Tag: anti-trade union laws
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NSSN 691: Keep the pressure on to scrap the Tory anti-union laws
Tories Gone! – Fight for Workers Policies – come to the NSSN Rally & Lobby of TUC Congress – Old Ship Hotel Brighton, 1pm Sunday 8th September Speakers confirmed so far: Steve Gillan POA General Secretary, Sarah Woolley BFAWU General Secretary, Ian Lawrence NAPO General Secretary, Marion Lloyd PCS NEC (personal capacity), Suzanne Muna SHAC…
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NSSN 671: Steelworkers start strike vote to #SaveOurSteel
Date for your diaries!! 2024 NSSN Conference – Saturday 22nd June, 11am-4.30pm, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL Facebook event Steel unions ballot for action The NSSN stands in solidarity with steelworkers as steel unions begin balloting their members for industrial action. We will support any action that they take against…
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NSSN 670: Workers celebrate #IWD2024 as unions fight brutal council cuts
Date for your diaries!! 2024 NSSN Conference – Saturday 22nd June, 11am-4.30pm, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL Facebook event The NSSN sends greetings to all our supporters and affiliates as this Friday March 8th, the trade union movement celebrates International Women’s Day. We also send solidarity greetings to everyone attending…
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NSSN 668: After Welsh #SaveOurSteel demos, steel unions ballot for action
Last Saturday, the NSSN marched alongside steel unions Unite, Community and GMB and hundreds of steelworkers and their families and supporters in Port Talbot and Newport. The demonstrations were called against Tata Steel intention to make 75% of the 4,000-strong Port Talbot workforce redundant. This would also result in thousands more losing their jobs at…
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NSSN 667: March this Saturday to #SaveOurSteel plus FBU slams Tory attack on their #RightToStrike
The full version of this week’s NSSN e-bulletin no.667 can be viewed HERE – this week’s highlights include news, protests, solidarity campaigns against victimisation, strikes and industrial action ballots as well as international reports plus much more. Reports from unions do not necessarily reflect NSSN’s views. You can receive this bulletin via email or you…
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NSSN 665: After TUC Demo & ASLEF forcing LNER U-Turn, Zoom into NSSN Meeting tonight on how to defeat Tory MSL
NSSN Online Public Meeting against the new Tory anti-union Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (MSL) – 6.30pm Tuesday 30th January Zoom Meeting details:- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85010588852 Meeting ID: 850 1058 8852 About 5,000 trade unionists marched in Cheltenham last Saturday in opposition to the new Tory anti-union Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (MSL), and to…
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NSSN 663: Support 18th January Northern Ireland Public Sector General Strike
The NSSN sends our full support and solidarity to the unions and their members on strike this Thursday 18th January NIPSA General Secretary Carmel Gates: “It is within the gift of the Secretary of State to pass the money to the Department of Finance immediately and we are calling on him to do that without…
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NSSN 661: Support the Junior Doctors strikes
We send happy new year greetings to all our supporters and affiliates and our solidarity to all workers in dispute. 2024 opens up just as 2023 finished, with workers taking action against the Tory cost of living squeeze. Amongst these will be junior doctors in England in the BMA and HCSA unions, who after being…
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NSSN 659: TUC Special Congress launches campaign of defiance against Tory attack on our #RightToStrike
The NSSN welcomes the decision of the TUC Special Congress last Saturday to agree a strategy to oppose the new Tory anti-union legislation, the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (MSL). This is a blatant attack on workers’ right to strike by instructing unions to police their own strikes, even organising their own strike-breaking! The…
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NSSN 658: Lobby Special TUC Congress for fighting strategy against Tory attack on the right to strike
The NSSN welcomes the Special TUC Congress this coming Saturday 9th December, called in response to the new Tory anti-union legislation – Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023. Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union general secretary and TUC President, said: “The Act is a blatant attempt to ban strikes and prevent workers defending their jobs, wages…
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NSSN 657: Tories move forward with MSL attack on the right to strike – Fighting strategy needed at Special TUC Congress
The Tories are moving on with their new further anti-union legislation, the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (MSL). Just today, education unions report on the intent of the Government to set minimum service levels in that sector. This is being seen in other areas as well, and yesterday the Tories progressed a Code of…
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NSSN 656: Support the GMB Coventry Amazon Black Friday strike
The NSSN sends our support and solidarity to Amazon workers taking further strike action this coming Friday. The workers at the Coventry warehouse in the GMB union have been an inspiration to the whole trade union movement, and a beacon to all those in this sector who are not yet organised in a union. Get…
