Tag Archives: Unite

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 ...

EE is making it very clear why we can’t leave it to the bosses to control our response to the corona virus crisis. Not content with dragging its call-centre workforce in to work in the midst of the pandemic (including sales and debt collection), EE is now demanding that many of its high-street shop workers travel back to their workplaces ...

a key demand is for the Welsh government and the health board to withdraw the South Wales Programme and support the permanent retention of A&E at the Royal Glam

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 Alex Wedlake, Unite Young Members national committee (personal capacity) Following a series of mass meetings on 12 June, Unite members at the Ford plant in Bridgend decided overwhelmingly to fight the closure of the engine factory. With over 80% of workers voting in favour of action, there is a huge mandate for the union leadership to launch a campaign ...

By Rob Williams (former Unite convenor at ex-Swansea Ford plant) After months if not years of rumours and speculation, which have shredded the nerves of workers and their families, Ford have finally announced the closure of the Bridgend Engine Plant after nearly 40 years of production. This is a catastrophe for these 1,700 workers, their families and communities and the ...

By Andrew Bromhall, Milford Haven Huge Oil Tankers could have to wait at sea due to a possible strike by the pilots who guide them through the Milford Haven Waterway. At present, the Pilot Teams who are members of Unite the Union and who provide navigational expertise to vessels in the Haven have implemented an overtime ban which is already impacting on the movement of ...

By Rob Williams,  Socialist Party national industrial organiser and former Visteon (ex-Ford) Unite convenor, Swansea Fordworkers in Bridgend and their families are trying to come to terms with the announcement that over 1000 workers will lose their jobs over the next two years, with the first 370 to go as early as this spring. This comes at the same time that thousands of ...

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 ...