Tag Archives: Cardiff

By Dave Reid Panasonic workers at Pentwyn in Cardiff have won a significant victory against the multinational giant. Today the company caved and increased its pay offer from zero to 5.5% over two years plus a £300 bonus. The fourth day of strike action has been suspended while the offer is being put to the members. This represents yet another ...

About 100 workers at Panasonic in Cardiff have taken their second day of strike action for a decent pay rise. Panasonic has offered yet another pay freeze. The workers, members of the GMB, are demanding 5%, itself a stand-still pay rise merely keeping up with cost of inflation after years of pay freezes and below-inflation pay rises. Panasonic, which has ...

By Dave Reid and Gareth Bromhall Thousands across have marched to protest at the inaction of the world’s capitalist politicians to prevent catastrophic climate change. Well over 1000 marched from Cardiff City Hall to the Senedd. Socialist Party Wales and Socialist Students had large and lively contingents shouting “Our planet is not for sale” and “Socialist change, not climate change”. ...

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 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 ...

Hundreds of people have marched and rallied at Cardiff Bay police station to protest the death of Mohamud Muhammed Hassan shortly after being released from custody at the police station. Despite Covid restrictions inevitably inhibiting the turnouts, hundreds of working people from all over Cardiff have continued to assemble as carefully as possible at the police station, outraged at police brutality that ...

NHS workers across Wales and the UK were on the march today for a pay rise. There were protests in Cardiff, Swansea, Merthyr and Bridgend. Below Beth Webster a nurse at UHW hospital Cardiff explains the anger at the government’s refusal to increase pay. Cardiff On the march to the Senedd Over 500 angry nurses, NHS staff and supporters gathered ...

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 ...

By Dave Reid University workers, members of the University and College Union (UCU), at Cardiff University, Bangor University and University of Wales, have completed eight days of strike action as part of a national strike and prepared for further action next year if the employers do not negotiate to resolve the issues in dispute. The strike was an inspiring movement ...