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NSSN 425: Victories show action works!

February 18, 2019 in Bulletins

This week, we headline our bulletin with news of recent successes after long running disputes – by women workers in Glasgow fighting for equal pay and the RMT fighting Driver Only Operation on Northern Rail. We send our solidarity and hope that both will be finally settled acceptably to both sets of workers and their unions Unison & GMB ‘We won’ – Glasgow women celebrate equal pay (7 Feb) – City Chambers rally greets council’s ratification of £548m deal to compensate for years of unequal pay. “We won!” was the cry as underpaid women workers held a celebratory rally […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, BFAWU, blacklist, cleaners, CWU, Equal pay, Fast Food Rights, fbu, general strike, housing, Miners, napo, nhs, no cuts, Northern Rail, nssn, NUT, rmt, Scotland, terms and conditions, Yorkshire
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NSSN 424: Birmingham binworkers get ready to strike again

February 5, 2019 in Bulletins

The NSSN sends solidarity to the binworkers who were on strike in 2017 and are being forced to take action again. From the Unite website:- Birmingham bins dispute escalates as council ignores deadline for peace deal (4 Feb) Unite, the UK and Ireland’s largest union, has announced that over 300 refuse workers employed by Birmingham council will begin two days of strike action a week, starting Tuesday 19 February, in an escalation of the ongoing industrial dispute. The two days a week of strike action, will be in addition to the overtime ban and the work to rule which the […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Appeal, BFAWU, Binworkers, Birmingham, blacklist, bob crow, cleaners, CWU, Fast Food Rights, Homecare, housing, INMO, mandate, Miners, Pay, pcs, poa, rmt, Scotland, Strike, terms and conditions, TUC, tupe, UCU, Unison, Unite
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NSSN 423: Support the Ireland Nurses and Midwives strike!

January 29, 2019 in Bulletins

Nearly 40,000 health workers in Ireland are due to start strike action tomorrow against wage restraint. The National Shop Stewards Network gives our full support and solidarity to Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) and its members. “Ireland’s nurses and midwives will go on strike for 24 hours on January 30th, it was announced. The union is legally required to give one week’s notice, but has given three to allow for safety planning. Should the dispute go unresolved, there will be further 24-hour strikes on 5th and 7th of February, and then the 12th, 13th and 14th. The strike […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, bob crow, cleaners, CWU, Fast Food Rights, general strike, housing, INMO, Ireland, lobby, Midwives, NEU, nssn, Nurses, pcs, Strike, tupe, Yorkshire
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422: Glasgow women workers step closer to equal pay victory!

January 22, 2019 in Bulletins

Last October, thousands of Glasgow council workers sent on a 48-hour strike to demand equal pay. We are delighted to report that a potentially decisive step has been reached in talks with the employer:- GLASGOW EQUAL PAY UPDATE from Unison Glasgow City Branch:- Earlier this week the claimants’ campaign gave Glasgow City Council a revised proposal on a “Take it or Leave it Basis”. The proposal kept all the principles that the campaign has been built on: Value Equality inclusion Parity Consistency Clarity Transparency Protection Unity The council negotiators agreed to take the proposal to Councillor Aitken with a recommendation. […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Affiliate, Equal pay, fbu, general strike, Glasgow, housing, INMO, Ireland, Miners, NASUWT, no cuts, nssn, NUT, pcs, PNA, USDAW
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NSSN 421: Support the striking Durham bus drivers!

January 15, 2019 in Bulletins

From Unite website:- Unite in talks on Durham bus pay dispute, as new strike dates announced (11 Jan) – Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, is to hold talks with Arriva Durham County Ltd on Thursday (17 January) in a bid to resolve the long-running pay dispute. But at the same time, the union announced a further ten days of strike action by its 650 bus drivers from 00:01 on 27 January until 23:59 on 5 February. The bus drivers, based at Darlington, Durham, Redcar, Stockton and Whitby, are currently on strike for a week in the pay dispute. The […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, austerity, blacklist, bullying, Bus Drivers, cleaners, CWU, Durham, EIS, general strike, Ireland, Midwives, Miners, nhs, no cuts, Nurses, pcs, pensions, Strike, terms and conditions, tupe, Yorkshire
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NSSN 420: March this Saturday for a General Election to get the Tories out!

