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By John Williams, Unite Wales Young Members’ Committee (personal capacity) Young workers and trade unionists joined a lively protest outside Starbucks in Cardiff. Members of Unite the Union and the Bakers Union and supporters have mobilised in over 50 cities and towns to protest in solidarity with strikers in the USA who are striking against low pay and poor working ...

By a Cardiff bar worker Working in the hospitality industry, has been described by some in the past as a form of ‘Stockholm syndrome’. We like our job, the people we meet and the service we provide, but why should we just accept the inevitable exploitation and insecurity’s we will face on shift? And it’s not like hospitality bosses haven’t ...

By John Williams (Bar worker Unite, Cardiff in a personal capacity) Hospitality has been one of the worst effected industries during the Covid pandemic. There were over 30,000 job losses at the beginning of the crisis. Many weren’t eligible for furlough. Hours were cut drastically and people were sent home early as demand plummeted. Then we had Boris Johnson and ...