Tag: TFL

  • London bus strike in video and pictures

    London bus strike in video and pictures

    Bus workers in Unite in London are taking historic strike action today – for one rate for the job across all 18 companies. Strikers know this might have to be just the start and are ready for a big fight, but what a start! Picket lines of 70, 100 and more, maintained all day. And…

  • NSSN 217: St Mungo’s victory/Defend Ricky Matthews

    NSSN 217: St Mungo’s victory/Defend Ricky Matthews

    STOP PRESS!! St Mungos Broadway – Strike Off! Following a day locked in talks at ACAS, the Unite SMB reps and Regional Officer, Nicky consider that they have received an offer from SMB management which is reasonable enough to be put to the membership. On this basis, the strike has been called off. – See…

  • Support London bus driver’s demo

    Support London bus driver’s demo

    A London Bus driver Unite London bus drivers are having a demonstration on Thursday 11th September.  We will assemble at 1100 am at Bressenden Place, SW1, near Victoria station and we will march down to Parliament.  Since privatisation twenty years ago, London Buses have been divided up between more than a dozen different operating companies. …

  • Ginger Jentzen from Seattle $15WON to speak at NSSN 2014!

    Ginger Jentzen from Seattle $15WON to speak at NSSN 2014!

    NSSN 196: Seattle $15WON campaigner speaks at NSSN Conference! The NSSN is delighted to announce that a Ginger Jentzen from the victorious $15Now campaign that has lifted the minimum wage to $15 per hour in Seattle will address the NSSN annual conference on July 5th. Undoubtedly, the election last year of Kshama Sawant of Socialist…

  • NSSN Conference July 5: “Fight Together for a Pay Rise!”

    NSSN Conference July 5: “Fight Together for a Pay Rise!”

    Workers are saying “What recovery? We want our share!” Millions of public sector workers are having their pay again pegged to 1% when RPI inflation is nearly 3% and energy prices are up 9%! Average household income is already 6% below 2003 levels. NHS workers are not even getting this miserly rise and correctly health…

  • NSSN 180 – Tube unions 1 Johnson 0

    NSSN 180 – Tube unions 1 Johnson 0

    A SOLID STRIKE by RMT AND TSSA has gained us a political and industrial victory over Boris Johnson. A partial retreat by our bosses from an intransigent position of refusing to withdraw their proposed cuts of a 1,000 jobs and closing virtually all ticket offices has been achieved. Action is suspended for eight weeks while…

  • We will not tolerate low pay!

    We will not tolerate low pay!

    “We will not tolerate low pay in this day and age, nor being treated like second rate people. We clean your trains, your stations and your depots. We mop up all the nasty stuff that no one else wants to deal with. We clean up after four million people who use the London underground system…