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Tata protests: Steelworkers vote to strike over job losses 2024-04-12 [Business Standard ]

Tata Steel workers vote for industrial action 2024-04-12 [BBC]

Steelworkers at the UK's largest production plant vote to strike over job losses 2024-04-12 [ABC News]

NHS doctors' strike called off in Wales for government talks 2024-04-10 [Skt News]

NASUWT demands a summit to protect teachers and pupils from violence in Wales 2024-04-02 [Morning Star]

Thousands of junior doctors in Wales begin four-day strike 2024-03-25 [Morning Star]

'Fundamentally flawed’: Welsh Government hits back at ‘minimum service levels’ 2024-03-20 [FBU]

Council workers fighting for future of jobs in Merthyr 2024-03-19 [UNISON]

Unions condemn Tata Steel decision to shut Port Talbot coke ovens early 2024-03-19 [The Guardian]

Firefighters take campaign for annual health checks to the Senedd 2024-03-13 [Morning Star]

Trade unionists welcome proposed Bill to increase the numbers of women in the Senedd 2024-03-13 [The Morning Star]

New learning opportunities website for Wales 2024-03-07 [TUC]

The pioneering Swansea women remembered across the city 2024-03-05 [The Herald]

Fears lives are in danger due to firefighter shortage 2024-02-29 [BBC]

Health visitors in Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board to take historic industrial action over unsustainable workloads 2024-02-21 [Unite]

Tata Steel workers protest over proposed job losses 2024-02-18 [BBC]

Tata Steel workers to vote on strikes amid job peril 2024-02-17 [BBC]

GMB Backs Vaughan Gething 2024-02-10 [GMB]

Welsh union urges government action to mitigate AI inequality 2024-02-02 [Computing]

Long running Cardiff bin strike to extend into February 2024-01-12 [Unite the Union]

Junior doctor strike: Many operations cancelled 2024-01-12 [BBC]

Teachers strike over being abused in class by pupils 2024-01-10 [BBC]

NHS Wales: Up to a third of staff absence stress-related 2023-12-30 [BBC]

Cardiff bin strikes to go ahead to stop bullying culture within council 2023-12-15 [Unite the union]

Teaching unions condemn Welsh government's proposed cut to summer break 2023-11-22 [Morning Star]

Campaigners and trade unionists to stage modern-day hunger march 2023-11-15 [Morning Star]

Tata Steel: Hundreds of workers protest as job cuts loom 2023-11-12 [BBC]

Pizza Hut staff sacked after being sexually harassed 2023-11-09 [BBC]

Striking Welsh farm feed workers win 20 per cent pay rise 2023-11-07 [GMB]

NEU Cymru members at Caldicot Comprehensive to take strike action over school’s inability to tackle student behaviour 2023-10-25 [NEU]

Support for trade unions rises as Welsh workers fear for their jobs 2023-10-17 [Nation Cymru]

Wales TUC welcome Welsh Government intervention on Strike Bill 2023-09-28 [TUC]

Tata jobs fears remain despite funding for Port Talbot steelworks 2023-09-17 [BBC]

Almost 200 workers could strike at Dow Silicones Barry 2023-09-07 [South Wales Argus]

Council strikes: Cardiff and Wrexham bin collections could be hit 2023-09-06 [BBC]

Care firm robs workers of employment rights and puts them on zero hours contracts 2023-07-22 [Nation.Cymru]

Union Pickets Cardiff Glee Club & Says Member Was Demoted For Organising 2023-07-14 [Voice.Wales]

Care worker pay rises only possible with support of union, workers say 2023-06-23 [The Morning Star]

Tyrone O’Sullivan: Towering Welsh Miner & Fighter For The Working Class 2023-06-23 [Voice.Wales]

Unions welcome Welsh government's action plan for LGBTQ+ people in the workplace 2023-06-19 [Morning Star]

Wales TUC launches action on sexual harassment in the workplace 2023-03-22 [TUC]

Teachers at Swansea school take strike action over inadequate management 2023-03-22 [NASUWT]

Ambulance strikes: Wales walkout suspended, says Unite 2023-03-09 [BBC]

Where would we be without Trade Union women? 2023-03-08 [TUC]

Strikes: Boost union sign-up in private sector - report 2023-03-05 [BBC]

Welsh NHS: More strikes threaten as nurses reject offer 2023-03-01 [BBC]

Nurses could announce further strikes after rejecting new pay offer 2023-02-28 [Belfast Telegraph]

Unite calls two further days of strike action in Welsh Ambulance 2023-02-22 [Unite the union]

2 Sisters Failure to engage with UK and Welsh Governments over closure plans branded 'disgraceful' by Unite 2023-02-19 [Unite the union]

Unite ambulance members overwhelmingly reject Welsh govt pay offer 2023-02-15 [Unite the union]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

6-04-1912 After 37 days, Britain's first national coalmining strike ends. It results in the passage of the Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act. [more]

10-04-1984 The House of Commons meets for an emergency debate on the role of police in the miners strike, [more]

15-04-1856 Tom Mann, British syndicalist and a leader of the dock strikes in 1889 and 1911, is born [more]

23-04-1914 First publication of the classic socialist novel 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' [more]