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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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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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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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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 […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, BFAWU, bob crow, cleaners, DOO, Fast Food Rights, fbu, Guards, housing, John McDonnell MP, Miners, NEU, no cuts, Northern Rail, nssn, Pay, pcs, Piccadilly Line, rmt, Scotland, South Western Railway, Strike, terms and conditions, Yorkshire
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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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NSSN 406: Workers strike back against NHS privatisation

September 25, 2018 in Bulletins

Unite members in the NHS in both Kent and Yorkshire are striking this week over being transferred into wholly owned subsidiaries. This is despite this practice of privatisation supposedly being ‘paused’. Health workers have won victories in Mid Yorkshire, Esk & Wear Valley and Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Trusts and Unison members have now won a ballot to strike in Bolton. The NSSN calls for support and solidarity to all these workers and their unions and supports the demand to end the transfers and all privatisation in the NHS and the bringing back to the NHS of all […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, austerity, bob crow, cleaners, CWU, Fast Food Rights, fbu, general strike, John McDonnell MP, lobby, McDonald's, NEU, nhs, pcs, pensions, poa, rmt, Scotland, terms and conditions, TGI Fridays, Unite, Wetherspoons, wholly owned subsidiaries, Yorkshire
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404: NSSN TUC Rally – general election to ‘Get Tories Out!’

September 13, 2018 in Bulletins

The National Shop Stewards Network rally last Sunday September 9th before the start of TUC Congress was a tremendous event with over 200 trade union activists attending alongside congress delegates. TUC was held in Manchester to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first congress in 1868 and the NSSN rally took place in the venue of that first conference, the Mechanics Institute. Leaders from fighting unions spoke alongside rank & file union reps and activists, including those who have been taking action. The clear message from speakers was that we need to fight for a general election to get […]

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403: Come to NSSN Rally at TUC in Manchester

September 5, 2018 in Bulletins

In the year of the 150th anniversary of the TUC, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is again organising a rally before the start of TUC Congress: ‘Fight Together to Get the Tories Out!’ It will be from 1pm on Sunday September 9th in the Manchester Mechanics Institute/Conference Centre, Princess Street, M1 6DD. Leaders from fighting unions will be speaking alongside rank & file union reps and activists, including those who have been taking action. Confirmed speakers so far: RMT General Secretary Mick Cash, BFAWU General Secretary Ronnie Draper, USDAW President Amy Murphy (personal capacity), POA Deputy General Secretary […]

Tags: 150, 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, austerity, blacklist, bob crow, CWU, housing, Manchester, Miners, NEU, nhs, no cuts, nssn, NUT, Pay, poa, rmt, Scotland, TUC, tupe, UCU, Unison, Unite
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