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Wales TUC: Unions to work with Labour for a new economy

TRADE unions in Wales will continue to work with Cardiff Bay’s Labour government while pushing for a new economy, Wales TUC president David Evans told conference yesterday.

He said that workers wanted to move away from “a reliance on low pay and insecure work which is bad for communities and damaging to our long-term economic prospects.

Mr Evans stressed that the cost-of-living crisis has dominated working people’s experience.

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