Month: October 2018

  • NSSN 411: 30,000 march for Scottish teachers’ pay

    NSSN 411: 30,000 march for Scottish teachers’ pay

    For the second successive week, we headline the NSSN bulletin with a mass mobilisation of Scottish workers. Last Saturday, 30,000 teachers and supporters marched in Glasgow as part of the pay campaign by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) teaching union. The EIS demonstration took place just days after the incredible 8,000-strong Unison and GMB…

  • NSSN 410: Glasgow Women March and Strike for Equal Pay

    NSSN 410: Glasgow Women March and Strike for Equal Pay

      This week, we headline our bulletin with the strike on October 22-23 by 8,000 workers in Unison and the GMB in Glasgow City Council. The NSSN gives our full support and solidarity to the workers and their unions. This is the Unison statement:- Thousands of Glasgow’s women march for equal pay (23 October 2018)…

  • NSSN 409: RMT steps up action on the trains and tube

    NSSN 409: RMT steps up action on the trains and tube

      This week we headline with escalating action by RMT members in disputes against Driver Only Operation on Northern Rail and South Western Railway as well as on the Piccadilly Line on London Underground. We stand shoulder to shoulder with the RMT, who initiated the NSSN in 2006 under the then General Secretary the late…

  • 408: Glasgow council workers to strike for equal pay justice

    408: Glasgow council workers to strike for equal pay justice

      Statement from Glasgow Unison Branch:- Glasgow Equal Pay – Why we are striking. You will be aware that Glasgow school support for learning staff, child development officers, school administration workers, home carers, cleaners, caterers and other council workers are being called out on strike on 23/24 October in a dispute over the council’s failure…

  • 407: Support Hospitality strike this Thursday #FFS410

    407: Support Hospitality strike this Thursday #FFS410

    The National Shop Stewards Network is proud to support the co-ordinated strike this Thursday October 4th by restaurant and hospitality workers. Two of our affiliated unions the BFAWU and Unite are prominent in the action, alongside the GMB, IWW and IWGB. We believe that these struggles are giving workers in these sectors confidence to fight…