Make big business pay, not workers Queues at petrol stations causing traffic chaos, fuel bills rising with energy firms going bust and the risk of empty supermarket shelves for Christmas – all symptoms of a system that is sick. A £20-a-week cut to Universal Credit, the end of furlough and a hike in national insurance – all ways in which ...

Carmarthenshire Unison’s campaign for a Trade Union Recognition Agreement (TURA) with Cwm Environmental (carried on this website here) continues after the summer break. On Thursday 9th September Unison and GMB members supported by Socialist Party and Swansea Trades Council protested outside County Hall calling on the council that wholly owns Cwm Environmental to give agree to a TURA. Mark Evans, ...

Social care is in crisis and needs fixing. There’s no doubt about that. Over 40,000 died from Covid in care homes during the pandemic in an overwhelmingly privatised system that puts profit before safety. Average pay for care workers is a paltry £8.50 an hour. One in four are on zero-hour contracts. With that level of pay and condition it’s ...

By Evan Vaughan (Swansea Socialist Party) The Youth Fight for Jobs campaign has been relaunched, ready to fight the slew of job losses expected to come down the pipeline after the furlough scheme ends. This follows the ending of the eviction ban. That has been replaced by longer eviction notices, a pathetic attempt to prevent the hardship coming to workers. ...

By Niall Mulholland (Committee for a Workers International – CWI) On Sunday 15 August, Taliban militiamen, packed onto their trademark pick-up trucks, drove unopposed into Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, ousting the US-backed government of Ashraf Ghani. Thousands of fearful residents, many with bitter memories of the last Taliban regime, tried desperately to board planes to flee the hardline Islamic force. Ghani ...

By a Cardiff bar worker Working in the hospitality industry, has been described by some in the past as a form of ‘Stockholm syndrome’. We like our job, the people we meet and the service we provide, but why should we just accept the inevitable exploitation and insecurity’s we will face on shift? And it’s not like hospitality bosses haven’t ...

By Katrine Williams, Wales TUC general council (in a personal capacity The UK Tory government is setting up another colossal experiment which could put wave three of the pandemic into super-exponential growth. Placing all the blame on us. The ‘learning to live with Covid’ mantra just means the Tories are happy to accept more people will die and do nothing ...

By Dave Warren, PCS Member and retired DVLA branch secretary The dispute at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) over Covid safety is now in its third month. The dispute is unusual, in that the leadership of PCS, the union representing the workers, is taking direct responsibility, with regular Zoom meetings for members chaired by the President Fran Heathcote ...

Carmarthenshire Unison, GMB and Unite has appealed for solidarity to force Plaid Cymru-led Carmarthenshire county council to instruct Cwm Environmental, the waste disposal company wholly owned by the council, to agree to a trade union recognition agreement (TURA). The Carmarthenshire council unions are appealing for support for their online petition. This is their appeal letter: “Unison, GMB and Unite, the ...

By Jaime Davies Two years and six months ago we tragically lost a brilliant comrade and a wonderful friend, Socialist Party member Bethan Roper. Our loss, both personally and on the battlefield of class struggle, is still difficult and painful to come to terms with. Her family, friends and comrades will always feel it, and will continue to press for ...