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TRANSPORT union Aslef demanded to know what the Prime Minister had to hide yesterday after reports he personally blocked proposals to bring taxpayer-backed Network Rail under freedom of information laws.
From September 1, accounting changes will see the infrastructure firm formally added to the government’s books as a public body.
But Lib Dem Justice Minister Simon Hughes, who is reportedly pushing for a big expansion of FoI laws, said that plans for the 100 per cent taxpayer-funded body to come under the scope of FoI legislation next month had been scuppered from “somewhere in Tory central command.”
JOHN GREEN has doubts about the efficacy of the Freedom of Information Act, once trumpeted by Tony Blair
On the eve of the 157th Trades Union Congress, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, celebrates victory in his campaign to get dignity for drivers at work
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more