Trade Union

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) ...

By Dave Reid Over 1200 health workers in the NHS in Wales have signed a letter (below) appealing to the Welsh government to step in to provide the necessary resources to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic and end the scandalous situation in our hospitals where patients and NHS workers and their families are falling ill to the virus due only to ...

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 ...

By Ross Saunders Boris Johnson’s response to the new coronavirus epidemic has been one of the most inept of all the leaders of the capitalist world. That the Welsh government, which could have taken a sharply contrasting independent line, instead followed in his footsteps as he lost his balance, makes a farce out of a tragedy. Wales should immediately and ...

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 ...

a key demand is for the Welsh government and the health board to withdraw the South Wales Programme and support the permanent retention of A&E at the Royal Glam

Carmarthenshire Council Unison branch has again called on councillors in the Plaid-led council to set a legal no-cuts budget for 2020-21 and slammed the “sham consultation” which has given Carmarthenshire people the choice of cuts or more cuts. The union points out that the devastating effects of the cuts in the county – “The impact of the council … implementing ...