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Month: March 2016

  • NSSN 286: Save jobs & communities – #Nationalise Tata steel plants!

    The National Shop Stewards Network sends our support and solidarity to the thousands of steelworkers, their families and the steel unions who are trying to come to terms with the news that Tata is looking to sell off its UK steel business. This means that what should be a fundamental foundation of the economy and…

  • We won’t be fooled by Osborne’s gimmick wage! #FoolsGold protest April 1

    We won’t be fooled by Osborne’s gimmick wage! #FoolsGold protest April 1

    The Tories will be re-branding the minimum wage as National Living Wage this Friday April 1st. The 50p rise is nowhere near enough to take low-paid workers out of poverty pay and the under-25s are excluded! But we won’t be fooled by Osborne’s gimmick wage! To counter the Tory hypocrisy, a campaign is being launched…

  • NSSN 285: Tories split as IDS resigns – joint action to stop the cuts!

    Millions of workers would have enjoyed their Friday night as the news filtered through that work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith had resigned from the government because of the planned cuts to Personal Independence Payments (PIP). All those who have suffered from the brutal benefit cuts and sanctions as well as civil service workers…

  • Save BIS Sheffield – support April 9 March for Jobs

    Save BIS Sheffield – support April 9 March for Jobs

    Save BIS Sheffield – support April 9 Sheffield March for Jobs (from PCS website) 22 March 2016 Thousands of people are expected to join a PCS march through Sheffield on 9 April to protest against the loss of hundreds of jobs in the city. At the end of January the Department for Business Innovation and…

  • 284: Education unions must organise against Tory academies plan

    284: Education unions must organise against Tory academies plan

    Overnight, the Tories have announced plans to put every school in England into academy status. This is an emergency statement from NSSN supporters in the NUT:- The government’s announcement that all schools in England are to become academies is a declaration of war on comprehensive public education and national pay and conditions for teachers and…

  • 283: Join Housing Bill demo & support Junior Doctors

    283: Join Housing Bill demo & support Junior Doctors

    Thousands of people from across the country will march on Parliament to oppose the Government’s Housing and Planning Bill and demand: secure homes for all, rent controls, and homes for people not for profit. The Bill, which is currently in the House of Lords, threatens to make the UK’s housing crisis much worse, send rent…

  • Yorkshire NSSN: union reps & members share experiences

    Yorkshire NSSN: union reps & members share experiences

    The fourth annual conference of the Yorkshire Shop Stewards Network was held in Leeds on Saturday 5th March, attended by representatives from ten different trade unions from across the region. Opening the “Stop the Union Busters” morning session, Andy Budds (RMT transport union executive member) said it was no accident that it had been the…

  • NSSN 282: Model motion to build support for Junior Doctors

    NSSN 282: Model motion to build support for Junior Doctors

    BMA Junior Doctors dispute – next Wednesday March 9th, Junior Doctors will start the first of three more 48-hour strikes after the Tories announced their plan to impose the new contract latest update. The planned dates of industrial action are: 9 – 11 March: Emergency care only between 8am on Wednesday 9 March and 8am…