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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 […]

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415: Cammell Laird workers start 10 weeks of industrial action

November 27, 2018 in Bulletins

We headline this week’s NSSN bulletin by sending solidarity to workers in Unite and the GMB unions fighting job cuts at Cammell Laird shipyard on Merseyside. From the Unite website: Cammell Laird workers in 10 weeks of industrial action over ‘callous’ job cuts (22 Nov) Workers at Birkenhead’s Cammell Laird shipyard will begin a 10 week programme of industrial action tomorrow (Friday 23 November) in defence of their jobs, amid plans to slash the workforce by 40 per cent. Around 250 members of Britain and Ireland’s largest trade union, Unite, will start their action with an overtime ban from 16:00 […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, blacklist, bob crow, Brexit, BT, Cammell Laird, cleaners, CWU, Ellesmere Port, Fast Food Rights, fbu, general strike, GMB, housing, Liverpool, Merseyside, Miners, napo, NEU, nssn, rmt, Scotland, TUC, Unite, Universal Credit, Vauxhall, Yorkshire
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414: Tory crisis – TUC & unions mobilise to force general election!

November 20, 2018 in Bulletins

From Linda Taaffe NSSN national secretary:- Emergency General Council of the TUC urgently needed This austerity big business government is hanging by a thread. The Tories are tearing themselves apart. They don’t know which way to turn. Theresa May is weak. Her only strength is the fact that there is no realistic alternative Tory leader. The ruling class have never been in such an exposed position in our lifetime! After 10 years since the 2007-8 financial crisis workers have suffered endless austerity and there is no end in sight. Even the UN rapporteur has made scathing comments about the levels […]

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413: Teaching unions start indicative ballot on pay & funding

November 13, 2018 in Bulletins

This week, we headline with the consultative ballot by teaching unions. This is from the NEU:- Hands up because enough is enough! Recently, we set the Government six tests for school funding before the Chancellor’s autumn Budget. This was the Government’s opportunity to change course and properly fund the schools our children deserve. Instead, the Government has failed children once again. Our schools are at a breaking point and asking them to use their funds to meet a proportion of the latest teacher’s pay award is the final straw. A one-off payment for ‘little extras’ will do nothing to address […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, ASCL, blacklist, bob crow, cleaners, CWU, DFLA, Education, EIS, Fascism, Fast Food Rights, funding, housing, John McDonnell MP, NAHT, NEU, nhs, NIPSA, nssn, NUT, Pay, pensions, poa, Racism, schools, spain, TARIS, terms and conditions, tupe, Turkey, UCU, Unite, USA, Yorkshire
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412: Support Hants Prysmian Cables & Systems strike

November 6, 2018 in Bulletins

The second 48 hour strike at Prysmian Cables & Systems in Eastleigh, Hampshire will go ahead tomorrow and Thursday, November 7-8 over a derisory pay offer below inflation. These are on top of the five days of strike action already taken since 26 September This is a report from last week’s first two day stoppage by Declan Clune, Secretary of Southampton & South West Hampshire Trades Union Council and a NSSN supporter:- It was a ‘spooky’ affair outside Prysmian Cables this very cold morning with workers joining the picket line dressed appropriately for Halloween. One worker said jokingly, “We’re trying […]

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NSSN 411: 30,000 march for Scottish teachers’ pay

October 30, 2018 in Bulletins

For the second successive week, we headline the NSSN bulletin with a mass mobilisation of Scottish workers. Last Saturday, 30,000 teachers and supporters marched in Glasgow as part of the pay campaign by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) teaching union. The EIS demonstration took place just days after the incredible 8,000-strong Unison and GMB Equal Pay strike by women workers in Glasgow City Council. This statement is from the EIS website:- 30,000 marchers send clear message to government on teachers’ pay (29 Oct) An incredible 30,000 people, comprised of teachers from right across Scotland together with parents, children and […]

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NSSN 410: Glasgow Women March and Strike for Equal Pay

October 24, 2018 in Bulletins

This week, we headline our bulletin with the strike on October 22-23 by 8,000 workers in Unison and the GMB in Glasgow City Council. The NSSN gives our full support and solidarity to the workers and their unions. This is the Unison statement:- Thousands of Glasgow’s women march for equal pay (23 October 2018) Thousands of Glasgow’s women took to the streets today (Tuesday) to demand Glasgow City Council resolve the long-standing pay injustice. Around 10,000 home carers, cleaners, caterers, school workers and other council staff marched together to George Square to demand equal pay. This is the first […]

Tags: #10AndAUnion, 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, BFAWU, blacklist, bob crow, cleaners, condems, Equal pay, Fast Food Rights, fbu, general strike, Glasgow, Glasgow Unison, housing, IWGB, John McDonnell MP, Miners, napo, NEU, nhs, no cuts, nssn, NUT, Pay, PSI Global Union, Scotland, UCAC, Women, Yorkshire
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NSSN 409: RMT steps up action on the trains and tube

October 16, 2018 in Bulletins

This week we headline with escalating action by RMT members in disputes against Driver Only Operation on Northern Rail and South Western Railway as well as on the Piccadilly Line on London Underground. We stand shoulder to shoulder with the RMT, who initiated the NSSN in 2006 under the then General Secretary the late great Bob Crow. Piccadilly Line tube drivers to strike again in long-running dispute over breakdown in industrial relations (15 Oct) – TUBE UNION RMT confirmed today that driver members on the Piccadilly Line will strike again next month in a long-running dispute over the […]

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408: Glasgow council workers to strike for equal pay justice

October 10, 2018 in Bulletins

Statement from Glasgow Unison Branch:- Glasgow Equal Pay – Why we are striking. You will be aware that Glasgow school support for learning staff, child development officers, school administration workers, home carers, cleaners, caterers and other council workers are being called out on strike on 23/24 October in a dispute over the council’s failure to reach agreement on a long standing equal pay dispute. GMB members will also be taking strike action at these times. Around 8,000 trade union members will be called out on strike. This dispute is about the council’s failure to make any real progress on […]

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407: Support Hospitality strike this Thursday #FFS410

October 2, 2018 in Bulletins

The National Shop Stewards Network is proud to support the co-ordinated strike this Thursday October 4th by restaurant and hospitality workers. Two of our affiliated unions the BFAWU and Unite are prominent in the action, alongside the GMB, IWW and IWGB. We believe that these struggles are giving workers in these sectors confidence to fight back. Workers in the BFAWU in the ‘Ivy House’ pub in South London walked out in solidarity with their sacked workmates last Sunday and are still out. Join the protests outside the pub – 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE. For up to date […]

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