NSSN GUIDE TO ACTION (with a few more practical additions)

a) We encourage supporters to concentrate on organising local and regional

NSSN Networks with events and meetings to help rank and file activists to build up reliable support networks.

b) We welcome the TUC national demonstration on October 20th and we will

do everything we can to make this day a successful start to the next phase of an action-based campaign against austerity.

c) We advocate that the next step should be for the TUC to organise a

one-day general strike, which includes both public and private sectors, against all cuts to pensions and wages, jobs, services, and housing; to stop privatisations of NHS, education and public services; and to stop the slavery of workfare. To this end we call on trade unionists, campaigners, youth and pensioners to come to Brighton in TUC week to lobby delegates to press for a national strike, to hold an NSSN fringe meeting to highlight this demand.

d) We would encourage all supporters to set up a standing order of £2 or

£1 a month to the NSSN. We seriously need money to continue producing and distributing material. The NHS special bulletin we made for conference was snapped up and we need to do a re-print already!

e) Please also share this bulletin as far as you can and share information

from us and with us via twitter and Facebook. As ever, we welcome your contributions to make this bulletin relevant. [email protected]

Our apologies that we had to cut short speakers from several key disputes and international struggles such as that of the Kazakhstan workers and limit time from the floor for speakers. So much is going on!

We are also aware that this year, we did not have workshop sessions, as it would have cost another £1600 at Friends Meeting House for space hire. We hope to change that next year so that more people can participate. Feel free to send any feedback to us, and thank you again!

NSSN EVENTS

RMT Conference Fringe Meeting: Monday 25 June Lunchtime, Torquay Riviera Centre.

Unite Conference Fringe Meeting: Tuesday 26 June, Lunchtime, UMI Hotel, Brighton.

Welsh Shop Stewards’ Network Conference: Sat 30th June 10am-3pm Temple of Peace, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff Speakers include Katrine Williams (Chair PCS Wales), Les Woodward (Remploy National convenor), Owen Herbert RMT Council of Executives, Cerith Griffiths Wales FBU Chair, John Hancock POA NEC.

North-West NSSN meeting: ‘How can we stop victimisation on sites?’ Speakers Steve Acheson and Kevin Holmes. Tuesday 10 July, Warrington Railway Club, WA1 1XR. 7.30pm.

UPDATES:

The NSSN has been assisting Unite in fighting the threatened closure of refining operations at Coryton refinery. Shell would like to buy it but only as a terminal. This depot serves much of London and the South-East of England and over 800 jobs are at stake. The government has announced there will be no state aid for Coryton despite protests that took place in London on 14 June. Up to 200 Coryton workers marched from Waterloo to the Department of Energy and Climate Change in Whitehall and then to the Shell HQ at Waterloo. The workers laid wreaths at these offices to mark the death of jobs in the refinery!

Scandalously, nobody from these bodies was prepared to talk to the workers and neither were the press! So to get media coverage, the workers marched to the royal Courts of Justice in the Strand to protest as Cameron gave evidence to the Leveson inquiry! That got them noticed! The first redundancies could take place as soon as next week and Unite must be prepared to step up protests and action.

The NSSN has organised the following public meeting with Unite: Monday, 18 June ‘Support the Coryton Workers: Stop the Jobs massacre!’ Speakers from Coryton Unite, Linda McCulloch (Unite National Officer for the Chemicals sector), NSSN, Visteon 2009 Occupation, Right to Work. Pitsea Leisure Centre, Northlands Pavement, Pitsea, Basildon, Essex SS13 3DU 7.30pm.