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Dramatic escalation in strikes at First Cymru as drivers furious at stalled pay talks 2025-11-10 [Unite the union]

First Cymru strikes to continue as workers reject latest pay offer 2025-10-29 [Unite]

TUC Cymru marks Black History Month with call to turn commitments into action 2025-10-25 [TUC]

Statement on the Covid inquiry module on children and young people 2025-10-24 [TUC]

Stress is the biggest hazard for workers in Wales, TUC research finds 2025-10-20 [Morning Star]

Bus chaos to hit Wales as First Cymru staff take strike action over pay 2025-10-16 [Unite]

Trade unions take demands to Plaid Cymru conference 2025-10-13 [Morning Star]

Sexual harassment ‘epidemic’ at Cardiff council 2025-10-11 [Nation Cymru]

Swansea health workers want strike ballot after deal pulled at 11th hour 2025-10-02 [UNISON]

Underpaid hospital workers 'betrayed' as health board pulls out of pay deal 'without explanation' 2025-10-02 [Wales Online]

Union members should take a lead in exposing misinformation spread by Reform UK, says head of TUC Cymru 2025-09-24 [Nation Cymru]

Teachers take strike action over bullying allegations at Flintshire school 2025-09-10 [Morning Star]

Cardiff Bus strike off as Unite members accept new deal on pay and conditions 2025-08-30 [Unite]

Bin collection strikes over reduced pay called off 2025-08-28 [BBC]

TUC Cymru sees golden opportunity for a “step change” in UK approach to AI as majority of Welsh public are concerned over jobs 2025-08-27 [TUC]

Wrexham Council urged to keep talking to bin workers over strike action 2025-08-24 [The Herald]

New bin workers’ strike looms over pay and conditions 2025-08-09 [The Star]

Bin collection strikes as workers face reduced pay 2025-08-09 [BBC]

Trade unionists hold public meeting with Mark Drakeford at the Eisteddfod 2025-08-07 [Morning Star]

TUC Cymru has launched ‘Twf – the Welsh language at work Charter’ 2025-08-05 [TUC]

TUC Cymru finds almost half of workers in Wales have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace 2025-07-25 [TUC]

Half of all women and two in five men in Wales have experienced sexual harassment at work. This has to stop 2025-07-17 [TUC Cymru]

Almost Half of Workers in Wales Experience Sexual Harassment in the Workplace 2025-07-17 [Business News Wales]

Some school staff in Wales earn less than minimum wage 2025-07-14 [Morning Star]

TUC Cymru welcomes plans for worker-led transition to AI 2025-07-02 [TUC]

TUC Cymru - Industrial Strategy marks a pivotal moment for Wales 2025-06-25 [TUC]

Ex-trade union leader George Wright dies aged 89 2025-06-14 [BBC]

Ex-2 Sisters workers sue chicken plant over Covid outbreak 2025-06-06 [BBC]

TUC Cymru Celebrates Success of Second Black Activist Development Programme 2025-04-02 [TUC]

Teaching union warns against increasing levels of violence against staff in Wales 2025-03-24 [Morning Star]

International Women’s Day – remembering Minnie Pallister 2025-03-09 [Nation.Cymru]

Disability employment gap highest in Wales, Senedd committee warns 2025-03-06 [Morning Star]

Most Welsh headteachers abused by parents in past year, survey finds 2025-03-04 [Morning star]

Voters in Wales overwhelmingly back Government’s flagship workers’ rights legislation 2025-02-13 [TUC]

Heart Unions Week marked in Senedd as Morgan champions unions at FMQs 2025-02-12 [Morning Star]

Land Registry workers vote for strike action after being ordered back into the office 2024-12-27 [nation.cymru]

Rise in firefighter attacks being filmed - union 2024-11-05 [BBC]

Disabled people’s experiences of ‘horrific’ employment practices are leaving them too scared to re-enter the Labour market, a committee hears 2024-10-01 [Morning Star]

Workplace training fund the Tories axed in England is helping tens of thousands in Wales 2024-09-17 [Morning Star]

Steel workers to vote over redundancy terms 2024-09-09 [BBC]

Vets extend strike in first industrial action to hit Britain’s pet-care sector 2024-08-18 [The Guardian]

Trade unionists discuss the dangers of Artificial Intelligence at the Eisteddfod 2024-08-06 [Morning Star]

Union calls Tata jobs talks extremely positive 2024-07-11 [BBC]

Tata must step back from 'irreversible' closure 2024-07-04 [GMB]

Union calls off Port Talbot steel workers' strike 2024-07-02 [BBC]

Tata workers call first strikes in 40 years to stop steel destruction 2024-06-21 [Unite]

Tata steelworkers rally ahead of industrial action 2024-06-18 [BBC]

TUC Cymru 50: Pride and the miners’ strike 2024-06-16 [Wales TUC Cymru]

50 years of TUC Cymru: Campaigning for equality puts the menopause on the map 2024-06-16 [Wales TUC Cymru]

Union prepares to escalate action at Tata Steel 2024-06-07 [Personnell Today]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-11-1976 Union of Postal Workers refuses to handle any mail for Grunwick, as the strike at the company continues. [more]

14-11-1913 Sympathy action breaks out in some British ports, like Liverpool, in support of workers in Dublin, but fails to spread. [more]

22-11-1900 2,800 workers at the Penrhyn quarry in Snowdonia, Wales, walk off the job over pay and union recognition. The strike last a staggering three years, one of the longest industrial disputes in British history. [more]

30-11-2011 Millions of public sector workers join the biggest single strike day since 1926, against the government's pension reforms. [more]