Wales

Welsh Labour election sees right defy members

In another sign of how the Labour right still has influence, the left has failed to win the deputy leader of the Welsh Labour Party.

Upbeat walkout against job cuts at Manchester Metropolitan University

Groups of pickets were out in force across Manchester Metropolitan University to begin a two-day strike on Tuesday.

Surgical strikers say low pay won’t cut it

The workers who disinfect and sterilise surgical instruments at three south Wales hospitals struck on Wednesday of last week.

The crime of Aberfan

A coal slide killed over a hundred people—most of them children—yet it could have been avoided. It was caused by bosses’ neglect and the complicity of some miners’ union leaders.

Welsh museum strike forces bosses to make concessions

21 June 2016
Bosses at National Museum Wales have given ground—but some strikers want to keep up the fight, reports Nick Clark

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Museum workers on all-out strike in Wales to decide on a new deal

14 June 2016
National Museum Wales bosses have retreated but workers could keep on fighting, argues Nick Clark

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Bosses stall on deal, but Wales museum workers on all-out strike remain solid

07 June 2016
PCS union members in Wales are building solidarity as talks are set for this week, writes Nick Clark

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Welsh strikers win support amid deadlock in Assembly

17 May 2016
Workers at the National Museum Wales entered the third week of an all-out strike this week as politicians wrangled over who would lead the Welsh government.

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Welsh museum strikers demand the politicians take action

11 May 2016
Striking museum workers in Wales rallied outside the Senedd – the Welsh Assembly building in Cardiff – today, Wednesday.

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Miners’ flying picket lifts Welsh museum strike

10 May 2016
National Museum Wales bosses threatened to call the police against striking workers in south Wales last week.

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Displaying resistance - why museum workers in Wales are on all-out strike

03 May 2016
Few would have pictured museum and gallery workers in the front line of struggle in Wales. But with an all-out strike beginning last week these low paid staff are exhibiting a new wave of an old tradition, reports Nick Clark

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