Tag: poa
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120 – Can they have all the cake & eat it?!
Bulletin 120 – Can they really have all the cake & eat it? As we face another barrage of cuts from Osborne’s Autumn Statement – a ritualistic exercise in re-cutting the national cake! The Coalition makes out they’ve got goodies for all – to ease the pain they envisage lasting at least until 2018. The…
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NSSN to lobby TUC General Council on December 11th
The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is organising a lobby of the TUC General Council when it meets on December 11th. It will assemble from 9.30am at Congress House in Great Russell Street. NSSN national chair Rob Williams said, “Up to a thousand union activists came to our lobby of the TUC conference in Brighton…
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N14 workers in Europe take action against austerity – TUC name the day for a general strike in Britain!
N14 workers in Europe take action against austerity – TUC name the day for a general strike in Britain! Many thanks for this report from Alex Gordon President of the RMT:On 14 November workers are taking coordinated, general strike action in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy for the first time as part of a European…
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116 – Selling off everything we own?
Over the course of the last few years the public sector has faced a sustained attack. Making public sector workers work longer and pay more for less pension. Imposing a real terms pay cut by freezing pay for two years followed by a 1% pay cap. Cutting hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs. Increasing…
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NSSN Bulletin 107
From Sunday the TUC holds its 2012 congress. So divided is the Con-Dem coalition that at times it seems a strong gust of wind could blow them over as they argue over a third runway at Heathrow or House of Lords reform. Yet this is the government that has implemented billions of pounds worth of cuts, sacked…
