Tag Archives: Swansea

NHS workers across Wales and the UK were on the march today for a pay rise. There were protests in Cardiff, Swansea, Merthyr and Bridgend. Below Beth Webster a nurse at UHW hospital Cardiff explains the anger at the government’s refusal to increase pay. Cardiff On the march to the Senedd Over 500 angry nurses, NHS staff and supporters gathered ...

Swansea residents will be dipping into their pockets once more because of the failure of the council to fight for the resources need to run the city off the Tories in Westminster and the Welsh-led Labour Government in Cardiff.

By Gareth Bromhall Members of the Socialist Party attended the January 9th cabinet meeting of Swansea City council last week in what has become an annual event in Swansea as the only organised force in the city that have consistently challenged to council on cuts by putting forward a legal no cuts budget solution to the imposition of Tory austerity. ...

By Alec Thraves CWU members at Parcel force set up a picket line this morning outside their Swansea Depot in support of their local rep who is being threatened with disciplinary action and who has been forced away from his job for the past 21 weeks. CWU members frustration at the lack of progress to resolve this dispute blew up ...

A rally by far-right For Britain leader Anne Marie Waters, an openly racist islamophobe and political ally of Tommy Robinson, was held in Swansea on 27 April. A motley crew of 40-50 people gathered for a ‘national mobilisation’ within a tight police cordon to hear Waters’s hate speech, under the guise of a pro-Brexit protest. Some local leave voters expressed ...

By Gareth Bromhall Socialist Party members took part in the Swansea Trades Council lobby of the Swansea City Councils budget setting meeting on the 28th February, along side trade unionists from across the city. The council, a labour administration once again waved through tens of millions in cuts to jobs and services in the city, whilst praising themselves for a job well ...

Swansea Trades Council has issued a call to arms to lobby Swansea Council to step back from another £24 million cuts to services. It has called a lobby of the council on Thursday 28th February at 2.00 pm. (The council has brought forward its meeting from the normal 5.00 pm start to 3.00 pm in an apparent attempt to deter ...

By Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party If you want to sneak through £24 million of council cuts next year, call a Cabinet meeting at 10.00 in the morning when most residents are at work, waffle through the ten minutes allowed for public questions and then vote unanimously for the council officers’ latest round of brutal cuts! Within twenty minutes Swansea ...

By Gareth Bromhall (Swansea Trades Council) Representatives from the GMB Union, along with Swansea Trades Council and members of Swansea Socialist Party Branch gathered at the entrance of the Amazon Fulfilment Centre in Swansea, bright and early at 7am to catch the morning shift on Black Friday, Amazon’s biggest day of the year. 20 of us, with flags, banners and ...

By Alec Thraves Swansea’s Labour controlled council have passed a £28 million cuts budget for 2018/19 as well as voting through projected cuts of a further £70 million over the next three years. During the 10 minute session allowed for public questions Socialist Party members highlighted that these medium term financial plans included some departments having their budgets cut by ...