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After this year’s 2% pay cap for civil servants, news that more and more of them are skipping meals and resorting to foodbanks, it is clear it is time for a reformed pay bargaining process for the Civil Service. The civil service employs…
The news that Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members in Wales have rejected the Welsh government's pay offer makes clear that we are in a new phase of the public sector pay dispute in Wales – with lessons for the Welsh government and for…
We are deep in a cost-of-living emergency 12 years in the making, an emergency that is about to be made even worse by this Conservative government. Public sector pay has been eroded in real terms for more than a decade through this…
Last Thursday's local elections proved once again the strong connection between Welsh Labour and Welsh voters. The party swept aside a Conservative Party in disarray and held Plaid Cymru at bay. Welsh Labour gained 66 councillors and took…
As I write, it has been two years since I was elected to the House of Commons as the MP for my home community of Cynon Valley. I knew before I arrived that Westminster was a bubble, divorced from the real world, but I was not prepared for…
Nestled between the perhaps better-known South Wales constituencies of Merthyr and Rhondda lies my constituency of Cynon Valley, 'the Queen of the Valleys'. It is one of the reasons Wales is known as the 'Land of Song'. This once rural area…
This year marks the 21st anniversary of the establishment of the National Assembly for Wales, now the Senedd. Throughout this time, Wales has had a Labour-led government. The slogan "clear red water", first used by Rhodri Morgan – First…
