The Graig Factor
The newsletter of the Graig Socialist Party
issue no. 2 July 2011
Huge threat to the services at Royal Glamorgan Hospital will have devastating effects for all of us. These cuts are simply the result of all the politicians who think its perfectly fine to make ordinary working class people pay for the financial crisis caused by the banking sector . It shows clearly who they all represent, when they would rather pay out for bankers bonus’ than they would keep the rest of us alive by keeping a fully funded National Health Service.
Whilst the Welsh Assembly government are so keen to tell us that they are protecting us from the worst effects of the cuts, the forget to mention they have voted for cuts to the NHS three times higher than in England. The result of this? Local residents will suffer, The local health board based within the Graig at Dewi Saint hospital have announced plans to cut £100 million from the budget. The plans include a proposed merger of the Royal Glamorgan in Llantrisant with the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr. Which will provide the services of only one general hospital between them! Effectively the health board plan to cut back the services of one whole hospital but by splitting those cuts across the two exisitng sites.
general hospital to deal with the needs of people currently served by two hospitals. People in Graig who would normally travel to Llantrisant for hospital treatment may well have to travel as far as Prince Charles hospital in Merthyr for treatment and vice versa. It has not yet been announced by the healthboard which services will remain at each site, but what is certain is that they be worse off where ever they are.
Health workers or NHS users did not cause the financial crisis, why should we be forced to pay the price whilst the banks are still raking it in?” Glyn Matthews, Graig Socialist Party
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PUBLIC MEETING Where next to stop the cuts? The services at both hospitals are already over stretched they need more funding not less! This will be a fundementally worse health service than we currently have, with the services of one
Come along and to discuss and debate the way forward in the battle to stop cuts to vital services and jobs whilsts the rich are laughing all the way to the bank.
Wednesday 6th July, 7.30pm, Pontypridd YMCA
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The Graig Factor
The newsletter of the Graig Socialist Party
issue no. 2 July 2011
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Young people are set to March for Jobs Merthyr—Pontypridd—Cardiff Young people from around South Wales involved in the Youth Fight for Jobs campaign will embark on a three day march starting in Merthyr and ending in Cardiff City Centre from August 4-6th. The march has been organised because of the lack of employment opportunities in the area and in particular opportunities for young people, whilst at the same time the government are making huge cuts to jobs in the public sector which will only serve to drive up unemployment.
people from the valleys searching for jobs in Cardiff as there are very few jobs here for us in the first place.
“Young people are being offered no future, there are no decent jobs on offer and there are already 1 million unemployed young people. We have no option but to fight for our future”
is to fight for it, make the bankers pay for the crisis they caused and refuse to be a lost generation. If you are interested in participating in the march or in helping in any way you can with advertising, donations or anything else then you can contact Rhys Harrison one of the march organisers on 07814428973 or via e-mail: rhysi87@hotmail.com go to youthfightforjobs.com for more information.
Rhys Harrison, march organiser and Graig resident
Preparations for the march came in the wake of the comments by Iain Duncan Smith that people from Merthyr should just get on the bus to Cardiff to get a job. Nice enough if you can get it, but figure from the PCS Union which organises workers in job centre’s show that for every job vacancy in Cardiff there are already nine job seekers and that is before you add in
Young people are at the sharp end of the government’s attacks, often in insecure of temporary employment, there are already 1 million young people who are unemployed and this is set to get much worse now that young people will find themselves increasing locked out of education with rising tuition fees. It is clear that the only way for young people to have a decent future
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