Month: September 2012
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Lobby of TUC – Report
**Breaking news** The PCS motion for more co-ordinated action has been passed TODAY! The debate on the POA motion on a general strike is tomorrow. Even before the actual NSSN lobby of the TUC for a general strike took place on Sunday 9 September, NSSN supporters had been busy discussing, debating and mobilising workers and…
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Lobby the TUC – Strike against austerity!
* BREAKING NEWS: 9.9.2012 3.25pm At the NSSN rally before we continued to do our final lobby of the TUC, it was announced, to cheers, that UNISON would be supporting the motion at TUC for a general strike. This was in addition to the GMB & NAPO. More reports and details of what we are planning next…
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Rank & File activist Re-instated!
From the Scottish Rank & File: Balfour Beatty have backed down in the face of a Rank and File backlash and have re-instated Stewart Hume as of Monday 10 September. Stewart is to start work at Chivas in Dumbarton, initially for a four week period, but work is continuing to ensure that it is permanent.…
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NUT vote YES YES for action !
By Martin Powell-Davis NUT & NSSN Steering group. The NUT National Executive meeting this afternoon welcomed the overwhelming results of our national ballots to seek to persuade the Secretary of State for Education to protect teachers’ pay and working conditions:The results for the votes covering teachers in England were: In favour of discontinuous strike action…
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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…
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Remploy Glasgow – 1st day of 4 day strike!
The first of a four day strike at Remploy Springburn in Glasgow was absolutley solid. Only one staff member crossed the picket line, a HR manager who sneaked in early. Pickets did shifts all day with no less than thirty workers manning the gates. The mood was determined but angry, especially when pickets read in…
