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SSE/OVO threatens 300 jobs in Wales

By Rhys Davies Power company SSE is threatening to cut 2600 jobs, including 300 in Wales, after being taken over by OVO. The company, which became the UK’s second-biggest energy supplier after buying rival firm SSE last year, is using the pandemic to slash the workforce and drive up workloads for the rest while paying bumper dividends to its shareholders. ...

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Cardiff University workers to fight job cuts

By a Cardiff UCU member Staff at Cardiff University have been informed of plans to cut 380 posts over five years. This announcement comes while branches of the University and College Union (UCU) are balloting nationally over workload, casualisation, the gender pay gap and general levels of pay. UCU members at Cardiff University have responded to the job-cuts announcement by organising a simultaneous ballot ...

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ThyssenKrupp / Tata Steel Merger

Pensions, jobs and conditions cut but no guarantees for the future!  By Alec Thraves Whilst the signing of a ‘memorandum of understanding’ between Tata Steel and ThyssenKrupp was given a ‘cautious’ welcome by steel union leaders, there is still massive uncertainty over the future of the Port Talbot plant and others across the UK and Europe who will make up the ...

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The fight for a future at Ford, Bridgend

The warnings of the run down of the Bridgend plant by Ford workers have unfortunately proved correct. Ford has leaked documents indicating the run down of the plant over the next four years. By linking the closure to overtime payments the company is clearly trying to use the threat of closure to force through cuts in pay and conditions at ...

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Tata pension deal accepted

Tata steelworkers have reluctantly accepted a ‘gun to the head’ pension deal which will end their final salary pension scheme and see it being replaced by an inferior defined contribution pension scheme. Union leaders, Tata management, MPs, AMs and the Welsh government all repeated endlessly to the workforce: accept this deal or see the plant close. Union leaders have attempted ...

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