Month: June 2014
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Pick up £10Now T-shirts at NSSN Conference
The NSSN is using its 2014 conference on Saturday July 5th to help build the growing campaign for a £10 per hour minimum wage. Ginger Jentzen from the victorious Seattle $15Now struggle will be telling hundreds of trade union and anti-cuts activists about a campaign that is now a beacon for millions of low-paid workers…
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Tyneside Safety Glass strikers demonstrate
With a tremendous show of strength around 200 Tyneside Safety Glass (TSG) strikers demonstrated on Gateshead’s Team Valley Trading Estate. The strikers marched between the companies two factories. The industrial estate was deafened by a cacophony of vuvuzalas as a sea of red Unite union banners swept down the Teams Valley. Everyone agreed this…
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NSSN 198 – The July 10 pay strike…….IS ON!!
Come to the NSSN Conference on July 5th “Strike together for a pay rise” Its official – Unison’s local government workers have voted to strike on July 10th against the ConDem pay freeze (read here). This raises the prospect of well over a million public sector workers striking together in a ‘Coalition of the Willing’…
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Support the EDF workers – striking again!
EDF ENERGY – “EXTREMELY DISHONOURABLE FELLOWS” Unite has come up with this new way to describe the energy company which has failed to honour an agreement made back in 2011. Incredibly, the multi million profit making company now claims that when it signed a pay deal with the Unite trade union in 2011, it had…
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NSSN 197: Support the Fire-fighters pension strikes!
NSSN supporters all over the country visited the FBU picket lines at fire stations giving solidarity to these workers and their union when they took the absolutely solid action last Thursday. Fire Brigades Union members are striking again against attacks on their pension scheme which will mean they pay £4000 more for the same or…
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Ginger Jentzen from Seattle $15WON to speak at NSSN 2014!
NSSN 196: Seattle $15WON campaigner speaks at NSSN Conference! The NSSN is delighted to announce that a Ginger Jentzen from the victorious $15Now campaign that has lifted the minimum wage to $15 per hour in Seattle will address the NSSN annual conference on July 5th. Undoubtedly, the election last year of Kshama Sawant of Socialist…
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Occupational Therapists to walk out against bullying
Unite members working as Occupational Therapists in Greenwich, London, will be out on strike again on 11th and 12th June in protest at bullying, harassment and victimisation. The strike was sparked by the suspension of one of our members the day after she made a grievance complaint about harassment and bullying. The member in question…
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Mark Harding victory & indefinite UCU Lambeth strike
This week we take the unusual step of headlining with two disputes. We salute the indefinite strike by workers at Lambeth College and hope that the tremendous victory of Mark Harding and his union the RMT will be an inspiration to them, the Unite One Housing convenor Bryan Kennedy as his members take strike action…
