By Mark Evans, Retired Members Branch Secretary Carmarthenshire County Unison (personal capacity) Members gave blood,sweat and years to the council pay their pension For approximately the first ten years I was branch secretary of Carmarthenshire County Unison local government branch with around 4,000 members I cannot recall the branch dealing with a case of a member being refused ill-health retirement ...
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By Mark Evans (Branch secretary, Carmarthenshire Unison) The rushed and secretive home office plan to house 207 asylum seekers in Stradey Park Hotel’s 77 rooms by July the 3rd without consultation with the local community and with Carmarthenshire County Council and Hywel Dda Health board and other public bodies only receiving the plans at the last minute has inevitably resulted ...
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Peniel Care Home in Carmarthenshire has declared that it is going into liquidation leaving residents and care workers high and dry. Carmarthenshire Unison branch has issued this statement: “Our members and other staff working at Peniel Care Home have been informed at short notice that the care home, where in some cases they have worked for many years, is to ...
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By a Cymru/Wales Unison Local Government member Many trade unions have been and will be taking industrial action in the near future, however based on the outcome of the pay consultation ballot announced this week it does not appear likely that Unison Local Government Workers will be joining them on masse this year. The vote in Wales was 66% to ...
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Winter gritters working for Carmarthenshire County council have won big concessions from the council who will now have to adhere to an agreement to pay decent shift allowances that they have been trying to cut back. Members of GMB, Unison and Unite have taken three nights of strike action and operated nine picket lines in a dispute caused by the ...
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Pickets were out for a second day today at Carmarthenshire County council depots Nantglas, Crosshands, Cillefwr, Carmarthen and Llandovery in a dispute by gritting crews. Gritters at are taking 12 days of strike action in a dispute over the failure of the council to adhere to an agreement on standing down workers after being on call. Mark Evans, secretary of ...
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Carmarthenshire Unison’s campaign for a Trade Union Recognition Agreement (TURA) with Cwm Environmental (carried on this website here) continues after the summer break. On Thursday 9th September Unison and GMB members supported by Socialist Party and Swansea Trades Council protested outside County Hall calling on the council that wholly owns Cwm Environmental to give agree to a TURA. Mark Evans, ...
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Carmarthenshire Unison, GMB and Unite has appealed for solidarity to force Plaid Cymru-led Carmarthenshire county council to instruct Cwm Environmental, the waste disposal company wholly owned by the council, to agree to a trade union recognition agreement (TURA). The Carmarthenshire council unions are appealing for support for their online petition. This is their appeal letter: “Unison, GMB and Unite, the ...
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Belatedly the Welsh government has announced the closures of secondary schools in Wales next week, but not of primary schools – yet. This was a last minute reaction to the rising cases in Welsh schools and the fact that large numbers of pupils and teachers were indicating that they would in effect boycott the schools any way so they could ...
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Council workers refute Welsh government claims that test and track is ready
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