Wales Blog listing
'174' blogs listed
The need to protect writers due to the growth of artificial intelligence
AI is already impacting on creatives. As a union we care about the impact of the use of artificial intelligence - AI - on the creative sector in general terms, as well as on our members in particular. This is not something that will happen in the future – it is happening now. It is true to say that creatives in the media - reporting, performing, music and writing etc - are already affected by the rapid and uncontrolled growth of AI.
TUC Cymru Just Transition trip to Germany 2024
This Summer,5 Welsh young trade union activists travelled to Germany to learn about how German trade unions are mobilising young workers around the topic of Just Transition. Ryan, Hazel and Tomos tell us about their experiences.
TUC Cymru Young Activists are inspired by trade unions in Norway
This summer three young workers from Wales travelled to Norway to take part in the LO Norway’s summer patrol. On the patrol young workers visit workplaces and talk to other young workers. They run a survey to map workplace issues and breaches, and find out what young workers know about their rights. Over the past year TUC Cymru has been supporting young workers to create a similar patrol model in Wales called Newid!
Young Welsh delegates James and Shannon tell us what they learnt during their week in Norway this summer.
TUC Cymru at the Rhondda Cynon Taf National Eisteddfod 2024
TUC Cymru’s President, Sian Gale, summarises our three events at the National Eisteddfod on AI, sexual harassment and Welsh language rights.
Wales Union Learning Fund helps probation officers learn about gambling-related harms
Working in partnership with the probation service and NAPO trade union, the Wales Union Learning Fund has funded a pilot for probation workers on Gambling Related Crime, and how to support service users who are problem gamblers.
50 years of TUC Cymru: 50 years of changes from devolution to diversity
As trade unionists gather in Llandudno for TUC Cymru Congress 2024 Shavanah Taj reflects on the last two, and 50, years of our movement.
TUC Cymru 50: Pride and the miners’ strike
In the 2014 award-winning film Pride, Dai Donovan is the warm, good-humoured Welsh miner who meets Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) in London and then, back home in Wales, hosts members of the group on his living-room floor. He’s undoubtedly one of the heroes of the film.
50 years of TUC Cymru: Campaigning for equality puts the menopause on the map
How the menopause became one of TUC Cymru's biggest ever workplace equality campaigns.
50 years of TUC Cymru: Wales Union Learning Fund
For 25 years workers in Wales have been able to access training and learning in their workplace thanks to a Welsh Government funded programme called WULF. Find out how his union and Wales Union Learning Fund helped Mark keep his job, and change his life.
50 years of TUC Cymru: A guiding light for Welsh devolution
50 years ago, the union movement in Wales gathered in Aberystwyth to enact a plan that had been years in the making. The outcome of this meeting would reshape the trade union movement in the UK, and be a guiding light for the path of Wales as a nation.
International Workers' Memorial Day: why we remember the dead and fight for the living
This week, workers across Wales and the world will be remembering those who lost their lives due to work
The Welsh Advantage: supporting trade unions on their Welsh language journey
Wales TUC is committed to improving our own Welsh language offering to trade union members. Now we’re starting to support trade unions on their own Welsh language journeys.
Unions should lead the way on devolution
"I’m very pleased to be able to contribute to the discussion prompted by the Devolution and Work Commission report on behalf of PCS, a union with a longstanding commitment to democratic devolution; our main predecessor unions campaigned for an Assembly in the 1997 referendum and we also backed the ‘yes’ campaign in the 2011 referendum on primary law-making powers."
(Darren Williams, PCS National Officer for Wales)
Why do we keep working for free?
Today is Work Your Proper Hours Day – a day the TUC created two decades ago to draw attention to the huge problem of unpaid overtime.
A View from Down Under: Australia's Push on Workers' Rights
In a guest blog post Gareth Hathway details how Australia’s unions and its Labor Government are driving forward fair work by shutting down loopholes in work regulations.
Workers at Welsh ports and airports could lose the right to strike
Hundreds of workers in Wales, working in ports and airports could effectively lose their right to strike, thanks to harsh new regulations introduced by the UK government.
Newid! A programme for young trade unionists launches in Wales
When young trade unionists interviewed young workers in hospitality and retail in Cardiff and Merthyr Tydfil the results were eye-opening.
Fear, optimism and determination: trade unionists respond to artificial intelligence in myriad ways
More and more, artificial intelligence is being used to manage workers and assist with other tasks in workplaces across Wales. But what are the implications? Wales TUC, Connected by Data and Dr Juan Grigera have been speaking with trade unionists to find out about their experiences.
Future of Devolution and Work in Wales Report: Home Truths and Next Steps
Wales TUC General Secretary Shavanah Taj responds to the publication of the Future of Devolution and Work in Wales report.
Wales TUC Black Activist Development Programme is a leadership programme like no other
Wales TUC’s Black Activist Development Programme was launched in March 2023. Tansaim Hussain-Gul is one of 9 participants on the programme and she’s been telling me all about her experiences so far and how this programme is different from other leadership programmes she’s been part of.
How AI is using creatives' work, voices and images
How AI is using creatives' work, voices and images
Poor workplace democracy can hinder innovation and health and safety, union reps say
Poor workplace democracy can hinder innovation and health and safety, union reps say
Dismantling my language barrier through workplace learning
As a child I always felt that the Welsh language was something ‘other’, something different and removed from my life. But recently I’ve realised how much it’s influenced my life and how I’ve always been surrounded by the language, even when I didn’t notice it.
How workers at a further education college are taking the initiative on AI deployment
How workers at a further education college are taking the initiative on AI deployment
Young workers from Wales take on Norwegian Summer Patrol
Young workers from Wales take on Norwegian Summer Patrol
Artificial intelligence is cleverer than you, workers told
New technology is being forced on workers without consent. But trade union members are determined to resist the negative aspects of artificial intelligence.
Investigating how AI is understood and impacting Welsh workers and trade unionists
Wales TUC are looking into how AI is affecting workers across different sectors, and how trade unionists are managing the increasing roll out of data-driven technologies. Is tech threatening your job or terms and conditions?
