POWERS FOR PARENTS AND CARERS
Jobs that do not make a profit – such as caring for family members — are not valued as they should be in our society. As the pandemic has shown, this is also true of essential workers in the public and private sectors. We should not be surprised: capitalism is...
ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL POWERS
Unemployment fightback! In Wales, we know as much as anyone how mass unemployment devastates lives and local communities. It produces anxiety and fear, economic distress, family disruption, debt, poverty, malnutrition and homelessness. People are demoralisation as they lose their confidence and dignity. Trust and solidarity between workmates is eroded as...
FINANCIAL POWERS
The Welsh Parliament needs the powers to raise funds and invest in local and regional economies. Too many of our communities have suffered decades of neglect. This cannot continue. The Senedd and local authorities must have greater freedom from central government and Whitehall to raise funds from the low-interest Public...
POWER AT WORK
True democracy extends beyond the ballot box and concerns the power that working people desire over their everyday lives. The positive measures in the Trade Union (Wales) Act 2017 show how the Senedd can legislate to improve the rights of workers. But we still don’t have the power in Wales...
POWER FOR WALES
Now we have post-Brexit opportunities although determination of LibDems and Greens (and many on Welsh Labour) to defend EU policies and reverse Brexit means these are not being fought for. As a direct result of Brexit, at least 70 new decision-making powers are due to come to the Senedd directly...
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