Deliveries of home heating oil could be disrupted before Christmas because of strike action by drivers at the North’s largest supplier.

Travellers have been spared extra disruption at two of Britain’s busiest airports over the Bank Holiday weekend after unions called off planned strikes.

Union leaders tonight accused the company at the centre of the Heathrow airport dispute of walking out of peace talks and claimed that negotiations had now “collapsed”.

The prospects of saving MG Rover looked doomed today after Shanghai Automotive was understood to have decided not to continue talks aimed at securing the UK carmaker’s future.

Hopes of averting a strike by 1.5 million council workers and civil servants dramatically rose today after a breakthrough in a bitter dispute with the Government over pensions.

Moves to create a new 'super union' representing more than two million workers will be stepped up today by leaders of two of the country’s biggest trade unions.

A MERGER between three British unions is set to create a 130,000-member super union in Ireland.

The Government was today urged to intervene in the industrial dispute at Irish Ferries before more jobs are lost.

Jaguar workers in Britain have voted against striking in protest at the ending of car production at their historic factory in Coventry, it was announced today.

The threat of strikes at brewery giant Carlsberg in Britain, which could have hit lager supplies in the run-up to Christmas, ended today after a dispute over pay and working practices was resolved.

Travellers will have to contend with another baggage handlers’ strike at a major holiday airport this weekend.

Hundreds of baggage handlers at Gatwick Airport will go ahead with a 48-hour strike from midnight after hopes of a last-minute breakthrough ended today.

Workers who refuel aircraft at Heathrow airport were tonight preparing to launch a 48 hour strike after rejecting a two year pay offer.

Hundreds of baggage handlers and maintenance workers at Gatwick Airport are to strike on Saturday in a row over workloads, threatening travel chaos, it was announced today.

Jaguar car workers have backed a call for a strike ballot in protest at the ending of motor production at their plant, unions announced today.

Production of Jaguar cars is to end at one of its main UK factories, with the loss of more than 1,100 jobs, the company announced today.

British Labour’s new policy chief was today warned by leading trade unions not to try to change commitments aimed at improving workers’ rights.

THE British Airways’ pay dispute escalated yesterday when thousands more workers including baggage handlers voted to strike, threatening travel chaos for tens of thousands of British holidaymakers.

The British Airways pay dispute escalated today when thousands more workers including baggage handlers voted to strike, threatening travel chaos for tens of thousands of holidaymakers.

Crucial talks aimed at averting travel chaos at airports over the August Bank Holiday weekend will be held today after a union representing thousands of check-in and other staff at British Airways named dates for 24-hour strikes.

British Airways management today offered a way out of the baggage handlers and check-in staff dispute which is threatening to cause airport chaos later this summer.

The biggest union at British Airways is to ballot baggage handlers and check-in staff in a dispute over pay, heightening the threat of airport chaos later in the summer, it was announced today.

Pay talks between leaders of baggage handlers and check-in staff and British Airways have broken down, it was revealed today.

Northern Ireland’s beleaguered textile industry suffered another hammer blow tonight when a Co Tyrone company told its workforce of more than 250 that they are to lose their jobs.

Efforts to resolve the long-running pay dispute at Belfast aerospace company Shorts appeared to have broken down tonight.

Workers at the Shorts Aerospace company are to end their strike.

Belfast aerospace company Shorts today appealed to striking employees to return to work.

Around 4,000 workers at Belfast aerospace company Shorts remained on strike for a second day today after six hours of informal talks between management and unions failed to find a way out of the dispute.

Thousands of workers at Belfast aerospace company Shorts began an all-out strike today.

Talks aimed at resolving a pay row involving baggage handlers at Heathrow airport have failed to produce a breakthrough, it emerged today.

Bus services across Northern Ireland will be halted on Friday when drivers go on strike, it was confirmed tonight.

British Manufacturing workers would face a massive assault on their wages and working conditions if Britain joined the euro, according to a pamphlet published by British Labour eurosceptics today.

The mother of Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager murdered in a racist attack almost 10 years ago, was today addressing a major conference.

Firefighters, security guards and other workers at seven airports in Britain, including Heathrow and Gatwick, are to stage six one-day strikes in a dispute over pay, union leaders announced today.

Baggage handlers at budget carrier EasyJet are being balloted on whether to strike in a pay dispute over pay.

Security staff at one of the UK's biggest airports were today staging a two-hour strike in a long-running dispute over jobs.

British P&O tanker drivers are to be balloted over industrial action.

Trade unionists held a rally in Dublin last night in support of Mick O’Reilly, who was sacked as Irish secretary of the ATGWU last week.

More than 500 security staff at Manchester Airport are due to start a four-day strike at midnight.

MG Rover is establishing a joint venture with China Brilliance Industrial Holdings.

MG Rover workers have voted overwhelmingly not to take industrial action in a dispute over pay and hours.

Vauxhall will start to be hit by industrial action today as part of a union campaign against the ending of vehicle production at one of the firm's UK factories.

Workers at BMW's Cowley factory in Britain, where the new Mini will be built, have voted to accept a new two-year pay deal.