January 9, 2019 in Bulletins

The NSSN is supporting this Saturday’s ‘Britain is Broken – General Election Now’. It is vital that the trade union movement mobilises to force out the Tories and fight for a government led by Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell on the pro-worker anti-austerity Labour manifesto from the 2017 General Election. This is the best way to unite workers and not allow them to be divided. Saturday 12th January – Britain is Broken – General Election Now! Demonstration in London hosted by The People’s Assembly against Austerity. Assemble 12pm BBC Portland Place near Oxford tube station Facebook event […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, blacklist, bullying, Fast Food Rights, fbu, general strike, INMO, napo, Peoples Assembly, terms and conditions, Tories Out, tupe, Unite
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NSSN 419: Happy New Year – get the Tories out in 2019!

January 3, 2019 in Bulletins

The NSSN sends solidarity greetings to our supporters and affiliates as we enter 2019. Let’s make this the year that we get rid of this Tory Government. Saturday 12th January – Britain is Broken – General Election Now! Demonstration in London hosted by The People’s Assembly against Austerity Facebook event NSSN news Get your trade union branch or trades council to affiliate to the NSSN – it only costs £50. Already affiliated? Please think about renewing it. Also, many of our supporters pay a few pounds a month. You can set up a similar standing order to ‘National Shop […]

Tags: 2019, 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, austerity, blacklist, bullying, CWU, EIS, housing, lobby, mandate, Miners, napo, NASUWT, New Year, nhs, no cuts, nssn, Pay, pcs, pensions, Peoples Assembly, poa, rmt, terms and conditions, Tories, Turkey, Unite, Yorkshire
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NSSN 418: Seasons greetings – support the Xmas strikes!

December 18, 2018 in Bulletins

The National Shop Stewards Network sends season’s greetings to our supporters and affiliates. Every week we publicise disputes and build support and solidarity for them. This year, there are a number of strikes and actions taking place in the run-up to and during the holidays. Please read through our bulletin to find out more about them and if they are in your area, try and get along to give your support. See you in 2019, when hopefully we can finally get rid of the Tories! Saturday 12th January – Britain is Broken – General Election Now! Demonstration in London hosted […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Appeal, austerity, bullying, fbu, housing, John McDonnell MP, lobby, Miners, napo, nhs, no cuts, nssn, pensions, poa, terms and conditions, tesco, TUC, tupe, Unison, Unite, Yorkshire
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NSSN 417: BECTU reps to be reinstated at the Ritzy

December 11, 2018 in Bulletins

This week, we send our solidarity and congratulations to BECTU and their members involved in the long-running campaign at Picturehouse – in particular the two victimised reps at the Brixton Ritzy cinema, who have won their reinstatement From the BECTU website: BECTU members to be reinstated to the Ritzy in January (5 Dec) Two BECTU reps unfairly sacked by Picturehouse-owned Ritzy must be returned to their former positions at the Brixton cinema, an employment tribunal hearing has ruled. A judge ruled that all the individuals involved were capable of working in a professional and mature manner after hearing evidence from the […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, BECTU, blacklist, Brixton, CWU, general strike, housing, nssn, pcs, pensions, Picturehouse, poa, Ritzy, Scotland, Stansted, terms and conditions, Unite, Yorkshire
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NSSN 416: Striking Grimethorpe dinner ladies save their jobs

December 4, 2018 in Bulletins

We headline this week’s NSSN bulletin by sending congratulations to school meals supervisors in Yorkshire From Unison website: Members return to work as redundancy plans dropped after 36 days of strike action. Dinner ladies at Ladywood school in Grimethorpe return to work today, having seen off a bid to make them all redundant. The school meals supervisors in the historic mining village just outside Barnsley, South Yorkshire, had taken 36 days of strike, beginning in September. UNISON reached an agreement with the school management to address the deficit in the school’s budget without any redundancies, due to expected natural staff […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, ASCL, austerity, Barnsley, bob crow, cleaners, CWU, Fast Food Rights, general strike, Grimethorpe, housing, lobby, Miners, NAHT, NEU, nhs, nssn, NUT, Pay, poa, rmt, TUC, Unison, Unite, Yorkshire
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