Category: Bulletins
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Bulletin 115 – More dole queues or time to for a 24hr general STRIKE?
“The good news is going to keep coming,” said David Cameron last week in the Commons about the economy. Well, for workers there has been nothing but an avalanche of despair as factories are threatened with closure and companies go into administration. We carry below a report of the campaign at Ford’s Transit plant in…
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Housing workers fight for ‘Sector standards’
We all have an important role to play building the idea of the need for a general strike. We also support the call for a Day of Action and Solidarity across Europe on 14 November, as the ETUC strongly opposes the austerity measures, which are plunging Europe into economic stagnation, & recession. This Day of Action and Solidarity…
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We Marched together on the 20th, now to strike together!
“Blimey!” was the reaction of one railway worker as he heard about Lennie McCluskey’s call for a general strike in Hyde Park on the massive TUC demo last Saturday. We expected Mark Serwotka and Bob Crow to do that, and they did. The RMT, PCS together with POA had committed to campaigning for a general…
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113 – March together this Saturday against austerity
March together this Saturday against the ConDem austerity offensive…then strike together! We have spent the last few months helping to build for Saturday’s TUC demonstrations in London, Glasgow and Belfast. We also lobbied the TUC conference last month for the unions to follow up the October 20 mobilisations with a 24 hour general strike to…
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Bulletin 112 Its Us vs Them!
You can’t help but wanting to kick the telly every time they come on, and that’s just for what you can see happen or begin to experience. The jolly hockeystick bunch should carry a health warning, ¼ of whom are private landlords and 23 of the 29 ,of just the cabinet ,are millionaires. With an…
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Defend the NHS – Build for a 24-hour general strike
National Shop Stewards Network NHS Bulletin No. 2 NHS bulletin 2 The ConDem government’s attacks on the National Health Service are sending it spinning towards destruction. A recent report by the Royal College of Physicians shows the terrifying levels of diminishing resources to demand in the NHS. The number of NHS beds is more than 30% less than 25 years ago, despite having…
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Bulletin 111
Ever since the con-dem government announced its austerity measures the PCS message has been that there is an alternative and that the cuts agenda is ideologically driven. The public sector is now facing the largest attacks in a generation with raids on our pensions, a pay freeze, job losses and the continued threats of privatisation. …
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No 109
An opinion poll by YouGov last week showed that most people think the Lib Dems have made no difference to the government. Of course! The Lib Dems are wedded to the free-market system destroying workers’ lives. We need to get rid of this big business government right away. Confirmation of how the NSSN caught the…
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Bulletin 108
Following what was described by one observer as the best debate she had ever witnessed at a TUC congress, union delegates voted overwhelmingly for ‘motion 5′, moved by the POA union (prison officers) in favour of a general strike against the government’s austerity. Although the wording of the motion qualified the general strike call, arguing…
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NSSN Bulletin 107
From Sunday the TUC holds its 2012 congress. So divided is the Con-Dem coalition that at times it seems a strong gust of wind could blow them over as they argue over a third runway at Heathrow or House of Lords reform. Yet this is the government that has implemented billions of pounds worth of cuts, sacked…
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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…
