Trade Union

By Dave Reid Vaughan Gething has resigned as first minister for Wales after an ongoing scandal that pre-dated his election as Welsh Labour leader in March. Gething had accepted a £200,000 donation to his leadership campaign from an environmental company that had been fined for multiple breaches of polluting offences and in which workers had been injured and killed on ...

By Dave Reid Workers at Valley Vets at four sites in Cardiff are taking two weeks strike action to demand fair pay for workers and fair fees for customers. The company is owned by Vet Partners that is worth £3 billion but bosses have offered just 1-1.5% pay increases. This is the first strike by workers in the private veterinary ...

By Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party and Swansea Trades Council As negotiations between Tata, the steel unions and the new Labour governmentcontinue, Tata has started the process of ‘seeking expressions of interest’ from thosesteelworkers considering whether to accept the re-confirmed enhanced voluntaryredundancy package.In a blatant attempt to impact on negotiations and to pressurise and bribe workers tosell steel jobs, Tata ...

By Alec Thraves Swansea Socialist Party and Swansea Trades Council Unite has suspended the all-out strike action it was due to start from Monday 8 July, in response to the proposed jobs slaughter by Tata Steel, after a meeting of its reps. This action has forced senior management back to the negotiating table. The fact that, until a few days ...

By Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party and Swansea Trades Council Update 15.45 July 1st This article was posted before Unite’s suspension of its all-out strike action that was due to start next Monday, which has forced talks with the company. We will post further updates. 09.30 July 1st: At the time of writing, Unite members in Port Talbot and Llanwern steelworks are ...

By Alec Thraves (Swansea Socialist Party and Swansea Trades Council) In a bold and decisive escalation of industrial action, Unite the union has announcedthe beginning of indefinite strike action at Tata’s Port Talbot and Llanwern plantsfrom July 8th.This move will be welcomed by many steelworkers, community campaigners and thewider trade union movement who are determined to retain primary steel production,secure ...

Ele Jane, Cardiff East Socialist Party Between 3 and 4 June, 19 protesters were arrested in Cardiff and Swansea in a brutal escalation of police response to the Palestine movement. A video shows eight police officers surrounding a disabled activist, and forcing his head down, before escorting him away. An emergency demonstration was called in response outside Cardiff Bay police ...

By Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party and Swansea Trades Council Tata’s threat to close down its UK steel operations must be met with united strike action from all of the steel unions! Over the weekend, Rajesh Nair, Tata steel CEO, has responded to Unite’s planned work to rule and overtime ban, due to start on June18th, with a threatening letter ...

By Alec Thraves, delegate from Swansea Trades Council With a rebranding its name, on the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Wales TradesUnion Congress (TUC), the 2024 biennial congress of ‘TUC Cymru’ in Llandudno was arefreshing and largely combative event, which took up the key issues facing the trade unionmovement in Wales.A big factor in this changed mood, compared ...

By Alec Thraves Wales TUC Congress delegate The 2024 biennial Wales TUC Congress, meeting in Llandudno on its 50th anniversary, will yet again be debating the continuing attacks on the wages, jobs and conditions of trade unionists across Wales, and the devastating impact these are having on working-class families and communities. The crisis in the public sector will be highlighted, ...