Tag Archives: Welsh Labour

By Alec Thraves Wales TUC Congress delegate The 2024 biennial Wales TUC Congress, meeting in Llandudno on its 50th anniversary, will yet again be debating the continuing attacks on the wages, jobs and conditions of trade unionists across Wales, and the devastating impact these are having on working-class families and communities. The crisis in the public sector will be highlighted, ...

By Mark Evans (President Swansea Trades Union Council) An article in February’s Labour Research magazine, ‘How will new partnership law strengthen workers’ voice?’, highlights that some unions have hailed the new Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023 as “historic” and “momentous”. Wales Trades Union Congress (TUC) policy officer Nisreen Mansour said the new act “is a huge win” for ...

By Jonathan Golding (Cardiff East Socialist Party) On 29 February, members of Cardiff Socialist Party and Trades Council joined workers from the waste management department and members of Unite the Union to lobby the council cabinet for the reinstatement of Tom Watkins, a Unite rep of 15 years. Tom had served for 33 years at Cardiff Council in the street ...

By John Williams Even by Welsh Labour standards, the current Welsh Labour leadership election- that will decide the next First Minister of Wales has been uninspiring. Vaughan Gething has been in the news a lot recently, so most people in Wales know him by now, but it takes a while to remember the name of the other AM standing- Jeremy ...

By John Williams, Cardiff Socialist Party After eleven weeks of action in the autumn of 2023, Cardiff Council workers in Unite are striking again, against the national local government (NJC) pay offer. Strike action by refuse and recycling workers started on 28 December and was due to end on 25 January, but is now extended until 22 February. The council ...

What is the point of a Welsh Labour government if it merely passes on UK Tory cuts? By Dave Reid Happy New Year! – the Welsh government has put forward a devastating budget for public services in Wales for 2024. The figures are terrifying: £1.3 billion of cuts in real terms since 2021, even though Welsh Government ministers have said ...

By Ben Golightly, Cardiff East Socialist Party The Welsh Ambulance Service recently declared an ‘extraordinary incident’ in Swansea, with 16 ambulances simultaneously queuing outside A&E, one waiting 28 hours. It’s a shocking headline, but I found nothing extraordinary about it at all. A few weeks ago, my gran broke her leg in a fall, spent 23 hours waiting for an ...

By John Williams and Dave Reid Unite members at Cardiff council have started a two-week strike on 4 September which will be followed by a three week strike starting on 25 September unless the council agrees to an increase in pay. Council workers in Unite are also striking in Wrexham and will soon be followed by Gwynedd. However, there’s a ...

By John Williams (Cardiff East Socialist Party) A community campaign fought the privatisation of St David’s Hall earlier in the year, and opposed plans to close a Cardiff library and further library cuts. Unfortunately, the Labour council went ahead with privatisation. It’s now been revealed that the council agreed a secret anti-union deal with the new owners, when it privatised ...

By Mark Evans (Carmarthenshire County Unison Branch Secretary (personal capacity) Unison Local Government Service Group Executive personal capacity) The Welsh Labour government has threatened new round of cuts to Welsh public services, incredibly including to the NHS (already on its knees), citing a £900 million hole in Welsh public finances. The Socialist Party has highlighted how the Welsh Assembly Labour Government ...