Steve Hart, Unite regional secretary, said: "This is provocative and irresponsible."
Unite members will have the final say on the new civil servant redundancy compensation package hammered out with the government.
A court of appeal decision today leaves dying people and their families unsure whether they will be entitled to compensation after insurance companies were partly successful in a test case about who picks up the bill in claims for the fatal asbestos illness, mesothelioma.
European trade unions at Coca-Cola Enterprises are planning coordinated action on 27 October against the company's European wide restructuring which is being pushed through without proper consultation.
Unite members at Tyneside Safety Glass will take two weeks of continuous strike action beginning on 18 October 2010.
Unite confirmed that 185 bus workers at CT Plus in Hackney will take strike action this Friday for 24 hours.
Construction union UCATT has pledged to campaign vigorously in order to overturn a decision announced in the Court of Appeal today (October 8th), which will mean that thousands of dying asbestos victims will be barred from claiming compensation.
Commenting on today’s announcement that Thomas Cook and the Co-op plan to merge their high street travel businesses in a move expected to cost hundreds of UK jobs, Gerry Doherty, leader of the TSSA travel union which represents Thomas Cook staff in Peterborough and High Street travel shops around the country, said:
Co-operative Travel and Thomas Cook have today announced they are to form a joint venture which could potentially create the UK's largest travel retailer.
Tunnock's has finally tabled an offer which Unite can strongly recommend to it smembers.