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After 17 days of strike action Stagecoach members of Unite at Cwmbran, Blackwood and Brynmawr depots have voted to accept a deal that wins a £1 an hour rise to £10.50, backdated to April. Attacks on sick pay and rights for new starters were also fought off. Stagecoach had offered a measly £10.10 an hour which would be paid for ...

By Dave Reid Stagecoach drivers in Cwmbran, Blackwood and Brynmawr are standing firm for a decent pay rise for all workers at the depots. Today on the 17th day of strike action the managing director came out of his office to discuss with pickets. The strikers made it absolutely clear that they will stand firm. The strike has been solid ...

By Dave Reid and Gareth Bromhall Thousands across have marched to protest at the inaction of the world’s capitalist politicians to prevent catastrophic climate change. Well over 1000 marched from Cardiff City Hall to the Senedd. Socialist Party Wales and Socialist Students had large and lively contingents shouting “Our planet is not for sale” and “Socialist change, not climate change”. ...

By Dave Reid Over 200 stagecoach drivers at Cwmbran, Blackwood and Brynmawr depots, members of Unite, have completed their sixth day of strike action, the first of six phases. The next strike day is due to be Friday 29th October unless the company gives into the union demands for a rise to £10.50 an hour from £9.50. The company has ...

It was pouring with rain but pickets had been out since 4.00 am this morning at Blackwood, Cwmbran and Brynmawr Stagecoach depots fighting for a decent pay rise. Over 250 bus drivers, members of Unite the Union at the three Stagecoach depots in the Gwent valleys have started 16 days  strike action to fight for a basic pay rise. Bus ...

Postal deliveries in Llanelli ground to a halt on Wednesday 13 October when postal workers at Llanelli Delivery Office walked out to force Royal Mail to re-instate Gary Evans, who has been wrongfully dismissed. Postal workers in the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at Llanelli Delivery Office had voted 98.6% for strike action in defence of Gary. The picket line was ...

Young workers and students took to the streets in Wales to protest for better pay and conditions and against the fees rip off in universities at rallies organised by Youth Fight For Jobs. In Cardiff students marched from the university down to the city centre to join young trade union activists at a rally before marching to the job centre. ...

Trade unions must fight for a new workers’ party Editorial from The Socialist Issue 1249 The person who said New Labour was “intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich” is now intensely happy about the results of this year’s Labour Party conference. Architect of Blairism, Lord Peter Mandelson, is “just thrilled” at this “tremendous win for Keir Starmer”. He said: ...

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, ...