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By Beth Webster, UHW nurse, Cardiff West Socialist Party Boris Johnson has finally admitted that we are heading into a second Covid wave. NHS workers deserve a pay rise and need more resources to cope. At least 13 million people are now back under local lockdown, with an R rate as high as 1.4 in some areas. NHS and social ...

By Dave Reid Hundreds of people in Covid-hit Rhondda Cynon Taff were turned away from a local Serco-run testing centre after the UK government had imposed a quota of just 60 tests because of high demand in England that the private corporations contracted to process the tests could not cope with. This happened despite when Rhondda Cynon Taff is on ...

By Dave Reid The rise in coronavirus cases that has led an announcement of a partial lock-down in Caerphilly county has caused worry and concern for many people in the area. The Welsh government has imposed the lock-down as the number of confirmed cases of cases of Covid-19 has risen above 50 per 100,000. Welsh health minister, Vaughn Gething, said ...

Over 250 jobs are under threat at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff as a result of the Covid crisis. As performances have been cancelled there could be a jobs melt-down in the whole theatre and arts sector unless the government steps in. Under pressure, the UK government announced a £1.5 billion subsidy but that has not been used to ...

Transport For Wales (TFW) has stepped back from industrial action planned by the RMT rail union and agreed to talks that would bring “in-house” all train cleaners currently working for outsourced company Axis. Cleaners had voted to strike on July 2nd but suspended their action when TFW agreed to convene a working group with the RMT to discuss bringing all ...

A mass campaign by working class people in RCT has forced the Welsh government into a humiliating retreat

No return to school until its safe

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

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 ...