Tag Archives: Coronavirus

By Ross Saunders Campaigners in Wales are urging the Welsh Government to reconsider its reckless plan to re-open to all children on the 29th June.   Campaign group Parents for Safety First has called an online public meeting for 6pm on Wednesday 24th June (Zoom ID:854 4340 1884). The group gained 4000 supporters on its Facebook group in its first week and organised car-convoy ...

No return to school until its safe

Council workers refute Welsh government claims that test and track is ready

One rule for Cummings, another for us - More Tory lies over PPE and testing

By Mark Evans (Branch Secretary Carmarthenshire County Unison and Local Government Service Group Executive writing in a personal capacity) An audible collective sigh of relief was heard from workers and the vast majority of the population in Wales aside from big business when the Labour Welsh Government (WG) announced it was diverging (slightly) from the UK Tory government in how ...

Taken from the latest issue of Socialism Today Despite the heroic efforts of healthworkers the NHS has been ill-prepared to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. But the roots of this lie in years of neo-liberal policies, including the marketisation drive in England of the New Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, argues JON DALE. Ten years of ConDem ...

By Dani Smith Jamie Jenkins, former head of health analysis at the Office for National Statistics, has this week highlighted stark inequalities in Covid-19 deaths in Wales. The ONS analysis shows 44.6 Covid-19 deaths for every 100,000 people in the poorest 20% of communities in Wales whereas in the wealthiest 20% of communities it was 23.3 deaths per 100,00 people, ...

Nationalise production to guarantee supplies of PPE By Beth Webster, ICU nurse at University Hospital Wales, Cardiff Health workers don’t want medals, and care workers don’t want badges. We want the equipment we need to be safe while we do our jobs, and we want a decent pay rise that means worrying about paying the bills isn’t distracting us from ...

Carmarthenshire Unison has written to Health and Social Care Minister, Vaughn Gething, to express the concern of council workers who are being put in danger by the negligence of governments who failed to prepare for the Coronavirus crisis and are not taking the necessary measures to protect them now. Health workers and care workers in the front line in the ...

By a Public and Commercial Services union shop steward I work for the Civil Service and am a member of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) of which I am a local and regional representative. Like many of my colleagues I was shocked and appalled at the Home Office’s decision to call workers at Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HMPO) ...