JAMIE - NOT HIS REAL NAME - WORKS IN A MEAT PROCESSING PLANT IN WALES. HE SPOKE TO SC COOK ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE WORKING AT THE FACTORY, LOW PAY AS AN AGENCY WORKER AND HOW IT HAS OPENED HIS EYES TO BOTH THE VALUE OF HIS LABOUR AND HIGH LEVELS…
SUNDAY SAW THE LAUNCH OF THE FIRST CARDIFF BRANCH OF THE COMMUNITY ORGANISATION ACORN, WHOSE MEMBERS CAMPAIGN AND TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT TENANTS’ RIGHTS. THE LAUNCH WAS FOLLOWED BY A DEMONSTRATION ON MONDAY MORNING AGAINST EVICTIONS AND HOMELESSNESS AS PART OF THE ORGANISATION’S NATIONWIDE DAY OF ACTION ACROSS SIXTEEN CITIES…
JAMIE WALLIS, MP FOR BRIDGEND, DEFENDS TOP TORY AIDE DOMINIC CUMMINGS WHO LEFT HIS LONDON HOME ON 31ST MARCH WHEN HIS WIFE HAD COVID-19 SYMPTOMS AND DROVE 260 MILES TO STAY WITH HIS PARENTS. WALLIS CLAIMS IN TWEET THAT CUMMINGS’ ACTIONS WERE “ENTIRELY CONSISTENT WITH UK GOVERNMENT ADVICE” AND SAYS…
COUPLE WHO OWN SPECSAVERS ARE WORTH £1.8BILLION AND LIVE IN GUERNSEY, WHERE THE TAX RATE FOR THE RICHEST IS LESS THAN HALF WHAT IT IS IN THE UK.
AROUND 20,000 SPECSAVERS WORKERS HAVE BEEN FURLOUGHED USING THE GOVERNMENT'S CORONAVIRUS JOB RETENTION SCHEME, WHERE 80% OF WAGES ARE PAID BY THE…
SHAZ MIAH IS FROM NEWPORT. HIS FAMILY RESTAURANT, INDIAN SUMMER, IS IN MONMOUTH AND HAS FED OVER 200 ELDERLY AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE DURING THE PANDEMIC, AND CONTINUES TO FEED KEY WORKERS EVERY DAY. F CLARKE TALKED TO SHAZ ABOUT HIS FAMILY BUSINESS, OBSERVING RAMADAN DURING LOCKDOWN, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF…
ON SUNDAY 10TH MAY, BORIS JOHNSON ANNOUNCED THAT PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND WOULD BRING BACK MORE CHILDREN ON 1ST JUNE. SINCE THEN, WORKERS IN THE NATIONAL EDUCATION UNION (NEU) HAVE LED A HUGE CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE TORIES EASING LOCK-DOWN IN EDUCATION, ARGUING THAT KEY SAFETY TESTS HAVE NOT BEEN…
THE WELSH GOVERNMENT AND FIRST MINISTER MARK DRAKEFORD HAVE GIVEN THE CLEAREST INDICATION YET THAT THEIR POST-COVID RECOVERY PLAN FOR WALES WILL RELY HEAVILY ON A PRO-BUSINESS, FREE MARKET APPROACH ROOTED FIRMLY IN THE ECONOMIC STATUS QUO. THIS IN-DEPTH REPORT WILL LOOK AT THE PEOPLE CHOSEN TO ADVISE ON WALES’…
IN A TELEVISED ADDRESS ON SUNDAY EVENING, AND WITH JUST 12 HOURS NOTICE, TORY PM BORIS JOHNSON GAVE THE GREEN-LIGHT FOR MANUFACTURING AND CONSTRUCTION BOSSES IN ENGLAND TO FORCE WORKERS BACK ON SHIFT FROM MONDAY, SPARKING A FURIOUS BACKLASH FROM UNIONS ABOUT SAFETY AND THE THREAT TO LIFE POSED BY…
Interview and photography by Veronika Merkova
I met Kostantinos during his shift, outside TGI Fridays, while he was waiting to pick up his delivery. He has been working as a delivery guy for 8 years now and he is married with two kids. I wonder how it is to…
ON INTERNATIONAL WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY, WE PUBLISH THE NAMES OF THE NINE WORKERS IN WALES WHO HAVE DIED OF COVID-19. THE FIGURE MAY BE HIGHER, AS NOT ALL NAMES ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
“REMEMBER THE DEAD, FIGHT FOR THE LIVING”
This is the slogan being adopted for International…