Author: NSSN
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Bulletin 121 After the TUC lobby….keep the pressure up for a 24 hour general strike!
Up to a 100 of us braved the freezing cold outside Congress House on Tuesday to lobby the TUC General Council. We heard the real voice of workers on what’s needed to resist the ConDem austerity offensive. Our open mike saw shop stewards, branch reps, union NEC members, community campaigners and young fighters tell of the […]
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Fighting Blacklisting – Interview with Dave Smith
National Shop Stewards Network chair, Rob Williams, recently interviewed Dave Smith, a blacklisted construction worker. At last there has been publicity about the disgraceful blacklisting of workers, largely because Ian Kerr of the Consulting Association (CA) had to go in front of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee which is investigating these anti-union practices. Dave explains […]
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TESCO DRIVERS BLOCKADE DONCASTER DISTRIBUTION CENTRE
With confidence high after Saturday’s march and picket, Doncaster Tesco drivers upped the anti today in their dispute with Tesco/Stobarts. At around 10-30am, strikers split into two pickets and blockaded both gates to the distribution depot stopping lorries from coming in or out. Waggons were told “Shut today” and waved on to stack up on the […]
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Reply to ‘The British have no fight in them anymore’
Dear editor Nick Cohen (“The British have no fight in them any more” – 9/12/12) would have us believe that the resistance of working people is next to non-existent in the face of the ConDem austerity offensive. Nick hasn’t been the first with this pessimistic view. In November 2010, on the eve of George Osborne’s […]
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On the first day of Christmas, Tesco gave to me …..THE SACK!”
On the first day of Christmas, Tesco gave to me …..THE SACK!” That was the message delivered by Doncaster Tesco drivers on Saturday to customers urging them not to shop at the biggest Tesco store in town. “On the dole for Christmas” is the “present” facing 180 Unite members, recently outsourced by Tesco to Eddie […]
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120 – Can they have all the cake & eat it?!
Bulletin 120 – Can they really have all the cake & eat it? As we face another barrage of cuts from Osborne’s Autumn Statement – a ritualistic exercise in re-cutting the national cake! The Coalition makes out they’ve got goodies for all – to ease the pain they envisage lasting at least until 2018. The […]
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Crossrail ‘blacklisting’ probe called for by Unite – press release
We thought it was worth putting this out in full given the sacking of Frank Morris and others over H&S concerns which NSSN and others have supported. From UNITE: Crossrail ‘blacklisting’ probe called for by Unite Claims that Crossrail contractors have met with an organisation dedicated to compiling blacklists of construction workers needs to be […]
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Lincoln Prison will not be turned into a Immigration Removal Centre!
Lincoln Prison will no longer face conversion to an Immigration Removal Centre, the UK Borders Agency announced today. The conversion could have resulted in job cuts and added hundreds more to the 3,500 people who are currently unemployed in Lincoln. This follows a campaign by Public and Commercial Services union and the Prison Officers Association, […]
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Blacklist Support Group Report on Ian Kerr
This is a full report FROM Blacklist Support Group <[email protected]> “One revelation after another today as convicted blacklister Ian Kerr broke his silence today and gave nearly 4 hours worth of evidence to the Scottish Affairs Select Committee investigation into blacklisting. Among the more jaw dropping evidence: Kerr has been a full-time blacklister since 1969 – previously […]
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RMT Cleaners strike over low pay
Low-paid cleaners employed by the Carlisle company on the TransPennine Express (TPE) contract protested outside TPE’s office in Manchester as part of their strike on 30th November. The cleaners work for extremely low wages often in freezing cold conditions, so much so that they said it was warmer on the 8am protest than it had been on the station last night! […]
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Tesco Drivers move to a INDEFINITE Strike 6th Dec!
180 Tesco drivers, members of Unite the union, at the supermarket giant’s distribution hub in Doncaster have announced an indefinite strike from Thursday 6th December, after they voted to reject the latest “completely unsatisfactory” offer to settle the long-running dispute. Having already taken 8 days of strike action, a planned 4-day strike was suspended to […]
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Petition – TUC must name the date!
[emailpetition id=”1″] The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is organising a lobby of the TUC General Council when it meets on December 11th. It will assemble from 8.30am at Congress House in Great Russell Street. NSSN national chair Rob Williams said, “Up to a thousand union activists came to our lobby of the TUC […]
