Building a network of trade union activists across the country
Support for the network from trade union bodies; click here |
NSSN Chair Dave Chapple's speech to the Right to Work Conference, Manchester, January 30, 2010. View the video
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For justice in the workplace, workers' rights, solidarity and equality - trade union freedom |
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Disputes and CampaignsUnison members in Darlington campaign against council cuts. Click here for day-to-day news of pickets, marches, etc., here for news about disputes and campaigns, and here for news of victimised trade unionists |
Events |
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Trade union reps from across Britain gathered in London last year to discuss founding a grass roots network capable of mobilising trade unionists to fight for workers' rights. Called by the RMT transport workers' union the meeting was supported by the TGWU, CWU, PCS, NUJ, NUM, CYWU, FBU, POa and BFAWU. On 7 July, a Founding Conference brought together hundreds of shop stewards and other trade union activists. Successful workshop discussions enabled delegates to examine the range of problems facing trade unionists today - and plan for the future. As well as building solidarity with current disputes - with postal workers, civil servants, on pay and pensions, defending public services, the conference set itself the task of organising a range of regional meetings to extend grass roots organisation. |
| Network Documents |
Report of the Third Annual Conference, London, 27 June 2009. plus comments from delegates Reports from the Second Annual Conference, London, 28 June 2008 Building the shop stewards movement
- A discussion document Statement on the Lindsey Oil Refinery dispute (April 2009)
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Network Bulletins
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The Network Steering Group has set up an information
list to circulate details of our conference and solidarity activity.
To subscribe to the list send an email to shopstewardsnet-subscribe@lists.riseup.net |
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Report on the North East Shop Stewards Network |
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Contact us |
See the list of Steering Committee Members 2009 with contact details For further information get in touch at info@shopstewards.net West Midlands Shop Stewards Network is on http://groups.google.com/groups/wmssn North East Shop Stewards Network is on www.nessn.org.uk
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Restore Trade Union Rights! Click here for RMT statement on European Court of Justice rulings |
| Publications |
What's Happening? The Truth About Work ... & The Myth of Work - Life Balance Click here for information and order form Flying Pickets: The 1972 Builders' Strike and the Shrewsbury Trials Click here for information An Account of the Labour and Socialist Movement in Bristol, by Samson Bryher (1929). Republished 2008. Click here for information and ordering. Ghost Dancers, Part 3 of David Dougless's histrilogy Stardust and Coaldust. Click here for a description and here for a view of the cover |
| Trade union history | Democracy and central control in union mergers: Ernie Bevin and the creation of the T&GWU. Record of a workshop held at the South West TUC Regional Conference, Croyde Bay, Devon, 26 April 2008. For the report, click here. |
| News from the US | Report of a conference organised by Labor Notes (US). Click here for the text. |
| Download and print the leaflet about the network (includes affiliation form) |
Sponsor our work - suggested minimum £50
(Cheques made payable to "National Shop Stewards Network")
Send money and details to -
NSSN, PO Box 58262, London N1P 1ET
National Shop Stewards Network Founding BasisA National Shop Stewards Network should be set up on the following basis: 1. Participation and support is a matter for individual TUC affiliated trade unions. 2. The National Shop Stewards Network will be made up of bona fide rank and file TUC affiliated trade union workplace representatives. The participation of full time trade union officials would be as observers with speaking rights. 3. It would not encroach on the established organisation and recruitment activity or interfere in the internal affairs and elections of TUC affiliated trade unions or the functions of the TUC. 4. The aim of the Network would be • To offer support to TUC affiliated trade unions in their campaigns and industrial disputes; • To offer support to existing workplace committees and trades councils. We support the establishment of a steering group of ten trade unionists from this conference. The role of this steering group would be to organise a formal delegate conference in the spring of 2007, open to all TUC affiliated trade union shop stewards, to establish a National Shop Stewards Network as outlined on the basis of points 1-4 above. |
