Welsh News

By Ben Golightly Almost one in three children in Wales live in poverty! Even before the Coronavirus pandemic, the EHRC estimated that UK Government tax and welfare reforms would push a further 50,000 children into poverty. This has happened on Welsh Labour’s watch. The Welsh Government’s recent Child Poverty Strategy sets out an action plan which boils down to little ...

By Dave Reid “Is this a picket line?” one spark going into the Cardiff NCMH Bouygues site asked. “Because if it is we won’t cross”. There was a great response from all workers going onto the site which also has an NG Baileys project on it. As well as sparks on the protest line there were ex-UCATT brickies, Unite regional ...

By Dave Reid Engineers working for BT’s Open Reach are taking another five days of strike action at four workplaces across South Wales against the imposed re-grading of their jobs. A newly aggressive management at BT are attempting to force the repayment project engineer (RPE) workforce to move to new management grades that would undermine their terms and conditions, put ...

By Mia Hollsing (Socialist Party Wales) and other socialist women About 150 women and men turned up to the vigil to express their anger at the death of Sarah Everard on the steps of the Senedd in Cardiff on Saturday despite the police ban on the events and having to walk through the gauntlet of police surrounding the building. There ...

By Dave Warren former DVLA PCS secretary The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) branch of PCS has voted for industrial action against management’s failure to provide a safe working environment. During the first lockdown only 250 essential staff out of the 5,000 strong workforce was required to physically go into the workplace, but since September over 2,000 workers have ...

By Dave Reid Following on from last week’s protest in Swansea, construction electricians in Unite the union, supported by Cardiff Trades Union Council, protested outside the Cardiff offices of construction giant, NG Bailey. They chanted “No de-skilling, no ESO!” at the company which is trying to force down wages and skill levels at the huge Hinkley Point nuclear power station ...

By Alec Thraves As part of the national campaign against the employers attempts at the de-skilling of construction electricians, Unite electricians were joined by Swansea Trades Council and Swansea Socialist Party members leafleting and discussing these attacks with dozens of workers entering the site. Obviously not all the construction workers who were going into the site were electricians but the ...

By Mariam Kamish For the second time in just over a month, a young man has died at the hands of South Wales police. Moyied Bashir’s family were asking for help for their son, who was suffering mental health issues, after being stabbed three weeks earlier. In a harrowing account, Mohamed Bashir, Moyied’s brother, has publicly described how the police ...

By Louise Smith On a freezing-cold Tuesday evening in February, over 100 people gathered outside Cardiff Bay police station. They were there to show solidarity with the friends and family of Mohamud Mohamed Hassan, who are demanding a thorough investigation into his death after being released from police custody last month. Mohamud was released without charge, his family report that ...

Republication of an article from October 23 2020. Train operations were transferred to state-owned Transport For Wales earlier this month. By Dave Reid The Wales and Border rail franchise will effectively be nationalised in February as franchise holding company Keolis Amey (KA) walks away from its contract. The collapse of ticket sales in the Covid crisis has led to huge ...