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Statement Agreed at
NSSN Conference 2011
17 June
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.
NSSN Conference also
endorses the decision of the NSSN Steering Committee on May 7th
to organise a march to, and lobby of the TUC Conference on Sunday 11th
September to call on the TUC to coordinate strike action of public
sector unions to defend public sector pensions. |
