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Merthyr


3 November 2009

Reports from the postal workers' picket lines

Postal workers reported solid support for the strike across Southampton. At Bitterne the mood was particularly determined in the face of an ongoing dispute over drivers' hours that management want to reduce:...

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21 January 2009

Hoover workers march in protest at job losses

People on the streets of Merthyr applauded as over 200 Hoover workers marched from the factory to the town centre to protest at the threat to 337 jobs by Candy, the parent company, writes Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales.

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3 December 2008

Fighting the threatened closure of Hoover factory

South Wales: Over 300 jobs are at risk in South Wales, as management at the Hoover washing machine and tumble dryer factory in Merthyr Tydfil warned it could no longer produce "competitively priced" products, writes Vic Jenkins.

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19 March 2008

Anger and strength in the DWP workplaces

DWP members strike on 17 - 18 march 2008

DWP members strike on 17 - 18 march 2008

ON 17 and 18 March, members of the civil service union PCS in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were on strike for the second time against the imposition of a three year pay offer. Regional reports.

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31 May 2007

The Merthyr Rising 1831

The Merthyr Ruising of 1831

The Merthyr Ruising of 1831

Pages from working-class history: Insurrection of the men of iron A PROTEST march attacked by the military turns into a generalised insurrection. Armed workers take over the town, and besiege the authorities in their headquarters. Barricades are set up on the roads into town and a military 'relief force' is surrounded and disarmed.

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10 May 2007

Wales: Labour's worst result

THE WELSH Assembly election on 3 May produced Labour's worst-ever result in Wales...

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8 March 2007

No divide and rule - save these hospitals

SOCIALIST PARTY members have been campaigning in Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr against hospital cuts...

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12 February 2005

Incapacity benefit: New Labour hits the poor and vulnerable

THE GOVERNMENT'S own survey showed last year that only 0.3% of the Incapacity Benefit paid in the UK is fraudulently claimed...

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