By Alec Thraves Tata Steel bosses have declared the start of a legally obliged, 45-day formal consultation process which could culminate in the initial loss of 2,423 jobs across the UK, with 1,929 of those in Port Talbot, representing exactly half the workforce. Tata’s phoney war is over after TV Narendran, the global chief executive of Tata Steel and the ...
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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. ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »DWP relocation plans put staff at risk of redundancy in South Wales
Workers in areas with the highest unemployment in the country are under threat of losing their jobs from the government department that is meant to cut unemployment – the Department of Works and Pensions (DWP)! The DWP are portraying the plan as creating jobs in the valleys when in fact valleys workers will lose them and the DWP will lose ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Vote for action to save Bridgend Ford plant
Bridgend Ford workers will be voting in an industrial action ballot, when voting papers go out at the end of this week. They want answers. They know that the clock is ticking and the future of the plant is on the line. The time to act is now before it is too late. This struggle is one of the most ...
Read More »DWP announces office closures and job losses
Civil service union PCS has reacted with anger to the announcement that the Department of Works and Pensions (DWP) has announced that it intends to close four sites in Wales by March 2018. The Llanelli Service Centre will close causing the loss of 146 jobs in the town and the real threat of compulsory redundancies. Mark Evans, president of Llanelli ...
Read More »Bridgend Ford overtime stoppage in sourcing dispute
Bridgend Ford workers have sent a huge statement of intent to Ford by not being available for overtime. They are telling Ford: come to the table and commit to sourcing that makes the plant viable for all those who want to work in it, or there will be action. It is absolutely correct to tell Ford and the politicians in ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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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