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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]

50 years of TUC Cymru: Wales Union Learning Fund 2024-05-25 [Wales TUC Cymru]

An appetite for workers’ power in Wales 2024-05-21 [MorningStar]

Tata Steel: Community members back strike action 2024-05-10 [BBC]

Tata steelworkers vote to take industrial action over job losses 2024-05-10 [The Guardian]

Tata’s insulting offers to workers are just adding insult to injury ahead of industrial action 2024-05-05 [Unite - the Union]

Tata Steel rejects union plan to save jobs and keep Port Talbot furnace open 2024-04-26 [The Guardian]

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]

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]