This NSSN Conference applauds the NSSN intervention on the TUC March 26th demonstration. The NSSN produced 40,000 flyers, 1,500 placards and held an alternative stage – all calling for a public/private sector general strike to stop ALL cuts and defend pensions.

This NSSN Conference salutes those unions – PCS, NUT, ATL and UCU – who are balloting their members to take strike action on June 30th in defence of public sector pensions. About 800,000 workers could be on strike that day. We support the aim of union leaders like Mark Serwotka of PCS to ‘turn 800,000 taking action on June 30th into 4 million on strike later this year’.

Therefore, we call on all NSSN supporters to offer maximum assistance to unions in the run-up to June 30th and on the day itself. This can include assisting in organising solidarity rallies and demonstrations where they have been organised; and to help initiate and organise them where they have not yet been proposed.

We urge NSSN supporters to reach out to those in public sector unions that have not started balloting yet and to move resolutions at all levels of these unions calling on their leaderships to join in strike action to defend pensions later in the year.