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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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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 […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Affiliate, ASCL, blacklist, bullying, cleaners, CWU, Fast Food Rights, General Election, Hamilton, housing, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, John McDonnell MP, lobby, Miners, NAHT, napo, NEU, nhs, Pay, Scotland, Strike, Theresa May, Tories, TUC, tupe, Unite, 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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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 […]

Tags: 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, austerity, BFAWU, bullying, cleaners, CWU, Eastleigh, EIS, Fast Food Rights, fbu, general strike, GMB, Google, Hampshire, housing, lobby, Miners, napo, NEU, nhs, nssn, Pay, Prysmian Cables & Systems, rmt, Scotland, Strike, terms and conditions, TGI Fridays, TUC, tupe, UCU, Unison, Unite, walkout, Yorkshire
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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 […]

Tags: #FFS410, 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, BFAWU, cleaners, CWU, DFLA, EIS, Equal pay, Fast Food Rights, fbu, general strike, Glasgow, housing, IWGB, NEU, nhs, nssn, Pay, rmt, terms and conditions, TUC, tupe, Uber, UberEats, UCU, Unison, Unite, 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 […]

Tags: #FFS410, 24 General strike, Affiliate, Appeal, austerity, BFAWU, blacklist, bob crow, cleaners, CWU, Deliveroo, EIS, Fast Food Rights, fbu, general strike, GMB, Headteachers, housing, Hungry For Justice, Ivy House, IWGB, IWW, McDonald's, Miners, napo, NEU, no cuts, nssn, NUT, Pay, pcs, pensions, poa, rmt, Scotland, Strike, terms and conditions, TGI Fridays, TUC, tupe, Uber Eats, UCAC, UCU, Unison, Unite, Wetherspoons, Yorkshire
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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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NSSN 405: POA members take action over prison safety

September 19, 2018 in Bulletins

The National Shop Stewards Network sends solidarity to the POA union whose members took part in protests outside prisons last Friday over the massive safety concerns that the union has for their members and other staff and inmates as a result of Tory cuts. The POA have disgracefully had their democratic right to take industrial action taken from them. The NSSN is proud that they have been a longstanding affiliate of ours and we call on the whole trade union movement to stand with them. The action has forced the Government to enter talks with the union. POA General […]

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