http://www.bethanjenkins.org Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:03:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 cy   [caption id="attachment_732" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Even robots still need humans, but car makers use Welsh workers less and less"][/caption] The closure of the Linamar factory in Swansea shows once again that Wales is far too often buffeted by the misfortunes of international business. Now is the time to take charge     PEOPLE in politics ... http://www.bethanjenkins.org/real-green-shoots-in-a-world-of-hammers MAE Bethan Jenkins AC wedi galw ar Lywodraethau Cymru a'r DU i archwilio proses caffael Ford  yn sgil y cyhoeddiad heddiw bod ffatri Linamar yn Abertawe'n cau. Mae'r AC Plaid dros Orllewin De Cymru wedi bod yn gweithio gyda staff a swyddogion yr undeb yn y ffatri ers sawl mis, ar ... http://www.bethanjenkins.org/rhaid-i-ford-“rannur-bai”-am-fethiant-linamar [caption id="attachment_729" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Bethan speaking at the Visteon rally outside Unite's London headquarters in March this year"][/caption] BETHAN Jenkins AM has welcomed the news that the union Unite is to take forward legal action against the Ford Motor Company, accusing it of mis-selling pensions to thousands of its former workers. Bethan, ... http://www.bethanjenkins.org/am-welcomes-unite-decision-on-court-case-against-ford Bethan Jenkins AM has welcomed the Welsh Government’s new economic renewal programme, arguing that it will present opportunities for start-ups, entrepreneurs, established companies and learning institutions alike. Economic Renewal: A New Direction, announced by Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones, makes a fundamental shift away from the day-to-day management of Welsh ... http://www.bethanjenkins.org/economic-renewal-programme-will-benefit-region’s-rd-says-am BETHAN Jenkins AM has written to the new Pensions Minister Steve Webb to urge him to back a Parliamentary inquiry into the collapse of Visteon UK and the role Ford played in its demise. Some 700 former workers from the Swansea area are fighting to have their pensions restored after the ... http://www.bethanjenkins.org/will-the-uk-parliament-investigate-visteon Bethan Jenkins AM is arguing that new Welsh Government policy on renewable energy should mean a stop to large-sale biomass power stations like those proposed along Swansea Bay. Last Tuesday, Environment Minister Jane Davidson AM released a statement on planning for renewable energy yesterday, in which she once more committed her administration ... http://www.bethanjenkins.org/welsh-government-policy-should-mean-no-to-biomass-stations Bethan Jenkins AM has welcomed a new Welsh Assembly Government project that will help 840 jobless people in the Neath Port Talbot area take their first steps towards employment. The £2.4 million NSA STRIDES Alliance (Sustainable Training Initiative Developing Employment Skills) initiative announced today (TUE) aims to boost the confidence of ... http://www.bethanjenkins.org/am-welcomes-help-for-jobless-people-in-neath-port-talbot Bethan is featured in a full length interview on The Independent's website today. You can read the whole piece here. http://www.bethanjenkins.org/bethans-feature-in-the-independent       [caption id="attachment_722" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Can the weatherman tell us which way the wind is blowing for Welsh media?"][/caption] New Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has finally brought an end to plans for Independently Funded News Consortia pilots in Wales and elsewhere, which would have provided multi-media news delivery in place of ITV.       The issue ... http://www.bethanjenkins.org/bethan-on-ifncs Bethan Jenkins led a short debate on the Visteon pensions crisis today in the Senedd. This is what she said: I’m going to start this debate with a story. One day, a mouse chanced upon a farmer and his wife setting a mousetrap. Very alarmed, he immediately ran off to tell the ... http://www.bethanjenkins.org/governing-the-corporations-–-lessons-to-be-learned-from-visteon-uk