Shop
Your Account Sign In
Support Us
Subscribe
Britain World Editorial Features Culture Sport
Britain World Editorial Features Culture Sport
Climate Crisis Far Right Gaza Workers' Rights Labour Party Women’s Rugby World Cup Morning Star Video
Latest editorial
Burnham’s Labour leadership pitch requires scrutiny
Advertise Contact us Shop Subscribe Support us Daily Alert
Climate Crisis Far Right Gaza Workers' Rights Labour Party Women’s Rugby World Cup Morning Star Video
Gifts from The Morning Star
Britain / 4 February 2025
Trade unionists besiege Senedd to demand changes to the Welsh budget
Unite Wales members demonstrate outside the Senedd against the Welsh budget, February 4, 2025
David Nicholson
Recent
A ship that is part of the Global Sumud Flotilla prepares to depart to Gaza to deliver aid amid Israel's blockade on the Palestinian territory, in the Tunisian port of Bizerte, September 13, 2025
Britain / 25 September 2025
Britons ‘under attack’ on 52-boat flotilla heading to Gaza
25 September 2025
Cost-of-living Crisis / 25 September 2025
More than 100 Labour MPs urge Reeves to scrap two-child cap with gambling tax
25 September 2025
Police Spies / 25 September 2025
Blacklisted union expert lunches legal challenge against spycops chair
25 September 2025
Labour Party / 25 September 2025
Unite snubs Labour deputy leader contest as Unison and GMB back Phillipson
25 September 2025
Climate / 25 September 2025
MPs told Bank of England is holding back government’s clean energy and growth missions
25 September 2025
Scotland / 25 September 2025
Failure to protect renters a 'major backward step', warn campaigners
25 September 2025
Britain / 25 September 2025
Wales' top auditor calls for change in NHS funding model
25 September 2025
Book your advertising in print and online
Donate to the 95th anniversary appeal

TRADE UNIONISTS besieged the Senedd today as three protest demonstrations were held to influence the Welsh Labour government’s draft budget as it was debated.

A UCU Cymru rally lobbied the Welsh government after last week’s shock announcement of 400 job cuts and course closures at Cardiff University.

UCU members were joined by hundreds of trade unionists urging the Welsh government to intervene to save higher education (HE).

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Become a subscriber
More from this author
Britain / 25 September 2025
Wales' top auditor calls for change in NHS funding model
25 September 2025
WTUC president-elect Laura Doe chairing the conference
Wales / 24 September 2025
Trade unionists in Wales plan how to defeat Reform and the far right
24 September 2025
candide
Opera review / 23 September 2025
Candide capers
23 September 2025

DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity

The sign for the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Ca
Wales / 22 September 2025
Caerphilly council cancels meetings during Senedd byelection
22 September 2025
Similar stories
Britain / 9 February 2025
Welsh government review of school funding must end postcode lottery, head teachers warn
9 February 2025
General view of the Cardiff University Brain Research Imagin
Britain / 29 January 2025
UCU ballot Cardiff University staff for industrial action to oppose proposed job cuts
29 January 2025
Britain / 10 December 2024
Trade unions cautiously welcome Welsh government's 2025-26 budget
10 December 2024
Teachers protest outside the Senedd
Britain / 19 November 2024
Teachers protest outside the Senedd demanding full funding for education
19 November 2024