Carmarthenshire Unison has written to Health and Social Care Minister, Vaughn Gething, to express the concern of council workers who are being put in danger by the negligence of governments who failed to prepare for the Coronavirus crisis and are not taking the necessary measures to protect them now. Health workers and care workers in the front line in the ...

By a Public and Commercial Services union shop steward I work for the Civil Service and am a member of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) of which I am a local and regional representative. Like many of my colleagues I was shocked and appalled at the Home Office’s decision to call workers at Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HMPO) ...

Carmarthenshire County Unison branch has spoken out at the failure of the Welsh government to provide PPE

EE is making it very clear why we can’t leave it to the bosses to control our response to the corona virus crisis. Not content with dragging its call-centre workforce in to work in the midst of the pandemic (including sales and debt collection), EE is now demanding that many of its high-street shop workers travel back to their workplaces ...

Statement from the International Secretariat of the Committee For A Workers International On the other side of the coronavirus pandemic crisis, things will never be the same again. This will be similar to the situation after the two world wars of the twentieth century. The general situation has already unmistakably “changed, changed utterly!” Moreover, it is the rapid speed of ...

Editorial of the Socialist, issue 1078 Boris Johnson won the general election by trying to pose as a ‘man of the people’. Despite the rhetoric the first budget of his premiership showed clearly that, like all Tory administrations, his is a government of the capitalist class, not the working-class majority. It came against the background of a rapidly growing global ...

By Cardiff University Socialist Students Attempts to scrap the support that Cardiff University Students’ Union had given the UCU strike were roundly defeated last night when Tory students couldn’t even get enough students to turn up to an “Emergency Members’ Meeting” (EMM) to debate their motion!Last November the Students’ Union AGM voted to support action by the UCU by a ...

By Mark Evans, branch secretary Carmarthenshire County Unison (personal capacity) On Tuesday 3rd March Carmarthenshire County Unison branch along with Socialist Party members and other anti-cuts campaigners lobbied Plaid-led Carmarthenshire County Council full council meeting (where the budget was being voted on) calling on councillors to make a stand and implement our branch’s no cuts budget. Plaid Cymru councillors voting for ...

International Women’s Day, with its history of being rooted in struggle, has, in recent years, been diminished – much like the Pride marches for LGBTQ+ rights, have. Big business increasingly uses it as a cynical opportunity to give the illusion of being progressive and inclusive. Sinead Daly looks at the real history of International Working Women’s Day and the socialist ...

Dr. Jon Dale As new coronavirus infections gather pace – in Britain and around the world – Boris Johnson claims the country is “well-prepared with a fantastic NHS.” Who’s he kidding? NHS performance this winter was the worst on record – before a single patient developed coronavirus Covid-19. Decades of under-investment in all public services were followed by the past ...