Mick Cash, the senior assistant general secretary of the RMT union, told the Potters Bar inquest last week that the 2002 train crash was caused by the standards of contractors’ work slipping since privatisation.
Two major disputes are planned to hit the London transport network.
Jackson is 12 years old. He is in a wheelchair and goes to a special needs school.
Police in London have removed the Democracy Village that was set up in Parliament Square on May Day.
Health funding is becoming an ever more contentious issue as more and more groups realise what the "GP-led" funding system will mean for them.
Lewisham: workers angry vote for fight over cuts Members of Lewisham Unison union in south London voted by 120 votes to four for industrial action last week.
The Tories’ Academies Bill could be law within days – because they are using special rules to rush it through parliament.
David Cameron claimed on Monday that his "big society" agenda was about the "biggest, most dramatic redistribution of power" from the state to individuals.
Hundreds of parents, children and teachers joined a rally and protest in central London on Monday of this week against education secretary Michael Gove’s school rebuilding cuts.
Two more national unions last week backed the demonstration at the Tory Party conference in Birmingham on Sunday 3 October.
Around 300 people marched through Portsmouth on Monday of this week to protest against the Tory cutting of the Building Schools for the Future programme.
The true cost of the recession for workers’ living standards is being hidden by an explosion of part-time work.
