Trade unions and trade union recognition

New and updated

• Labour disputes

  Type:

  Indicators

  Updated to include official statistics from the ONS for October 2018 on days lost to labour disputes and the number of stoppages. The next ONS release date is 22 January 2019.

• Cases on appeal

  Type:

  Law reports

  Updated to reflect that the Court of Appeal will hear the appeals in Ali v Capita Customer Management Ltd and Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police on 1 May 2019.

• High Court upholds Deliveroo self-employment and collective bargaining ruling

  Date:

  6 December 2018

  Type:

  News

  The High Court has held that Deliveroo riders are self-employed and cannot form a collective bargaining unit.

• Union claims council 'secretly' rewarded staff that did not strike

  Date:

  28 November 2018

  Type:

  News

  Birmingham City Council refuse workers are considering whether to go on strike, following allegations that the council "secretly" paid several thousands of pounds to a group of staff that did not take part in industrial action last year.

• Equal pay strike hits Glasgow schools and services

  Date:

  24 October 2018

  Type:

  News

  Hundreds of schools and nurseries are closed in Glasgow after around 8,000 workers began a two-day strike over a long-running dispute about equal pay.

• Union urges Uber users not to cross 'digital picket line'

  Date:

  11 October 2018

  Type:

  News

  The IWGB union has a called a 24-hour strike against Uber and is urging the public not to use the taxi-hailing app.

• Hospitality workers strike over pay and union recognition

  Date:

  4 October 2018

  Type:

  News

  Workers at McDonald's, TGI Fridays, JD Wetherspoon, Deliveroo and Uber Eats are staging a 24-hour walk out today, in separate disputes over pay and union recognition.

• McDonald's, Wetherspoon and TGI Friday workers to strike next month

  Date:

  20 September 2018

  Type:

  News

  Workers at JD Wetherspoon, McDonald's and TGI Fridays are to strike on 4 October over pay.

• Prison officers call off protest action after withdrawal of court threat

  Date:

  17 September 2018

  Type:

  News

  Prison officers' protests outside jails in England and Wales have been called off by the Prison Officers' Association after prisons minister Rory Stewart withdrew the threat of court action against the union.

• The consequences of trade union recognition

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include a link to the government website where data submitted by public-sector employers relating to facility time will be published.