Category: Bulletins
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NSSN Bulletin 106
106 — For decent, affordable, accessible sport, housing, jobs & welfare! This week the attention turns from the Olympics to the Paralympics. Traditionally a much smaller event but this year is set to benefit from the coverage of the Olympics. We will all enjoy the games and what can be done, but for disabled people…
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NSSN Bulletin 105
Trade unionists in Britain have been stunned by the scenes of slaughter on our TV sets from the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa. For many veterans of the anti-Apartheid movement it was all too reminiscent of the massacres in Sharpeville and Soweto. But this horror turned very quickly to anger when the reports came…
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NSSN Bulletin 104
I passed the newsagents this morning and saw the Daily Mirror headline – “Britain’s 20 most wanted tax dodgers”. I thought what’s this? Is the government of the rich going to finally expose their fat cat friends? But I didn’t recognise anyone on the front page. True to form, while we don’t condone tax dodging…
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NSSN Bulletin 103
It’s official. Making young people work for nothing is NOT slavery! Last week, a high court judge dismissed the case of a post-graduate, who had contested being forced to sweep floors and stack shelves 5 hours a day 5 days a week in Poundland without pay in order not to lose her Job Seekers Allowance…
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NSSN Bulletin 102
As Olympics fever grips some of the nation, many trying to put out of their minds what will happen after the £9 billion jamboree. Remember, just 15% of the total cuts programme has been implemented, the economy is stuck in a recession and the eurozone crisis is still rumbling, so there is sadly, plenty more…
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NSSN Bulletin 101
Watching the odd swish car and coach race down the 30 miles of super fast lanes that have been assigned for the Olympics, shows what can be done, if a city and its representatives decide to plan to change things. It just depends on who that the plan is for, and again its for the…
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NSSN Bulletin 100
20 July 2012 Yes, we’ve made it to 100! Just a few weeks after the 6th annual NSSN conference – the 100th ebulletin. The NSSN is now a fixture in the union movement – building the rank & file since 2006, when we were initiated by the RMT. Big thanks to our supporting national unions RMT,…
