Month: December 2012
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We will not tolerate low pay!
“We will not tolerate low pay in this day and age, nor being treated like second rate people. We clean your trains, your stations and your depots. We mop up all the nasty stuff that no one else wants to deal with. We clean up after four million people who use the London underground system…
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Caerphilly council workers protest against bosses’ pay hike!
Over 600 council workers protested Monday and Tuesday at Caerphilly council offices against the plan by the Labour-controlled council to increase top managers’ pay by over 20% while council services and jobs are cut by 10%. Council workers, like others in the public sector, are in the third year of a pay freeze, yet their…
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Bulletin 122 – 2012 just a taster of what 2013 will look like
It would be impossible to talk about every dispute that has happened in 2012. That alone tells THE story of the last 12 months…that is that workers are fighting back against this government and the employers. A year ago this week, the NSSN called a lobby of the TUC’s Public Service Liaison Group as activists…
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When a deadline is not a deadline, One is NOT amusing!
In the last week 250 workers from One Support, an arm of the One Housing Group (OHG) have had letters from their company asking them to sign a new contracts by the 20th Dec which would see cuts of up to £8,000 per worker. The implication was that if they didn’t sign, they would no…
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Doncaster drivers give Tesco & Stobarts a bloody nose and force a climbdown
Doncaster ex-Tesco drivers, outsourced to and then sacked by Eddie Stobarts, today voted by 150-19 to accept an improved redundancy offer and end their strike. This package, whilst still only £650 for each years service, was 50% better than that drivers had been notified of only a day earlier in their redundancy letters. This climbdown…
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Bulletin 121 After the TUC lobby….keep the pressure up for a 24 hour general strike!
Up to a 100 of us braved the freezing cold outside Congress House on Tuesday to lobby the TUC General Council. We heard the real voice of workers on what’s needed to resist the ConDem austerity offensive. Our open mike saw shop stewards, branch reps, union NEC members, community campaigners and young fighters tell of the…
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Fighting Blacklisting – Interview with Dave Smith
National Shop Stewards Network chair, Rob Williams, recently interviewed Dave Smith, a blacklisted construction worker. At last there has been publicity about the disgraceful blacklisting of workers, largely because Ian Kerr of the Consulting Association (CA) had to go in front of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee which is investigating these anti-union practices. Dave explains…
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TESCO DRIVERS BLOCKADE DONCASTER DISTRIBUTION CENTRE
With confidence high after Saturday’s march and picket, Doncaster Tesco drivers upped the anti today in their dispute with Tesco/Stobarts. At around 10-30am, strikers split into two pickets and blockaded both gates to the distribution depot stopping lorries from coming in or out. Waggons were told “Shut today” and waved on to stack up on the…
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Reply to ‘The British have no fight in them anymore’
Dear editor Nick Cohen (“The British have no fight in them any more” – 9/12/12) would have us believe that the resistance of working people is next to non-existent in the face of the ConDem austerity offensive. Nick hasn’t been the first with this pessimistic view. In November 2010, on the eve of George Osborne’s…
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On the first day of Christmas, Tesco gave to me …..THE SACK!”
On the first day of Christmas, Tesco gave to me …..THE SACK!” That was the message delivered by Doncaster Tesco drivers on Saturday to customers urging them not to shop at the biggest Tesco store in town. “On the dole for Christmas” is the “present” facing 180 Unite members, recently outsourced by Tesco to Eddie…
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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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Crossrail ‘blacklisting’ probe called for by Unite – press release
We thought it was worth putting this out in full given the sacking of Frank Morris and others over H&S concerns which NSSN and others have supported. From UNITE: Crossrail ‘blacklisting’ probe called for by Unite Claims that Crossrail contractors have met with an organisation dedicated to compiling blacklists of construction workers needs to be…
