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By Dave Warren,  Treasurer, Swansea Trades Council Swansea Trades Council held an open conference on 26 January to discuss Swansea council’s budget proposals for 2022-23 and the medium-term plan for the next three years. As well as the trade union delegates, the meeting was attended by young people from Swansea Young Socialists and Swansea Youth Strike 4 Climate. Guest speaker ...

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 ...

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.

By Ross Saunders Cardiff Tory Councillor Kathryn Kelloway has sparked outraged by calling on social media for the tents of homeless people in the city to be “torn down”. Kelloway challenged Labour Council Leader Huw Thomas on Twitter to remove the tents for reasons of “safety”, “prosperity” and for “a better image for Cardiff”, sparing not a word for the impact on ...

A battle is raging inside and outside the Labour Party in Caerphilly county borough (mainly covering Islwyn and Caerphilly constituencies) against the cuts that the Labour-run council is inflicting on public services in the borough. In particular there has been outrage that the meals on wheels service is being effectively abolished while another quarter of a million pounds is being ...

By Dave Reid Islwyn Constituency Labour Party (CLP) has passed a motion calling on Labour-led Caerphilly Borough Council to pass a no-cuts budget. The motion from Maesycymmer ward calls for “all its serving Caerphilly Councillors to plan for a 2019/20 Council budget that will protect services and employment, not cut them.” The motion was passed shortly after a march of ...

By Alec Thraves Swansea’s Labour controlled council have passed a £28 million cuts budget for 2018/19 as well as voting through projected cuts of a further £70 million over the next three years. During the 10 minute session allowed for public questions Socialist Party members highlighted that these medium term financial plans included some departments having their budgets cut by ...

Swansea Socialist Party members had an enthusiastic response when we took part in a 200-strong meeting in Gowerton to oppose education cuts. The meeting at Gowerton Comprehensive on Thursday night was organised by the National Association of Head Teachers to campaign for fair funding for education in Wales. The Socialist Party leaflet calling on Swansea Labour Council to fight against ...

By Alec Thraves Swansea Socialist Party represented what the council leader called the ‘unofficial opposition’ in challenging another £22m cuts proposal for the 2018/19 budget at the council’s cabinet meeting last week. With no opposition councillors or trade union representatives present at the cabinet meeting it fell yet again on our shoulders to highlight the fact that there has already ...

By Lucy Davros Over 100 people attended a protest in the city centre against homelessness, which was called after a 32-year-old homeless woman tragically died in Alexandra Gardens on 25th November. Sadly, this needless loss of life is not so unsurprising given the decreasing temperatures around winter and the increasing number of people who are homeless – official figures suggest ...