Tag Archives: Unison

By Ross Saunders Campaigners in Wales are urging the Welsh Government to reconsider its reckless plan to re-open to all children on the 29th June.   Campaign group Parents for Safety First has called an online public meeting for 6pm on Wednesday 24th June (Zoom ID:854 4340 1884). The group gained 4000 supporters on its Facebook group in its first week and organised car-convoy ...

Council workers refute Welsh government claims that test and track is ready

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. ...

By Mark Evans (Branch Secretary Carmarthenshire County Unison and Local Government Service Group Executive writing in a personal capacity) An audible collective sigh of relief was heard from workers and the vast majority of the population in Wales aside from big business when the Labour Welsh Government (WG) announced it was diverging (slightly) from the UK Tory government in how ...

By Mark Evans Branch Secretary Carmarthenshire County Unison (in a personal capacity) Workplace report published  by the Labour Research department in its March 2020 edition published a two page article with the headline ‘Social Partnership approach is way forward in Wales’. It claimed that the devolved (Labour) Welsh Government working closely with the Wales TUC “has developed a social partnership ...

Carmarthenshire County Unison branch has spoken out at the failure of the Welsh government to provide PPE

By Mark Evans, branch secretary Carmarthenshire County Unison (personal capacity) On Tuesday 3rd March Carmarthenshire County Unison branch along with Socialist Party members and other anti-cuts campaigners lobbied Plaid-led Carmarthenshire County Council full council meeting (where the budget was being voted on) calling on councillors to make a stand and implement our branch’s no cuts budget. Plaid Cymru councillors voting for ...

Carmarthenshire Council Unison branch has again called on councillors in the Plaid-led council to set a legal no-cuts budget for 2020-21 and slammed the “sham consultation” which has given Carmarthenshire people the choice of cuts or more cuts. The union points out that the devastating effects of the cuts in the county – “The impact of the council … implementing ...

By a Carmarthenshire Council Unison member Plaid led Carmarthenshire County has backed down in the face of two days of determined industrial action. One of the placards produced by Carmarthenshire County Unison branch for the picket  lines summed it up when it said: “Dashing through the snow, With a 1,000k to go, Don’t you think it fitting, We are paid ...

By Sasha O’Neil – at the protest, 3 October 2019 Unison and GMB banners brightened the rain outside Caerphilly Council Offices on Thursday – and the air rang with chants – as waste management workers and their supporters demanded fair play for themselves and five unfairly sacked workmates. (See video.) The council has been using cameras – installed on waste ...