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NSSN 709: NEU announce indicative ballot on pay
NEU announce indicative ballot on pay (from NEU website – 9 Jan) – At a special meeting of the national executive of the National Education Union, held this week, the union has agreed to proceed with a preliminary online ballot of teacher members in England. This is to gauge the strength of feeling about the…
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NSSN 708: Support the New Year strikes!
The NSSN sends New Year greetings to all our supporters and affiliates. 2025 is starting as 2024 ended, with workers on the picket line. The NSSN will continue to report on workers’ disputes and strikes in our weekly bulletin and build support and solidarity for them. Please sign and share the following petitions:- NSSN news …
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NSSN 707: Workers end tumultuous year by continuing to take action
This is the last weekly NSSN bulletin of 2024. It has been an intense year. The hated Tories were smashed in the general election – thrown out of office by workers after 14 years of austerity, cost of living squeeze and more anti-union legislation. But the first 5 months of the new Labour government has…
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NSSN 706: Support the December Strikes!
As we near the end of the year, we continue to send solidarity to workers and their unions taking action to defend their pay, jobs and terms & conditions. We will keep building support in our weekly NSSN bulletin, where you can find information about current disputes. Solidarity! Please sign and share the following petitions:-…
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NSSN 705: Fight the jobs slaughter
This week’s NSSN bulletin headlines the struggles against the rising tide of closures and redundancies in industry and threats across the public sector. This is on the back of the closure earlier this year of the blast furnaces at Tata’s Port Talbot Steelworks. We send our support to workers facing these threats, including at the…
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NSSN 704: Support the NEU Sixth Form Colleges Strikes!
This week, we headline the NSSN bulletin with the strike by NEU members in Sixth Form Colleges on 28 November, 3 December and 4 December. Please support these strikes and all the others that are publicised in our weekly NSSN bulletins. NEU: Sixth form college strike days announced (13 Nov) – Following a resounding 97%…
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NSSN 703: Support the Strikes!
The NSSN continues to publicise the continuing action taking place. Please read this and every week’s NSSN bulletin to find information about current and ongoing disputes and please continue to send support and solidarity to workers and unions taking action, particularly those facing victimisation and strike-breaking. The NSSN demands the immediate repeal of the undemocratic…
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NSSN 702: Support striking PCS outsourced workers & reinstate sacked reps
The NSSN headlines this week’s bulletin with the ongoing disputes by outsourced members of the PCS union in government departments. We support their pay claims and agree with the demand that these workers are brought in-house. We also stand in solidarity with sacked PCS reps at HMRC Benton Park View, and support the campaign for…
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NSSN 701: We need a Workers’ Budget – make the rich pay!
The first Budget of the new Labour Government is this Wednesday 30th October. In the run-up to the Budget, Starmer and Reeves have been warning about spending limits. But the NSSN believes that after 14 years of Tory austerity and cost of living squeeze, working-class people need a programme that transforms their lives. And after…
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NSSN 700: March against the far-right this Saturday
We headline this week’s NSSN bulletin with the counter-protest to the far-right Tommy Robinson, called by Stand Up to Racism and supported by the TUC and unions, this coming Saturday 26th October in central London – assemble 11.30am Piccadilly (Regent Street/St James’s). There is a trade union bloc which will form up at the corner…
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NSSN 699: Unions must keep the pressure on for a real Workers’ New Deal
The NSSN headlines this week’s bulletin on the Labour Government’s unveiling of its Employment Rights Bill. We welcome any improvements in workers rights in this bill, which is due to come into effect in 2026. We also welcome the commitment to repeal the most recent Tory anti-union legislation, namely the Minimum Service Levels Act and…
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NSSN 698: Support the Unite Oscar Mayer strike in Wrexham against fire & rehire
The NSSN headlines this week’s bulletin in solidarity with Unite members on strike at Oscar Mayer in Wrexham against fire and rehire. NSSN supporters met up with some of the workers at yesterday’s big protest against the cut to winter fuel allowances outside Parliament. We send them and their union our support and solidarity. We…
