Category: Reports
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Strike against bullying NUT/NASUWT
UPDATED: Picture from picket line today. One parents comments: ”My daughter is home for three days due to the Stratford Academy strike in east London. It is not ‘lost education’; she is getting some of the best education possible. She is watching her teachers courageously standing up to a bullying, autocratic senoir management and fighting for…
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Join Bromley Unite lobby council 12th Nov!
URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED Colleagues, Our Brothers and Sisters inBromley are facing unprecedented attacks on their National Terms and Conditions, pay and bargaining. UNITE are the only Union making the stand in Bromley to oppose these unacceptable moves to break away from National T&C’s and Pay talks. . We need All Branches to mobilise as many people…
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Doncaster Drivers go to war with Tesco!
’ve never been on a picket line like it! An armoured personel carrier and a farmer’s muckspeader blocked the gates to Doncaster Tesco’s depot. Around 150 drivers, members of Unite the union, and their families joined the blockade for photographs as police stopped the traffic and scab deliveries! All were in high spirits as this ‘stunt’…
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Bakers Union agrees to affiliate to the NSSN
”We are delighted to report that the Bakers Union BFAWU has agreed at its national executive to affiliate to the NSSN. We look forward to working even closer with this fighting union and its members. This decision means that 7 national unions now officially support or are affiliated to the NSSN – RMT, PCS, CWU,…
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TCL Miners protest over Pensions in Namibia
On Wednesday (7 Nov), Former workers for TCL in Namibia started their demonstrations outside the court in the capital Windhoek demanding the restoration of their missing pension funds. Click for march pictures Initial reports indicate continued obstruction by the authorities. The workers have followed all correct procedures, but the police are trying to prevent them…
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Visteon pensioners bring solidarity to Fords workers
Yesterday, two weeks after 1400 Ford workers were told that they face the dole, 80 ex-Ford Visteon pensioners leafleted the Ford plants in Bridgend and Dagenham as their union Unite prepares for legal action to win back the full value of their pensions from Ford. NSSN supporters gave out the leaflet at Southampton today. In…
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Crossrail dispute: Desperate BFK resort to violence
See below an excellent video made by Reel News, reporting on last weeks campaigning activity from Crossrail
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Solidarity with Ford workers – Defend every job
News of Ford’s plans to close the Transit plant in Southampton has hit workers and the city like a bombshell. 500 Ford workers’ and 450 contractors’ jobs are under threat. But the shockwaves of closure will rumble far further. 81 suppliers provide components and materials to Southampton. After 700 jobs were cut in 2008, these…
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NSSN Scotland Conference Report
The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) conference in Glasgow on 27th October heard uplifting reports from an array of trade unionists from the public and private sector on the theme of fighting the austerity onslaught and building towards a 24-hour general strike. Shop stewards and trade union activists from Unison, Unite, EIS, Usdaw and PCS…
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Tescos – Every sacking helps!
Unite members waved union placards on the picket line saying ‘Tesco – every sacking helps’ as 186 Tesco drivers in Doncaster started a three day strike on Wednesday 31st October against job losses and wage cuts. Tesco, not content with £3.8 billion profit last year, transferred their Doncaster transport workforce in August to Eddie Stobart…
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NW NSSN report & agrees to support ETUC day of action
An excellent meeting by the north-west Shop Stewards Network in Manchester on Saturday brought together stewards and members across Greater Manchester and Lancashire from Unite, UCU, NUM, Unison and BFAWU. The main discussion on “next steps towards a one-day general strike” affirmed widespread support for the demand that the TUC name the date now for…
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Support the Ford workers – stop the plant closures and sackings in Southampton & Dagenham!
The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) sends its full support to Ford workers and their unions – Unite and the GMB after their company’s announcement that it intends to close two British plants and sack up to 2,000 workers by next summer. We support any action taken by these workers to defend their plants and…
