Tag: lobby
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NSSN 742: Lobby TUC General Council to #NameTheDate for a national demo against Starmer’s cuts
The NSSN is calling a lobby of the next meeting of the TUC General Council on Wednesday 22nd October to demand that the policy passed at TUC Congress earlier this month is implemented to call a national demo against Starmer’s cuts. TUC Congress voted for motions from the TUC Disabled Workers Conference and Trades Councils…
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NSSN 738: Come to the NSSN TUC Congress Rally this Sunday and lobby for action against Starmer’s austerity!
NSSN TUC Congress Rally & Lobby – 1pm Sunday 7th September in The Old Ship Hotel I Brighton Facebook event Confirmed speakers so far: Steve Gillan POA General Secretary, Sarah Woolley BFAWU General Secretary, Mick Whelan ASLEF General Secretary, Ian Lawrence NAPO General Secretary, Steve Wright FBU General Secretary, Unite striking binworkers from Birmingham &…
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NSSN 736: Come to the NSSN Rally at TUC Congress and lobby for action
NSSN TUC Congress Rally & Lobby – 1pm Sunday 7th September in The Old Ship Hotel I Brighton Facebook event Confirmed speakers so far: Steve Gillan POA General Secretary, Sarah Woolley BFAWU General Secretary, Mick Whelan ASLEF General Secretary, Ian Lawrence NAPO General Secretary, Unite striking binworkers from Birmingham & Sheffield, Paula Peters DPAC. The…
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NSSN 732: NSSN Conference says “Lobby the TUC for a national demo against Starmer’s austerity”
The NSSN Conference on Saturday 5th July brought together hundreds of union reps and members together to support the strikes that are taking place and to discuss how we organise against the austerity from Starmer’s Labour Government. Fighting union leaders and striking workers spoke from our platform, followed by a full discussion from the floor.…
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NSSN 619: 500,000 workers out on February 1st #StrikeTogether
The strike wave will take a major step up on Wednesday 1st February when 5 unions will take national strike action – NEU, PCS, UCU, ASLEF and RMT. Up to half a million workers will be out and will be joined by the growing number of localised disputes. It will be the single biggest…
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NSSN 617: Fight Together to defend the #RightToStrike
The Tories under Sunak have signalled their intention to bring in yet more anti-union legislation on the back of all those Conservative restrictions from Thatcher, Major, Cameron, May and Johnson that already make UK trade union laws the most undemocratic in Western Europe. Workers are being squeezed by the biggest cost of living crisis in…
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NSSN 614: Health workers join the strike wave
This week, as the end of the year nears, the developing strike wave against the cost of living squeeze reaches a new stage with hundreds of thousands of workers walking out. Alongside further national strikes by the RMT on the railway and CWU in Royal Mail as well as growing localised disputes, health workers start…
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NSSN 612: Strike wave escalates with November 30th walkout
This Wednesday is yet another significant day of co-ordinated strike action. CWU members in Royal Mail will be taking further action, and for the 3rd time they will be out on the same day as UCU members in higher education. And for the first time, the NEU will be out in 77 Sixth Form Colleges.…
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NSSN 611: Strike wave grows as Tories unleash further austerity
Hunt’s Autumn Statement is a further tightening of the cost of living squeeze that is crippling workers as inflation jumps to over 14%. Workers’ living standards are facing the biggest drop since the Second World War. But workers are fighting back, with the most widespread strike wave for decades, across all sectors. This is the…
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610: Liverpool dockers win as strike wave spreads to public sector
The NSSN sends our solidarity and congratulations to Unite and its members at Peel Ports in Liverpool, who have secured an inflation-busting pay deal after taking strike action over nearly two months. At the same time, the growing strike wave is spreading to the public sector. Just days after the UCU announced that its members…
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NSSN 609: UCU calls national strike in HE
The NSSN sends solidarity to the UCU as it calls a national strike involving 70,000 of its members in higher education. UCU members have already been taking action in further education. These strikes come as unions in the public sector join the rising strike wave, with other education unions launching industrial action ballots. In addition,…
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NSSN 608: Join this week’s #ToriesOut demonstrations
The NSSN is mobilising for the two demonstrations this week against the Tories, the cost of living crisis and their plans for further union restrictions. New Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who was Boris Johnson’s Chancellor, will also look to make workers and their families pay for the crisis. We face massive austerity and the threat…
