The biggest rail workers union demanded information today about a media "undercover surveillance operation" against the union and its general secretary.

BBC presenter Jeremy Clarkson remained at the centre of a storm of protest tonight despite apologising for saying striking public sector workers "should be shot".

Schools, hospitals, courts and transport were hit by the biggest strike in decades today as teachers, nurses and civil servants joined weather forecasters, botanists and nuclear physicists on picket lines.

Union barons are meant to be arrogant and politically motivated. But that's nothing like the man who will be leading next week's public sector strike

A government minister was today accused of dashing hopes of saving thousands of jobs after refusing to change a controversial decision to award a lucrative train-building contract to a German firm.

London Underground drivers will refuse to follow new instructions after voting in favour of industrial action in a row over safety, it was announced today.

Ray Boyfield was one of the Trades Union Congress officials who played a major part in helping the organisation after the war become one of the most effective forces in the restructuring of industry and social welfare. Mentioned as a possible successor to George Woodcock as general secretary, he left the trade union movement to join private industry as a labour-relations adviser and then to join the National Industrial Relations Court which was boycotted by the TUC.

A woman called out "Mum! Mum! Mum!" as her mother lay fatally injured in the Grayrigg train crash, an inquest heard today.

A new union is striving to win fairer job rights for some of the UK's 100,000 Bangladeshi-British chefs

David Cameron has intervened directly in an independent inquiry into political funding to demand a more favourable outcome for the Conservatives and a severe clampdown on Labour's trade union donations.

London Underground drivers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in a row over safety, it was announced today.

Trade unions will today defy Ed Miliband's plea for them to hold back from striking over cuts to public sector pensions by backing a wave of co-ordinated industrial action this winter.

Ed Miliband will today warn the trade unions they must modernise outdated workplace practices so they can play their part in Britain's "new economy".

One in four railway ticket offices in England and Wales could close, with the loss of over 1,000 jobs, under recommendations in a Government-commissioned report "buried" in the small print, a leading transport union warned today.