Tag Archives: GMB

Nationalisation NOT Devastation! By Alec Thraves (Swansea Socialist Party & Vice President of Swansea Trades Council) In the run up to Xmas, Steel workers and residents remain on the edge of an economic and social precipice yet again! Tactical differences on how to respond to Tata’s threat of a jobs slaughter have emerged between the steel unions. The Community union and GMB ...

By Rob Williams, Socialist Party Industrial Organiser Steelworkers from the Unite, GMB and Community trade unions marched down Whitehall to Parliament Square on Wednesday behind the #SaveOurSteel banner. Protesting together with them were striking South London outsourced NHS workers in the GMB on their own demonstration, with both groups of workers joining in with each other’s chants. Workers had travelled ...

The Welsh government have made new pay offers to NHS workers and school teachers. “Too little, too late” has been the overwhelming response from health and school workers. Welsh Ambulance Service workers and NEU members have voted decisively to reject the offer, and will all return to industrial action to force more money from the Welsh and UK governments. The ...

By Alec Thraves (Socialist Party Wales) Storm clouds are a common feature in this part of South Wales but there has been a permanent economic dark cloud over Port Talbot for several years because of the constant threat of the closure of the Tata Steel plant which employs around 4000 workers and is the beating heart of the town and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...