Tag: 24 General strike
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414: Tory crisis – TUC & unions mobilise to force general election!
From Linda Taaffe NSSN national secretary:- Emergency General Council of the TUC urgently needed This austerity big business government is hanging by a thread. The Tories are tearing themselves apart. They don’t know which way to turn. Theresa May is weak. Her only strength is the fact that there is no realistic alternative Tory leader. …
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413: Teaching unions start indicative ballot on pay & funding
This week, we headline with the consultative ballot by teaching unions. This is from the NEU:- Hands up because enough is enough! Recently, we set the Government six tests for school funding before the Chancellor’s autumn Budget. This was the Government’s opportunity to change course and properly fund the schools our children deserve. Instead, the…
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412: Support Hants Prysmian Cables & Systems strike
The second 48 hour strike at Prysmian Cables & Systems in Eastleigh, Hampshire will go ahead tomorrow and Thursday, November 7-8 over a derisory pay offer below inflation. These are on top of the five days of strike action already taken since 26 September This is a report from last week’s first two day stoppage…
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NSSN 411: 30,000 march for Scottish teachers’ pay
For the second successive week, we headline the NSSN bulletin with a mass mobilisation of Scottish workers. Last Saturday, 30,000 teachers and supporters marched in Glasgow as part of the pay campaign by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) teaching union. The EIS demonstration took place just days after the incredible 8,000-strong Unison and GMB…
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NSSN 410: Glasgow Women March and Strike for Equal Pay
This week, we headline our bulletin with the strike on October 22-23 by 8,000 workers in Unison and the GMB in Glasgow City Council. The NSSN gives our full support and solidarity to the workers and their unions. This is the Unison statement:- Thousands of Glasgow’s women march for equal pay (23 October 2018)…
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NSSN 409: RMT steps up action on the trains and tube
This week we headline with escalating action by RMT members in disputes against Driver Only Operation on Northern Rail and South Western Railway as well as on the Piccadilly Line on London Underground. We stand shoulder to shoulder with the RMT, who initiated the NSSN in 2006 under the then General Secretary the late…
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408: Glasgow council workers to strike for equal pay justice
Statement from Glasgow Unison Branch:- Glasgow Equal Pay – Why we are striking. You will be aware that Glasgow school support for learning staff, child development officers, school administration workers, home carers, cleaners, caterers and other council workers are being called out on strike on 23/24 October in a dispute over the council’s failure…
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407: Support Hospitality strike this Thursday #FFS410
The National Shop Stewards Network is proud to support the co-ordinated strike this Thursday October 4th by restaurant and hospitality workers. Two of our affiliated unions the BFAWU and Unite are prominent in the action, alongside the GMB, IWW and IWGB. We believe that these struggles are giving workers in these sectors confidence to fight…
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NSSN 406: Workers strike back against NHS privatisation
Unite members in the NHS in both Kent and Yorkshire are striking this week over being transferred into wholly owned subsidiaries. This is despite this practice of privatisation supposedly being ‘paused’. Health workers have won victories in Mid Yorkshire, Esk & Wear Valley and Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Trusts and Unison members have…
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NSSN 405: POA members take action over prison safety
The National Shop Stewards Network sends solidarity to the POA union whose members took part in protests outside prisons last Friday over the massive safety concerns that the union has for their members and other staff and inmates as a result of Tory cuts. The POA have disgracefully had their democratic right to take…
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404: NSSN TUC Rally – general election to ‘Get Tories Out!’
The National Shop Stewards Network rally last Sunday September 9th before the start of TUC Congress was a tremendous event with over 200 trade union activists attending alongside congress delegates. TUC was held in Manchester to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first congress in 1868 and the NSSN rally took place in the…
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403: Come to NSSN Rally at TUC in Manchester
In the year of the 150th anniversary of the TUC, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is again organising a rally before the start of TUC Congress: ‘Fight Together to Get the Tories Out!’ It will be from 1pm on Sunday September 9th in the Manchester Mechanics Institute/Conference Centre, Princess Street, M1 6DD. Leaders…
