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Wales TUC Congress 2022 – a communist perspective
However much working-class advance may be improved by policy and legislative changes, it is only militant trade union action that will secure maximum benefits for working people, argues LAURA PICAND
The Welsh Communist Party calls for trade unions to deliver maximum support for the TUC Cost of Living national rally on Saturday June 18.

THE agenda for this year’s Wales TUC is very aptly titled “Unions Winning for Workers.” 

A union-hostile government at Westminster, mired in scandals, increasing inflation (the worst in Europe), war in Ukraine and the tipping point for global warming almost reached, point to a difficult future for working people. 

As far as Wales is concerned, the economic contest is important. Welsh weekly earnings remain the lowest of all the nations and regions of Britain, having fallen to 89 per cent of the UK in 2018. 

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