Tag Archives: Llanelli

By Mark Evans Around 200 people marched on the demonstration in Llanelli on Saturday 7th of September to get the council to reverse its decision not to fund a new purpose-built school. For years, the council including the previous Plaid leader Emlyn Dole gave an undertaking to staff and pupils that a new school that would replace Heol Goffa which ...

By Mark Evans, Swansea and West Wales Socialist Party On 8 July, a protest was called in Llanelli by the far-right group Patriotic Alternative (PA), supposedly for ‘boots on the ground’. Only a handful of PA members turned up. Socialist Party members played a central role in the counter protest against PA, organised by Swansea Trades Council, alongside Carmarthenshire County Unison ...

West Wales Socialist Party members supported and participated in the Furnace Action Committee’s protest march against the Tory Governments’ ‘hostile environment’ strategy of inappropriately housing 241 asylum seekers into just 77 rooms at the Stradey Park Hotel in Furnace, a small residential area of Llanelli. The protest march was called in support of the 100+ workers, who have just been ...

By Mark Evans (Branch secretary, Carmarthenshire Unison) The rushed and secretive home office plan to house 207 asylum seekers in Stradey Park Hotel’s 77 rooms by July the 3rd without consultation with the local community and with Carmarthenshire County Council and Hywel Dda Health board and other public bodies only receiving the plans at the last minute has inevitably resulted ...

Postal deliveries in Llanelli ground to a halt on Wednesday 13 October when postal workers at Llanelli Delivery Office walked out to force Royal Mail to re-instate Gary Evans, who has been wrongfully dismissed. Postal workers in the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at Llanelli Delivery Office had voted 98.6% for strike action in defence of Gary. The picket line was ...

By Beth Webster, Welsh nurse Three major hospitals in West Wales could close under proposals by Hywel Dda University Health Board. Until now, Welsh Labour has denied there is a crisis in the Welsh NHS – despite reports similar to those in England of waits of over 12 hours for ambulances and patients dying in corridors. Management is considering various ...