BRITAIN’S biggest public sector union said its members had voted in favour of a national strike later this month, piling pressure on ministers in an ongoing dispute over pension reforms.

More than a million public sector workers are to vote on strikes from next week in the biggest-ever union industrial action ballot, it was announced today.

A strike by up to 750,000 teachers, civil servants and other public sector workers in the UK is set to go ahead after crunch talks with the Government today failed to end a bitter row over pensions and spending cuts.

Manchester: Britain could face the biggest wave of industrial action in a generation if agreement cannot be reached on public sector pension reform, the leader of the biggest public sector union warned yesterday.

A mass protest being staged in London today against cuts in public spending was set to be the biggest for years as more people than expected turned up to send an angry message to the British Government.

Unions and employers in Britain reacted with "alarm" today after unemployment surged to a 14-year high, prompting fresh calls for the UK government help for the growing army of jobless.

British chancellor Alistair Darling will today face down critics of the UK government by insisting he will not take unnecessary risks with the economy to provide short-term gains.

The UK’s biggest trade union today called for an investigation into what it branded as “obscene” profits being made by private firms from the NHS.

The British government plans to give fathers up to six months paternity leave and a year off work for mothers will help tackle the UK’s long hours culture, campaigners said tonight.

Call centre workers are suffering from a new industrial disease that is putting their livelihoods at risk, Britain’s biggest union warned today.

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.

Members of Britain's biggest trade union have voted overwhelmingly to keep their political fund, it was announced today.

The gap between the pay of women and men in the UK is wider than previously thought and has not narrowed as quickly as previous figures suggested, new research revealed today.

Nominations opened today for the job of general secretary of Unison, the UK’s biggest trade union.

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

Pressure for Britain not to join the single currency is growing with one of the country's biggest unions saying today that public spending would be cut by £10bn (€16bn) if the UK joined.