Tag: Nationalisation

  • 486:  Defend jobs & contracts – fight bosses’ offensive

    486: Defend jobs & contracts – fight bosses’ offensive

    This week’s NSSN bulletin highlights a new sinister stage of the Coronavirus pandemic: an increasing number of companies taking advantage of the economic paralysis to announce closures, redundancies and the threat of these to demand reductions of workers’ pay and worsening of terms and conditions. This shows the reality of so-called ‘national unity’ during COVID…

  • NSSN 438: Come to NSSN Conference 2019 on July 6th

    NSSN 438: Come to NSSN Conference 2019 on July 6th

      This year’s National Shop Stewards Network Conference is on Saturday July 6th in London. It is open to everyone in the labour and trade union and anti-cuts movements. Come and take part in the biggest annual gathering of rank and file trade unionists. Hear from some of the biggest union struggles such as the…

  • NSSN 325: NSSN public meeting this Thursday – “Nationalise Tata to guarantee jobs & pensions”

    NSSN 325: NSSN public meeting this Thursday – “Nationalise Tata to guarantee jobs & pensions”

      Last April, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) called a protest in Port Talbot as fears grew about the future of its steelworks. Its owner Tata was looking to break up and sell off much of its UK operations. Over 200 local people demonstrated behind our slogan ‘Nationalise Tata to save the steelworks, jobs…

  • 287: Build pressure to #NationaliseTata – keep furnaces firing!’

    287: Build pressure to #NationaliseTata – keep furnaces firing!’

    15,000 steel jobs are on the line but the call to nationalise Tata is growing and the pressure on Cameron is building! Over the last few days, politicians of all parties in Cardiff and London are moving their positions but we have to keep the heat on them. Last Saturday, hundreds came on a ‘Nationalise…

  • NSSN 286: Save jobs & communities – #Nationalise Tata steel plants!

    The National Shop Stewards Network sends our support and solidarity to the thousands of steelworkers, their families and the steel unions who are trying to come to terms with the news that Tata is looking to sell off its UK steel business. This means that what should be a fundamental foundation of the economy and…

  • NSSN 170 – Fight attacks on Jobs & Pay on the Tube!

    NSSN 170 – Fight attacks on Jobs & Pay on the Tube!

    This week, we re-produce a statement from RMT General Secretary Bob Crow after the announcement of massive job cuts on London Underground (LUL) and the further threat to the living standards of tube workers. The NSSN appeals to all trade unions to give full support to the unions and their members on LUL Hear Bob…

  • NSSN 167: 20th anniversary of rail privatisation

    NSSN 167: 20th anniversary of rail privatisation

    On 5 November 1993 John Major’s Tories passed the Railways Act to privatise British Rail, opening an era of public transport chaos and fragmentation in Britain. Rail privatisation is a grotesque ‘corporate welfare’ binge for a herd of gruesome Fat Cats, some well-known like Richard Branson, others less so like the shadowy hedge funds and…