Workers on the picket line. Photo via PCS DVLA Branch on Twitter.
DVLA workers in the PCS union began their second round of strikes yesterday, in a major battle over workplace safety.
Bosses at the site are refusing to allow more people to work from home, meaning around 2,000 staff…
Guto Harri, right, interviewing Boris Johnson on S4C
GUTO HARRI IS A NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF HYDRO INDUSTRIES, BASED NEAR LLANELLI. SINCE HARRI JOINED THE FIRM IN 2018, HYDRO HAS ENJOYED A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UK GOVERNMENT, AND LAST YEAR WON TWO MULTI-MILLION-POUND CONTRACTS WITH EGYPT & SAUDI ARABIA. HARRI,…
By Spencer Vignes, Freelance Sports Writer. Image, Newly installed padlocks in Victoria Park, Cardiff, Spencer Vignes
Last week, voice.wales broke the story that Cardiff Council had signed a seven-year deal with Tennis Wales, the Welsh arm of UK tennis governing body the Lawn Tennis Association, in effect privatising council…
According to research carried out by groups monitoring British military activity, armed forces’ visits to schools in Wales are acting as a “fig-leaf” for military recruitment.
This raises questions around the armed forces’ repeated claims that they do not use schools for recruitment purposes.
The research for the report took…
By Spencer Vignes, Freelance Sports Writer, A newly pin-locked tennis court, Victoria Park, Cardiff. Image, Spencer Vignes.
It began in Newcastle back in 2017. By the following year it had spread to Brighton and come 2018, it was the turn of Bristol. Now, in 2021, it’s arrived in Cardiff, with…
A PCS van driving up solidarity for the strike. Picture, Natasha Hirst
DVLA STRIKE GETS STRONG SUPPORT AS WORKERS DEMAND SAFETY AT WORK
2,500 WORKERS HAVE BEEN GOING INTO WORK DESPITE A RECORD 600 COVID CASES AND ONE DEATH
UNION SAYS SENIOR BOSSES WORK FROM HOME WHILST LOWEST PAID ARE…
OPEN LETTER SAYS THAT OUTDOOR PROTESTS DO NOT SPREAD COVID AND BANNINING THEM FACILITATES POLICE TARGETING OF CAMPAIGN GROUPS
MS BETHAN SAYED AMONG SIGNATORIES
LETTER COMES AS MORE ‘KILL THE BILL’ PROTESTS PLANNED IN WALES AGAINST AUTHORITARIAN POLICE AND CRIME BILL.
Community groups and trade unionists have hit out Welsh…
Unite, Britain’s largest trade union, is launching a new campaign to support thousands of Amazon workers in Wales who could be at risk of falling foul to the online shopping behemoth’s exploitative working practices.
As part of this plan for action, Unite has opened a confidential whistle-blowing hotline and will…
PCS Members On Strike Outside The Museum Of Wales, Cardiff, 2016. Picture via Jamie Insole, Facebook
WALES COULD SEE A WAVE OF STRIKES IN THE SPRING AS DISPUTES OVER SAFETY, FIRE-AND-REHIRE TACTICS AND SICKNESS PAY FOR KEY WORKERS INTENSIFY.
On Tuesday, the PCS union announced that DVLA workers in Morriston,…
By George Mills. Photo: HMP Berwyn, Wrexham
PRISONER SOLIDARITY NETWORK: “THIS ATTACK COMES LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AFTER RHODRI STEPPED FORWARD TO SPEAK PUBLICLY ABOUT DISCRIMINATION, RACISM, AND THE DENIAL OF LANGUAGE RIGHTS AT THE PRISON.”
PRISONER RHODRI AB EILIAN HAD SAID: “WE ARE BEING SEGREGATED HERE. PEOPLE GET IEP…