Month: September 2014
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NSSN 211 – support the 3-day rolling pay strike October 13-15!
The next phase of the strikes to break the ConDem pay freeze will start in under 3 weeks’ time. The decision of yesterday’s PCS NEC ensures that up to a million and half public sector workers from Unison, PCS, Unite, GMB, UCU and NIPSA will be striking in 3 consecutive days of action. The health…
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NSSN BULLETIN 210: Time to make a stand
When the dust settles and the movement takes a look back at the important business at 2014 TUC, it may well be an uncontroversial motion, carried unanimously, which takes on the mantle of being the most important. It’s passing didn’t merit a TUC press release, but the Bakers’ Union’s call for a £10 an hour…
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NSSN 209 – Video of NSSN lobby of the TUC
Last Sunday September 7th, 150 trade union activists came to the NSSN rally before the start of the TUC Conference in Liverpool and then lobbied delegates. They listened to union general secretaries – Ronnie Draper BFAWU bakers’ union, Steve Gillan POA and Ian Lawrence NAPO and Chris Baugh PCS assistant general secretary alongside Roy Bentham…
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Support London bus driver’s demo
A London Bus driver Unite London bus drivers are having a demonstration on Thursday 11th September. We will assemble at 1100 am at Bressenden Place, SW1, near Victoria station and we will march down to Parliament. Since privatisation twenty years ago, London Buses have been divided up between more than a dozen different operating companies. …
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208 – Come to NSSN rally at TUC:All out together October 14!
The 2014 NSSN conference agreed that the Network will hold a public rally at the TUC Congress in Liverpool to lobby delegates to keep up the pressure for further co-ordinated strikes – 2pm Sunday September 7th in Jury’s Hotel opposite Echo Arena conference centre in Albert Dock. This year’s TUC Conference meets as public sector…
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Romford Sparks win after Blockade
15 electricians working for T.Clarke via an agency at the Network Rail Operating Centre construction site have won a fantastic victory. Last week, they set up a Unite shop and elected two reps as they sought direct employment with Clarkes after being the next in a long line of workers to suffer from the ‘Umbrella…
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VIDEO: Sparks blockade Tommy Clarke site in Romford
At a Romford rail station site in east London last week, 15 agency construction workers who were suffering being paid via the umbrella company scam called a Unite official to the site. They were seeking help in putting forward their demand that they be employed directly by the building services contractor company T. Clarke. In a meeting…
