Tag Archives: austerity

By a local government member of Unison Cymru Councils facing a cliff edge It was two years ago that Northamptonshire Tory Council invoked a Section 114 notice- under this measure they were indicating they could only afford to spend money on  essential services – in other words they had run out of money and were in effect declaring themselves bankrupt. ...

By Alec Thraves 2020 has been a health, social and economic disaster for workers across Wales and is graphically outlined in a Senedd Research document earlier this summer. But more importantly is the living experience and the devastating impact Covid has had on almost every community, workplace and family in Wales, particularly on the poorest and most vulnerable sections of ...

By Mark Evans, Secretary Carmarthenshire County Unison (in a personal capacity) A report from the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) Finance Subgroup paints a bleak picture for the future of local government and the important services it provides in Wales (COVID-19 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE SURVEY FOR QUARTER TWO AND FUTURE BUDGET PRESSURES). The report includes a survey by the WLGA ...

By Dani Smith On Wednesday, members of the St Mellons community and Socialist Party Wales members gathered outside the Church of the Resurrection St Mellons to protest the eviction and subsequent closure of Little Fishes Nursery School. The nursery has served the community from the church premises for 30 years and is widely recognised as one of the only affordable ...

Carmarthenshire County Unison branch has spoken out at the failure of the Welsh government to provide PPE

By Ross Saunders Two storms in a week brought some of the worst floods in living memory to Wales and parts of England and Scotland, killing at least five people and damaging thousands of homes. Big business didn’t send the rain. But the distorted priorities of the profit-obsessed capitalist system are to blame for the misery that ordinary people must ...

Swansea residents will be dipping into their pockets once more because of the failure of the council to fight for the resources need to run the city off the Tories in Westminster and the Welsh-led Labour Government in Cardiff.

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 ...

By Gareth Bromhall Members of the Socialist Party attended the January 9th cabinet meeting of Swansea City council last week in what has become an annual event in Swansea as the only organised force in the city that have consistently challenged to council on cuts by putting forward a legal no cuts budget solution to the imposition of Tory austerity. ...

By Dave Reid The 2019 general election marks a significant but temporary defeat for working people in Wales. The Johnson government looks set to implement a series of reactionary measures against working people and the cuts to NHS and other public services will continue. Inevitably the right-wing capitalist media are baying for blood to not just force Corbyn out but ...