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Carwyn Jones addressing the conference
FIRST Minister Carwyn Jones has contrasted the “genuine social partnership” between his government and trade unions in Wales with the attacks suffered by workers in England under the Tories.
Earning a standing ovation for his final first ministerial address to Wales TUC congress before stepping down later this year, Mr Jones said today that, when the UK government ended NHS student bursaries, his administration had consulted health unions and kept them.
The same applied to the education maintenance allowance (EMA), which was scrapped in England but retained in Wales after discussions with the National Union of Students.
JACKIE OWEN and DYLAN LEWIS-ROWLANDS argue that Welsh Labour conference this weekend is the be-all and end-all moment if Labour wants to avoid a rout at next year’s election
LUKE FLETCHER pours scorn on Labour’s betrayal of the Welsh steel industry, where the option of nationalisation was sneered at and dismissed – unlike at Scunthorpe where the government stepped in
