Month: November 2018

  • 415: Cammell Laird workers start 10 weeks of industrial action

    415: Cammell Laird workers start 10 weeks of industrial action

    We headline this week’s NSSN bulletin by sending solidarity to workers in Unite and the GMB unions fighting job cuts at Cammell Laird shipyard on Merseyside. From the Unite website: Cammell Laird workers in 10 weeks of industrial action over ‘callous’ job cuts (22 Nov) Workers at Birkenhead’s Cammell Laird shipyard will begin a 10…

  • 414: Tory crisis – TUC & unions mobilise to force general election!

    414: Tory crisis – TUC & unions mobilise to force general election!

    From Linda Taaffe NSSN national secretary:- Emergency General Council of the TUC urgently needed This austerity big business government is hanging by a thread. The Tories are tearing themselves apart. They don’t know which way to turn. Theresa May is weak. Her only strength is the fact that there is no realistic alternative Tory leader. …

  • 413: Teaching unions start indicative ballot on pay & funding

    413: Teaching unions start indicative ballot on pay & funding

    This week, we headline with the consultative ballot by teaching unions. This is from the NEU:- Hands up because enough is enough! Recently, we set the Government six tests for school funding before the Chancellor’s autumn Budget. This was the Government’s opportunity to change course and properly fund the schools our children deserve. Instead, the…

  • 412: Support Hants Prysmian Cables & Systems strike

    412: Support Hants Prysmian Cables & Systems strike

    The second 48 hour strike at Prysmian Cables & Systems in Eastleigh, Hampshire will go ahead tomorrow and Thursday, November 7-8 over a derisory pay offer below inflation. These are on top of the five days of strike action already taken since 26 September This is a report from last week’s first two day stoppage…