs, experts yesterday (15 October) hailed the new figures as "highly encouraging".
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More than four out of five manufacturers are now freezing pay, highlighting the extent to which tough economic conditions continue to impact on companies in the sector.
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Despite recent signs of a slight upturn in the industrial economy, the number of people remaining at work in Britain's factories has plummeted to a new record low, according to the official labour market figures published today (16 September) by the Office for National Statistics.
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Two-thirds of manufacturing companies are now freezing pay - the highest percentage reported for more than 20 years.
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Works Management has learned that bosses at Jaguar Landrover have written to all employees asking them to accept a delayed payment date for salaries from this month. Rather than the usual pay day of 15th, the company wants to push payments to the end of the month to ease its ongoing cashflow problems.
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