Tag: COVID-19

  • NSSN 562: Support the RMT Night Tube strike

    NSSN 562: Support the RMT Night Tube strike

    We headline this week’s bulletin with the strike called by the RMT on London Underground from this Friday 26th November. Please support the action To make donations to the hardship fund – account details: account name – Terence O’Neill; sort code: 60-83-71 account number: 89481380 or send cheques to RMT, Unity House, 39 Chalton St,…

  • NSSN 542: Strike victories show fighting unions vital

    NSSN 542: Strike victories show fighting unions vital

    The NSSN sends our solidarity and congratulations to members of Unite and NEU after their members won important victories after both sets of workers took week-long strike action. This shows again that organised fighting unions are the most important protection workers can have to defend their livelihoods and keep themselves and their families safe. This…

  • NSSN 530: British Gas workers strike for 43rd day against lock-out

    NSSN 530: British Gas workers strike for 43rd day against lock-out

    This week’s NSSN bulletin leads with the heroic fight of the GMB members in British Gas against the imposition of new terms & conditions through Fire and Rehire. They will be taking their 43rd day of strike action this Wednesday 14th April. We continue to give our full support and solidarity to the workers and…

  • 529: Support PCS DVLA strike 6-9 April over Covid concerns

    529: Support PCS DVLA strike 6-9 April over Covid concerns

    This week’s NSSN bulletin headlines with the 4-day PCS strike starting today at DVLA after over 500 cases of Covid were reported there since September. The NSSN gives our full solidarity and support to PCS and its members at DVLA as they fight for workplace safety PCS website: (1 Apr) Support PCS members at DVLA…

  • NSSN 528: Shrewsbury Pickets overturn convictions

    NSSN 528: Shrewsbury Pickets overturn convictions

    “The NSSN sends our congratulations & solidarity to the Shrewsbury Pickets and their families. We should particularly remember those such as Des Warren, who passed away during this heroic struggle for justice. There should now be a trade union inquiry into the framing of the workers and the cover up. This is needed for this…

  • NSSN 522: Bus drivers strike back in Manchester & London

    NSSN 522: Bus drivers strike back in Manchester & London

    This week’s NSSN bulletin headlines with strike action by bus drivers in Unite the union in Manchester and London that begins next week. Please support these workers. Also, please support victimised bus union reps – Judith Katera and Moe Muhsin Manir in Unite in London and Declan Clune in RMT in Hampshire Manchester Go Ahead North…

  • NSSN 520: Tories U-turn on plan to attack workers’ rights

    NSSN 520: Tories U-turn on plan to attack workers’ rights

    The NSSN celebrates the Tory u-turn over their proposed review of employment laws and regulations post-Brexit. Despite their denials, this would have looked at a whole number of workers’ rights. But the fact that they have been forced to retreat, without a real mobilisation of the trade union movement, shows the weakness of this Tory…

  • NSSN 515: As 2020 ends, workers keep fighting

    NSSN 515: As 2020 ends, workers keep fighting

    This is our last scheduled weekly bulletin of the year. A year where workers have been fighting during the COVID pandemic for their lives and livelihoods. We have seen continuing disputes over workplace safety and now increasingly we are seeing workers fight the bosses’ offensive against our jobs, terms & conditions and pay. Included in…

  • NSSN 512: Fight together against the Tory Pay Freeze

    NSSN 512: Fight together against the Tory Pay Freeze

    This week’s NSSN bulletin opposes the proposed pay freeze that is expected to be announced by Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak this Wednesday.  NSSN Chair Rob Williams said, “Just as the Tories are exposed over giving COVID contracts to their cronies and a day after a big rise in defence spending is announced, millions of public…

  • 511: #RightToPicket protected – support Optare workers

    511: #RightToPicket protected – support Optare workers

      The NSSN sends our solidarity to Unite and its members on strike at Optare in Yorkshire after the union won a legal challenge to the use of COVID rules by police to disperse legal picket lines. This demonstrates the vital importance of the labour and trade union movement retaining its ability to organise during…

  • NSSN 509: Support education workers in new lockdown  

    NSSN 509: Support education workers in new lockdown  

    The Prime Minister and his floundering cabinet have finally reacted to daily news of startling rises in the rate of COVID cases in England but once again ordinary people have been left trying to fathom out the exceptions to Lockdown 2. But those who expected to see some kind of common sense will stay disappointed;…

  • NSSN 503: Support the strikes!

    NSSN 503: Support the strikes!

    This week’s NSSN bulletin shines the spotlight on the increasing number of union disputes as bosses attack jobs and pay, terms & conditions. An increasing number are using brutal ‘fire and re-hire’ methods. These actions include the indefinite strike by PCS members at Tate continues, which will next week go over 40 days. Leigh and…