News Articles

The Merthyr Rising

Cymru is a long-time home of the labour movement and socialism in the UK with a number of well renowned figures from Aneurin Bevan, founder of the NHS, to Sam Mainwaring, the father of the term “anarcho-syndicalism”. Industrially exploited as…

Read more »

Solidarity gets the goods!

IWW Cymru holds a successful picket outside a cafe in Dolgellau to ensure a fellow worker receives a P45.

Read more »

Support workers win PPE and compensation for unpaid hours

Welsh support worker in a homeless shelter documents how coronavirus has worsened conditions, and what can be achieved when workers organise.

Read more »

Nail bar worker wins back a month of unpaid wages!

Nail salon worker in south-west Wales wins back several hundred pounds of unpaid wages!

Read more »

Mystery Marble near West Wales Village commemorates the IWW

The story behind a mystery marble found in West Wales, and of the man behind it.

Read more »

Problems for care workers with Welsh Government bonus

The Welsh Government's care worker bonus of £500 sounds too good to be true, and in some ways it is. We cover issues with it in this article.

Read more »

Back to work advice

Some advice for retail workers who are going back to work in unsafe conditions.

Read more »

Slicing through a fast-food franchise!

Victory! With the support of IWW Cymru, a fast-food worker sliced through the dense bureaucracy of a franchise to stop them from jeopardising her pension!

Read more »

A look back at our year as a Union…

What a year 2018 has been for the IWW!  As we reach the end of the year in which we broke the 2000 member barrier, we wanted to spend some time reflecting on what has been a huge year for…

Read more »