Trade Union

By a CWU member, postal worker Royal Mail workers in the Communication Workers Union, over 150,000 of us up and down the country, are gearing up for a ‘yes’ vote on our strike action ballot, which opens on 28 June. As soon as the announcement was made of a 2% pay offer followed by a further 3.5%, with strings attached ...

Most rail services ground to a halt across Wales as 50,000 rail and tube workers walked out across the UK against government plans to cut jobs and services and a failure to agree a pay rise that maintained the cost of living. At Cardiff Central station over 70 workers from all over the trade union movement gathered in support of ...

Defend the right to strike 50,000 rail and tube workers in RMT transport union are standing shoulder to shoulder in historic national strike action, joined by other union members in some areas. Rail workers kept going throughout the pandemic, making sure other key workers could get to work. The least they, and the rest of us, deserve is an inflation-proof ...

My experience as a first-time Wales TUC delegate By John Williams, delegate from Cardiff Trades Union Council Between 24-26 May, around 200 delegates attended the conference of Wales Trade Union Congress (TUC). I attended as a delegate from Cardiff Trades Council.  As a young hospitality worker, I was keen to see what the trade union leadership in Wales had to ...

Cardiff bin workers in Unite the Union have voted by 98% to strike against management bullying and the use of agencies. This massive vote on a 77% turnout follows years of bullying by management. The bin workers earned huge respect from the public all the way through the pandemic as they kept this vital service going – even at the ...

Save Jobs, Nationalise P&O Ferries! By Dave Reid P&O Ferries, owned by Dubai-based DP World have sacked 800 workers in a pre-recorded message on zoom. The bosses turned up with agency workers to replace them backed up by security guards ready to handcuff workers who refused to leave the ships. Workers responded by occupying some of the ferries and are ...

By Taryn Tarrant-Cornish The resounding mood of the speakers at the Cardiff People’s Budget echoed the opening words of the Trade’s Council’s Secretary, Dave Bartlett, who warned the city’s council; “We want it back.” Over 40 people participated in the Cardiff People’s Budget called by Cardiff Trade Union Council. Speaker after speaker spoke movingly about their personal experiences outlining the ...

By Dave Warren,  Treasurer, Swansea Trades Council Swansea Trades Council held an open conference on 26 January to discuss Swansea council’s budget proposals for 2022-23 and the medium-term plan for the next three years. As well as the trade union delegates, the meeting was attended by young people from Swansea Young Socialists and Swansea Youth Strike 4 Climate. Guest speaker ...

Winter gritters working for Carmarthenshire County council have won big concessions from the council who will now have to adhere to an agreement to pay decent shift allowances that they have been trying to cut back. Members of GMB, Unison and Unite have taken three nights of strike action and operated nine picket lines in a dispute caused by the ...

Pickets were out for a second day today at Carmarthenshire County council depots Nantglas, Crosshands, Cillefwr, Carmarthen and Llandovery in a dispute by gritting crews. Gritters at are taking 12 days of strike action in a dispute over the failure of the council to adhere to an agreement on standing down workers after being on call. Mark Evans, secretary of ...