Category: Bulletins

  • NSSN 669: Support the Junior #DoctorsStrikes

    NSSN 669: Support the Junior #DoctorsStrikes

    Date for your diaries!! 2024 NSSN Conference  – Saturday 22nd June, 11am-4.30pm, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL Facebook event Support the Junior Doctors Strikes The NSSN sends solidarity to junior doctors and their unions after strikes last week in Wales and this week in England and action to come in…

  • NSSN 668: After Welsh #SaveOurSteel demos, steel unions ballot for action

    NSSN 668: After Welsh #SaveOurSteel demos, steel unions ballot for action

    Last Saturday, the NSSN marched alongside steel unions Unite, Community and GMB and hundreds of steelworkers and their families and supporters in Port Talbot and Newport. The demonstrations were called against Tata Steel intention to make 75% of the 4,000-strong Port Talbot workforce redundant. This would also result in thousands more losing their jobs at…

  • NSSN 667: March this Saturday to #SaveOurSteel plus FBU slams Tory attack on their #RightToStrike

    NSSN 667: March this Saturday to #SaveOurSteel plus FBU slams Tory attack on their #RightToStrike

    The full version of this week’s NSSN e-bulletin no.667 can be viewed HERE – this week’s highlights include news, protests, solidarity campaigns against victimisation, strikes and industrial action ballots as well as international reports plus much more. Reports from unions do not necessarily reflect NSSN’s views.    You can receive this bulletin via email or you…

  • NSSN 666: Join the fight to #SaveOurSteel in Port Talbot

    NSSN 666: Join the fight to #SaveOurSteel in Port Talbot

    Save Steelmaking at Port Talbot – nationalisation not devastation The NSSN sends our solidarity to steelworkers and their unions as Tata Steel announce their intention to make 75% of the 4,000-strong workforce redundant. This would also result in thousands more losing their jobs at contracting companies, and threaten related jobs such as on the rails…

  • NSSN 665: After TUC Demo & ASLEF forcing LNER U-Turn, Zoom into NSSN Meeting tonight on how to defeat Tory MSL

    NSSN 665: After TUC Demo & ASLEF forcing LNER U-Turn, Zoom into NSSN Meeting tonight on how to defeat Tory MSL

    NSSN Online Public Meeting against the new Tory anti-union Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (MSL) – 6.30pm Tuesday 30th January Zoom Meeting details:- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85010588852  Meeting ID: 850 1058 8852 About 5,000 trade unionists marched in Cheltenham last Saturday in opposition to the new Tory anti-union Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (MSL), and to…

  • NSSN 664: March together this Saturday for the #RightToStrike – ASLEF victory shows Tories can be defeated!

    NSSN 664: March together this Saturday for the #RightToStrike – ASLEF victory shows Tories can be defeated!

    TUC demonstration against Tory Minimum Service Levels anti-union legislation – Saturday 27 January in Cheltenham assembles at 12noon at Montpellier Gardens for a march through the town centre to Pittville Park A5 leaflet A3 poster NSSN Online Public Meeting against the new Tory anti-union Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (MSL) – 6.30pm Tuesday 30th…

  • NSSN 663: Support 18th January Northern Ireland Public Sector General Strike

    NSSN 663: Support 18th January Northern Ireland Public Sector General Strike

    The NSSN sends our full support and solidarity to the unions and their members on strike this Thursday 18th January NIPSA General Secretary Carmel Gates: “It is within the gift of the Secretary of State to pass the money to the Department of Finance immediately and we are calling on him to do that without…

  • NSSN 662: RMT London Underground pay win

    NSSN 662: RMT London Underground pay win

    The NSSN sends our congratulations and solidarity to the RMT and its members on London Underground who have won a significant step forward on their pay claim. From national RMT website: Tube strike averted after progress made in dispute (7 Jan) – RMT have suspended their planned tube strike this week following talks with TfL.…

  • NSSN 661: Support the Junior Doctors strikes

    NSSN 661: Support the Junior Doctors strikes

    We send happy new year greetings to all our supporters and affiliates and our solidarity to all workers in dispute. 2024 opens up just as 2023 finished, with workers taking action against the Tory cost of living squeeze. Amongst these will be junior doctors in England in the BMA and HCSA unions, who after being…

  • NSSN 660: Workers end 2023 on the picket line – #SupportTheStrikes

    NSSN 660: Workers end 2023 on the picket line – #SupportTheStrikes

    The NSSN sends season’s greetings to all our supporters and affiliates. The year is ending just as it begun, with workers taking action. We have seen the continuation of the Strike Wave against the cost of living squeeze. And the festive season will see a whole number of workers on picket lines. Please show your…

  • NSSN 659: TUC Special Congress launches campaign of defiance against Tory attack on our #RightToStrike

    NSSN 659: TUC Special Congress launches campaign of defiance against Tory attack on our #RightToStrike

    The NSSN welcomes the decision of the TUC Special Congress last Saturday to agree a strategy to oppose the new Tory anti-union legislation, the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (MSL). This is a blatant attack on workers’ right to strike by instructing unions to police their own strikes, even organising their own strike-breaking! The…

  • NSSN 658: Lobby Special TUC Congress for fighting strategy against Tory attack on the right to strike

    NSSN 658: Lobby Special TUC Congress for fighting strategy against Tory attack on the right to strike

    The NSSN welcomes the Special TUC Congress this coming Saturday 9th December, called in response to the new Tory anti-union legislation – Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023. Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union general secretary and TUC President, said: “The Act is a blatant attempt to ban strikes and prevent workers defending their jobs, wages…