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Birmingham’s striking bin workers and supporters bring waste sites to a standstill
WELSH unions agreed today to launch a public campaign to remove profit from the social care system.
Unison Cymru’s motion noted that Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru had backed the idea of a national care service following Wales TUC’s call for it in 2021 — but cautioned that the Scottish experience showed the term could refer to a national commissioning service for private care providers, which would not address the crisis in social care.
“We have a profit problem,” Unison Cymru secretary Jess Turner told Congress. “Tens of thousands of women are trapped in in-work poverty, struggling to make ends meet despite working long and anti-social hours.
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
Durham Miners’ Association general secretary ALAN MARDGHUM speaks to Ben Chacko ahead of Gala Day 2025
