Month: April 2015
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240: Celebrate 125th May Day
Youth Fight for Jobs is sending solidarity and May Day greetings in this week’s NSSN e-bulletin. “May 1st is International Workers’ Day. This year, let’s make it £10/hr day! Youth Fight for Jobs, the BFAWU Bakers’ Union and others in the Fast Food Rights campaign encourage trades councils to put raising the minimum wage to…
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NSSN 239: Workers Memorial Day April 28
Worldwide some 1 million workers lose their lives in workplace accidents and ill health through exposure to dangerous substances every year, more than lose their lives through war! It’s almost 2 years since the world witnessed the collapse of the factory in Bangladesh and over 1200 lives lost. Some of the companies who were only…
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NSSN 238: Join the 15 April global fast food worker protest
Statement from BFAWU bakers’ union:- On 15 April 2015, thousands of fast food workers will lead a mass movement of around 60,000 low waged workers striking across the United States to raise the issue of poor wages and the lack of trade union rights within their industry. At the same time, fast food workers and…
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237: Bromley Council workers strike against cuts & union attacks
Hundreds of Bromley Council workers took 2 days of strike action on April 7th and 8th against the Tory council’s cuts, privatisation of services and attacks on union facilities. This shows why employers are attacking union rights – to try and hamstring unions in the face of vicious cuts. But the workers from Unite are…
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NSSN 236: Unison special conference votes for new pay claim
Since the local government pay strike was called off last October, the NSSN e-bulletin has commented on developments. We salute the delegates at the Unison local government special conference on 24th March who voted to submit a new pay claim for 2015-2016. The special conference was called following an initiative from the North West region…
