Month: December 2013
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Victory for CoNEL cleaners
Statement from Steve Sweeney, Regional Organiser GMB, about CONEL cleaners dispute: Cleaners at CoNEL have won an important victory in their fight against 23% cuts to their working time and for the London Living Wage. The cleaners, who are contracted to Ocean have been in dispute over the cuts and have organised a series of…
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NSSN 173: What was the REAL 2013?
As our supporters attempt to wind down and use the holiday season to recharge their batteries, we’ll be faced with a barrage of newspaper articles and TV programmes reviewing 2013. (Though we are aware there are strikes over the period, including FBU, Unite St Mungos and more). No doubt, the Tory media will be proclaiming…
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NSSN Southern Region Conference
NSSN SOUTHERN REGION CONFERENCE hosted by UNITE Bracknell Building the Fightback against Austerity Speakers: Alex Gordon (RMT) Rob Williams (NSSN) Saturday 18th January 2014, 2pm to 5pm Priestwood Community Centre, Bracknell. Dear Brother/Sister, If you are a rank and file trade unionist or anti-cuts campaigner you are cordially invited to our NSSN Southern Region conference. The…
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NSSN 172: Enough is enough…no work ‘til we drop!
Osborne’s Autumn Statement last Thursday, not only brought forward by ten years the new retirement age of first 68 and then 69 – it will be open-ended with it being regularly reviewed in line with life expectancy. This poses workers getting their state pensions into their 70s and because many occupational pensions use this age…
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IWGB Rally – ‘Justice for Christmas’
IWGB House of Commons Rally NSSN Chair Rob Williams will also be speaking at the rally.
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PCS on Chancellor’s Autumn Statement
Republished from PCS website The chancellor has today announced more cuts in government departmental budgets and an increase in state pension age. George Osborne said in his autumn statement that UK state pension age is to increase more rapidly to 68, making it one of the highest in the developed world. State pension age will…
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NSSN 171: All out to defend education
On 3 December university and college workers took successful strike action. This strike day involves UCU, Unison and Unite members working in universities who struck on 31 October, now joined by further education (FE) members of UCU in England and higher education (HE) members of EIS in Scotland. In HE, the employers’ organisation UCEA returned to negotiations…
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INTERVIEW: Portuguese posties fight privatization
João Isqueiro is member of Executive of SNTCT – The Portuguese Postal and Telecommunication Workers National Union spoke to Francisco Raposo on behalf of the NSSN Francisco Raposo – Postal workers from CTT – Portuguese public company of postal services – are involved in a struggle process for a long time now. Can you describe the…
