Tag: £10 minimum wage

  • Fast Food Rights National Organising Day: 16 Sept

    Fast Food Rights National Organising Day: 16 Sept

    We’re Hungry for Justice: Fast Food Rights National Organising Day: 16 SEP Posted on 13/08/2015    From Fast Food Rights / Hungry for Justice websiteThe NSSN is part of the Fast Food Rights / Hungry for Justice campaign alongside the BFAWU bakers’ union, John McDonnell MP, Unite the Resistance, Disabled People Against Cuts and Youth Fight for Jobs See…

  • Work in Fast Food? Join the BFAWU – £10Now!

    Work in Fast Food? Join the BFAWU – £10Now!

    Dear Comrades   Fast food Workers in the united states are registering  victory after victory. The fight for $15 and a union is winning increases in minimum wage in cities across the states. Some of the most oppressed working class people in America are driving the political agenda of the Presidential election and forcing the…

  • A New Year’s message from BFAWU President Ian Hodson

    A New Year’s message from BFAWU President Ian Hodson

    As 2014 nears its end, we can take heart in the fact that God willing, we may only have to endure another five months or so of this nasty, vindictive and rotten government. During his time in office, the Prime Minister, David Cameron has dusted off all the old World War quotes and rolled out…

  • 222: “Its time to resist Osborne’s escalation of the cuts!”

    222: “Its time to resist Osborne’s escalation of the cuts!”

    In last week’s NSSN e-bulletin, we exposed the step change in the ConDems’ austerity offensive, announced in Osborne’s Autumn Statement. It seems our figure of £35-50billion underestimated the scale of this attack! By last weekend, it was estimated by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) that 60% of…

  • 201: NSSN rally at TUC Congress:‘Confirm the next pay strikes!’

    201: NSSN rally at TUC Congress:‘Confirm the next pay strikes!’

    The tremendous #J10 public sector strike last Thursday has changed the mood music. All of a sudden it is the government desperately re-arranging the deck chairs on its Titanic with its latest re-shuffle. As the NSSN predicted, if the unions give workers a lead, they will respond. Not only that, the action was overwhelmingly popular…

  • NSSN 199: Come to NSSN14 this Saturday, build mass July10 strike

    NSSN 199: Come to NSSN14 this Saturday, build mass July10 strike

    The line-up for the July 10 strike is now complete. The FBU has today announced that fire-fighters defending their hard won pension rights will be walking out on the same day as up to 1½ million council and school workers, teachers, civil servants and others who are resisting the continuing public sector pay freeze. Workers…