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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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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…
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607: Turn TUC lobby Parliament into #ToriesOut demo!
The Tories are imploding. Truss has been forced out, triggering another leadership election. But 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 of even more anti-union laws to try and stop us taking…
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NSSN 605: Come to NSSN pre-TUC Congress Action Summit this Sunday
NSSN pre-TUC Congress Action Summit this Sunday – 1pm 16th October Holiday Inn Brighton Facebook event. For transport details, email [email protected]. Let us know if your union/organisation would like a stall at our event It is a hybrid event – to allow those who can’t make it to Brighton to take part online. Zoom details:- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88529269348 Meeting…
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NSSN 604: Tory U-Turn shows they can be defeated #StrikeTogether
Last weekend saw mass strikes and big solidarity protests in many towns and cities, including on Sunday at the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham. Last Saturday, the escalating strike wave saw its biggest day of action so far. There is fury that in the midst of the spiralling cost of living crisis, Truss’s Tory Government…
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NSSN 603: Support the October 1st strikes & protests
This coming Saturday, the strike wave will have its biggest impact so far. 115,000 CWU members in Royal Mail (who are also out the day before) will be joined on the picket lines by over 50,000 rail workers in RMT, Aslef, TSSA and Unite. And 1st October will also see 2,500 Unite dockers in Liverpool…
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602: Workers strike back – come to NSSN TUC Congress Action Summit
The strike wave is back on. On 30 September, 115,000 CWU members in Royal Mail will recommence their action and the next day 50,000 rail workers will join them in RMT and Aslef. And 1 October will also see 2,500 dockers in Liverpool and Felixstowe in the midst of their weeks of action. These strikes…
