Alan Jones is Industrial Correspondent for PA Media, covering business, employment, trade unions and campaign groups. For the past year he has been writing about the wave of strikes, regularly breaking news of developments because of his union contacts. He also writes about Julian Assange after being the first to report his arrival at the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012. He has won several awards from organisations including Press Gazette and the Industrial Society. He started his career in the 1970s on the Flintshire Leader in his home town of Holywell in North Wales.