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18 February 2010
Wales Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
"Milford Haven ruling against these workers show why we are standing in the election": A new electoral alliance is standing candidates in the forthcoming general election. In Wales, two prominent trade unionists and socialist campaigners are amongst the candidates. Rob Williams, reinstated...
18 February 2010
Youth Fight for Jobs protest in Wales
Campaigners against youth unemployment from all over Wales converged on the Welsh Assembly on Wednesday to highlight the scourge of youth unemployment in Wales...
Campaigners against youth unemployment from all over Wales converged on the Welsh Assembly on Wednesday to highlight the scourge of youth unemployment in Wales. , photo Sarah Mayo
17 February 2010
Wales: New challenges for socialists
Socialist Party Wales recently held a very successful conference in Swansea that discussed future developments in Wales...
Bosch
19 January 2010
Defend jobs, nationalise Bosch
After months of 'warnings', Bosch have announced that they will close their car components plant in Miskin, south Wales, in 18 months' time - and move production to Hungary, writes Mariam Kamish.
19 January 2010
Defend Jobs: Nationalise Bosch
After all the talking, Bosch are closing the plant taking the jobs of 900 workers and their families. Yet again, a multi-national company are moving out of Wales and the UK after years of profit-making at the workforce's expense and millions of Welsh taxpayers' pounds to make even more profit in the low wage economy of Eastern Europe.
13 January 2010
Signal workers, members of RMT, have been involved in two weeks of strike action over the imposition of new working conditions...
South wales RMT signal workers on strike, photo Socialist Party Wales
6 January 2010
South Wales signal workers on strike
RMT signal workers are striking for a second six-day period in South Wales and the Marches in protest at attempts by management to ignore negotiated agreements, writes Ross Saunders.
18 December 2009
Striking Newport signals workers
Striking signals workers were out in force today at the picket outside the Newport panel on day three of the six day strike against management imposing new rosters...
13 November 2009
Anti-fascists tactics - What happened in Newport?
ON 24 October, Newport Communities Against Racism (NCAR) organised a rally of 600 local people against the far-right English/Welsh Defence League (E/WDL) that shut the League out of Newport...
28 October 2009
Far right shut out of Newport by mass protest
"WALES IS now an E/WDL-free zone" declared Socialist Party member and Unite convenor Rob Williams as over 600 people defied the attempt of the English/Welsh Defence League to spread their racist poison in Newport...
28 October 2009
Feature: ON 4 November 1839, 170 years ago, the 'Chartist Rising' in Newport, south Wales, ended in bloodshed. DAVE REID explains the background to one of the first workers' insurrections in history.
7 October 2009
North Wales shop stewards network
On 29 September, trade union reps and activists from across North Wales gathered in Wrexham to found a North Wales Shop Stewards Network, writes Iain Dalton, Bangor.
9 September 2009
Inaugural meeting to establish a North Wales branch of the National Shop Stewards Network
National Shop Stewards Network - North Wales
7.30pm Tuesday 29 September 2009
The Railway Club, Wrexham
8 July 2009
South West Wales Media: Fight for jobs, defend conditions
Union members at South West Wales Media - the parent company of the Evening Post, Llanelli Star and Carmarthen Journal newspapers - are considering taking action in response to a management restructuring plan that will see jobs axed, workload increased by 25%, and shift times for some staff substant, writes An NUJ member.
Rob Williams addresses Linamar workers at a rally in support of him, photo Sarah Mayo
17 June 2009
Victory at Linamar! Rob Williams reinstated
ROB WILLIAMS, the Unite trade union convenor at the Linamar car components factory in Swansea, Wales, has won a stunning victory in his fight for reinstatement...
17 June 2009
Billy Bragg's Miners' Strike Tour
UNDER THE South Wales area National Union of Mineworkers' banner with the words "Forward to a Socialist Britain and World Peace", singer Billy Bragg treated us to a great concert in Caernarfon on 11 June, writes Jan Underwood, Bangor Socialist Party.
Workers strike at South Hook construction site near Milford Haven, Wales , photo Dave Reid
27 May 2009
Construction workers: battle won but war not over
Construction workers at the South Hook LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) terminal construction site near Milford Haven in South Wales have won a big victory over employers by taking unofficial action in defiance of anti-union laws, writes Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales.
27 May 2009
Wales TUC conference - no good news for New Labour
The Wales TUC annual conference, from 19- 21 May demonstrated, as in previous years, the failure of New Labour in government to win the support of ordinary trade unionists across Wales, writes Andrew Price, delegate, Cardiff trades council.
Lobby of Unite London headquarters over the sacking of Rob Williams, Linamar convenor, photo Alison Hill
20 May 2009
Defending trade union rights: On 13 May, Swansea trades council and the Linamar shop stewards' committee, held a marvellous meeting in support of sacked Linamar convenor Rob Williams, writes Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales.
20 May 2009
Welsh-speaking worker bullied by boss
The front page of the North Wales Daily Post on May Day splashed a story of a worker at the Holyhead Morrisons store who had felt compelled to quit his job after being told not to speak Welsh, a Bangor Socialist Party member writes.
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