NSSN Bulletin
No.93
31 May One
week to go to NSSN Conference! Keep the pensions fight going!
Updates from strikes at Ratcliffe, Tilbury docks and Sheffield
Recycling centre. international reports from Ireland, Sri Lanka
and Turkey.
Doctors reject Con-Dem pension offer:
Build for another public sector strike allaince!
The public sector pensions struggle could go two
ways. Yesterday we saw the doctors’ vote for industrial action
on 21st June by a margin of 79%.
Junior doctors, the furthest away from retirement
but longer to pay increased contributions and longer to work,
voted 92% for action. Coming on the back of the 400,000 strong
10th May strike, this could be the trigger for another
co-ordinated strike.
Yet today, the Local Government executive of
Unison have given the go ahead for a ballot of their council
members on the final offer from the government. Rather than
campaign for a rejection of a deal that's hardly changed since
before N30, Unison's leaders will be hoping that its accepted.
We call on Unison's members in the councils to follow the
example of the doctors and also Unison and GMB members in the
NHS and totally reject the deal. Then all those unions still
standing - the overwhelming majority of the N30 strike coalition
who delivered 2 million workers on strike - should agree a new
date for a co-ordinated strike, in effect a 24 hour public
sector general strike as the beginning of sustained action. But
this time the unions could be joined by the doctors, the nurses
in the RCN, the brave prison officers.... even the police? This
is the clearest sign that it’s the Con-Dems who are weak,
divided and isolated and can be defeated. Now's the time to keep
our nerve, not settle for a deal that still means we pay more,
work longer to get less when we retire.
We appeal to all workers and anti-cuts campaigners young and old
to come to our conference and debate the way forward to defend
pensions. But especially if you're a
Unison member, come and help us put pressure on your union
leaders and also give your fellow members the confidence to put
a cross next to the box marked NO!
Register online for the NSSN Conference NOW:
http://www.shopstewards.net/register.htm
Saturday 9th June 11-4pm Friends Meeting
House, Euston Road, London
1. UPDATES
600 construction workers walk off site at Radcliffe, in
solidarity
with suspended steward picket line.
http://www.shopstewards.net/news.293.htm
PCS members walkout at DVLA Swansea local office at 3.00
p.m. on Friday 1 June in protest at the proposed closure.
Supporters welcome 2.40 p.m onwards.
RMT declares programme of industrial action on Tyne and Wear
Metro in disputes over pay and victimisation. 7th, 21st June
jointly with ASLEF & UNITE. Churchill Contract member: 48 hours
10th June.
http://tinyurl.com/boqw7rn
UCU members at Chesterfield College voted overwhelmingly
to take strike action over plans to slash the pay of 148
hourly-paid staff by 20%.
http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=6103
UNITE Dockers at Tilbury staged a second strike in their
dispute with Enterprise Distribution Centre (EDC) over the
arbitrary introduction of new contracts. Members of the
Swedish Dockworkers' Union began a sympathy blockade in
their support against paper manufacturer Stora Enso.
http://tinyurl.com/cryxlg9
GMB strike at Sheffield recycle centres with 3 days of
action over cuts by a Labour Council!
http://tinyurl.com/cqkacsa
Kimberley anti-academies strike
http://ow.ly/bd2Bw
Pupils and parents occupy carpet tycoon's store in
anti-academies protest Downhills school forced academy plans
http://ow.ly/bbHEC
RMT Tube workers balloted for action in two separate
disputes.
http://tinyurl.com/dxxkw3z
Unite bus workers Olympic £500 - A fair reward for keep
London moving.
http://tinyurl.com/calppwp
Unite and PCS hold urgent talks to save hundreds of jobs at HP
http://ow.ly/bbHAC
RMT – One year on – scandal of major train contract continues:
http://tinyurl.com/cw73knl
2. INTERNATIONAL
IRELAND - VITA CORTEX workers 5 month sit in ended last
week after a compromise agreement they agreed. Solidarity!
http://tinyurl.com/ccd2mst
March against privatising of home help sees a 1000 on the
streets of Cork!
http://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/21931
UGANDAN workers get ready to strike on 4th June over
minimum wage and increase in teachers wages, plus more!
http://tinyurl.com/6me55ao
JORDON construction workers plan strike over failure to
pay.
http://tinyurl.com/7pco8td
NORWAY petrol shortage looms as Oslo council workers join
indefinite strike!
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/119638
NIGERIA IMO workers began indefinite strike action
yesterday!
http://allafrica.com/stories/201205300270.html
QUEBEC Mass student strike passes 100th day
http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/5768
SRI LANKA – Teachers strike begins on 4th June (FUTA)
over salary increases.
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_12/May30_1338354034CH.php
TURKEY – We’re sick of this – workers of Turkish Airlines
call in sick over new laws and right to strike.
http://tinyurl.com/82xko7p &
http://tinyurl.com/7o5osm8
3. DIARY
31 May
Rail unions and trades councils are holding the
following public meetings opposing the Government’s proposed
cuts to jobs and services in the rail industry
Andover 7.30pm – Andover Guild Hall, High Street, Andover
Battersea & Wandsworth 6.30pm – The Bread & Roses, 68 Clapham
Street
Barnstaple 7.00pm – Castle Centre, Barnstaple, EX31 1DR
Blackburn 7.30pm – Blackburn Central Library, Town Hall Street,
BB2 1AG
Bristol 7.00pm – Council House, College Green, Bristol
Cardiff 7.00pm – Unite Offices, 1 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, CF11
9SD
Liverpool 7.00pm – Unite Offices, 2 Churchill Way, Liverpool, L3
8EF
Southend 7.30pm – Southend Central Library, Victoria Avenue, SS2
6EX
01 June
PCS members at DVLA Swansea local office begin
strike action.
Sandringham Park in Llansamlet (SA6 8AJ) 3:00 PM. Visit & show
support
Protest outside Hospitality & Tourism Summit.
Called by hotel workers’ branch of Unite in support of London
Living Wage, InterContinental London Hotel, Park Lane
02 June
Benefit Gig for sacked MMP workers. The Picket,
Jordan St, Liverpool.
Tickets: [email protected]
16 June
NUT Local Associations for National Action on
Pensions The Quaker Meeting House 22 School Lane
Liverpool. Registration 10:30 AM. Conference 11:00 AM - 3:30 PM.
http://classroomteachers.blogspot.co.uk/
Protest rally at Stroud Hospital, 12noon June:
http://post.ly/5vRRy
13-15 July
Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival
14 July
Durham Miners Gala
02 September
Longest strike in British history!
http://tinyurl.com/6m278er
20 October
TUC Mass demonstration -
http://tinyurl.com/cemh5a6
