Tag Archives: cuts

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 ...

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 Gareth Bromhall Socialist Party members took part in the Swansea Trades Council lobby of the Swansea City Councils budget setting meeting on the 28th February, along side trade unionists from across the city. The council, a labour administration once again waved through tens of millions in cuts to jobs and services in the city, whilst praising themselves for a job well ...

Swansea Trades Council has issued a call to arms to lobby Swansea Council to step back from another £24 million cuts to services. It has called a lobby of the council on Thursday 28th February at 2.00 pm. (The council has brought forward its meeting from the normal 5.00 pm start to 3.00 pm in an apparent attempt to deter ...

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 ...

Unison has appealed to councillors on Carmarthenshire Council to step back from implementing cuts but instead to campaign for a no-cuts budget. The letter opens with the heading “No Merry Christmas for members whose jobs are under threat – No Happy New Year for the public whose services will be devastated. Set a legal no cuts budget, defend jobs, services ...

Caerphilly borough council agreed at its meeting on Thursday to set aside even more money to settle the employment of its ex-chief executive including £108,000 in wages to the disgraced boss – even as it plans to cut its Meals On Wheels service to some of its most vulnerable residents saving £160,000. A lively protest by anti-cuts campaigners dressed in ...

By Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party If you want to sneak through £24 million of council cuts next year, call a Cabinet meeting at 10.00 in the morning when most residents are at work, waffle through the ten minutes allowed for public questions and then vote unanimously for the council officers’ latest round of brutal cuts! Within twenty minutes Swansea ...