By John Williams The Socialist Party has restarted campaign stalls in Barry in South Wales as the lockdown has lifted. We’ve been calling for support for a 15% pay increase for NHS workers. The response has been really good – we’ve spoken to several health and care workers who are outraged over the proposed 1% pay ‘rise’, and agree with ...

Trades Councils in Wales again played an important role pushing a fighting agenda forward for the trade union movement, with Socialist Party members prominent moving and seconding the key motions on the most important issues. Opposition to plans by the Wales TUC bureaucracy to reduce trade unions in Wales to mere cheerleaders of the newly elected Welsh Labour Government is ...

Over 40 sparks descended on the Bouygues site at Cardiff University where NG Baileys is working. NG Baileys and Balfour Beatty have been trying to use trainees at reduced rates of pay to install the electrical system at the giant Hinkley Point nuclear power station construction site as so-called Electrical Support Operatives (ESO), which would then be rolled out across ...

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition launches its election campaign in Wales TUSC’s Welsh parliament election campaign got off to a cracking start when over 70 attended the campaign launch meeting online, many of them brand new to the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC). In just a few short weeks TUSC has succeeded in attracting enough new supporters to stand ...

By Ben Golightly Almost one in three children in Wales live in poverty! Even before the Coronavirus pandemic, the EHRC estimated that UK Government tax and welfare reforms would push a further 50,000 children into poverty. This has happened on Welsh Labour’s watch. The Welsh Government’s recent Child Poverty Strategy sets out an action plan which boils down to little ...

By Dave Reid Engineers working for BT’s Open Reach are taking another five days of strike action at four workplaces across South Wales against the imposed re-grading of their jobs. A newly aggressive management at BT are attempting to force the repayment project engineer (RPE) workforce to move to new management grades that would undermine their terms and conditions, put ...

By Dave Warren former DVLA PCS secretary The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) branch of PCS has voted for industrial action against management’s failure to provide a safe working environment. During the first lockdown only 250 essential staff out of the 5,000 strong workforce was required to physically go into the workplace, but since September over 2,000 workers have ...

By Mariam Kamish For the second time in just over a month, a young man has died at the hands of South Wales police. Moyied Bashir’s family were asking for help for their son, who was suffering mental health issues, after being stabbed three weeks earlier. In a harrowing account, Mohamed Bashir, Moyied’s brother, has publicly described how the police ...

By Louise Smith On a freezing-cold Tuesday evening in February, over 100 people gathered outside Cardiff Bay police station. They were there to show solidarity with the friends and family of Mohamud Mohamed Hassan, who are demanding a thorough investigation into his death after being released from police custody last month. Mohamud was released without charge, his family report that ...

Workers are forced to spend hours working within a metre of other workers, but can be fined if they protest at these conditions!