Tag: Redundancies

  • 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…

  • London Met Unison strike against job cuts

    London Met Unison strike against job cuts

    Unison members at London Metropolitan University held a day’s strike action today. The strike was called in response to management plans announced in March to slash 165 jobs at the institution. The walkout follows on from a number of days on action short of strike by Unison members. The other union at the University, UCU,…