For a Welsh Government that stands up for workers' rights

TUSC supports the trade unionists fighting for workers’ rights and for a new mass workers party where the trade unions play a central part.

Labour has significantly watered down the Employment Rights Act after lobbying by big business, so that workers in Wales still face some of the most repressive anti-union laws in the western world.

This means that employers will be free to continue the exploitation of their workers by using zero-hour contracts and fire and rehire.

Wales is already a low-wage economy with the value of wages dropping significantly through Tory austerity passed on by Labour in the Senedd and the cost-of-living crisis.

All the establishment parties including Plaid Cymru and Reform will try and make working-class people pay for the crisis of capitalism.

Socialist Senedd members will fight for...

• All Welsh government contracts and grants to be restricted to companies that respect ethical employment practices and health and safety regulations including trade union rights.

...and campaign for the Senedd Government to demand the Westminster Government enact the following:

• A £15 an hour minimum wage with no exceptions, for minimum wage to automatically increase linked to average earnings or inflation, whichever is higher.
• Employment rights from day one, not month six.
• All workers to have trade union rates of pay. All wages to increase at least in line with prices.
• Ban zero-hour contracts and an end to insecure working. Full-time work for all who want it.
• Immediate repeal of all anti-trade union legislation.