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NSSN 752: Workers end 2025 on the picket line – support the winter strikes!
The NSSN sends season’s greetings to all our supporters and affiliates, and solidarity to all workers and their unions in dispute and taking action. We have continued to build support for strikes, which are again clearly on the rise as workers fight back against the cost of living squeeze and Starmer’s austerity. Read about…
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NSSN 751: Solidarity with the BMA Resident Doctors strike!
The NSSN sends our full support to the BMA and their Resident Doctors members as they take more strike action for a fair pay award from 7am on 17 December until 7am 22 December. Instead of seeking to resolve the dispute, Labour Health Secretary Wes Streeting has criticised resident doctors. The whole union movement…
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NSSN 750: Support the striking Birmingham binworkers as agency workers join the picket lines
The NSSN salutes the heroic strike by the Birmingham binworkers, who have been taking indefinite action since March against the brutal fire & rehire by the Labour council, leading to the slashing of their wages by up to £8,000 a year. Outrageously, the council has used vicious strike-breaking measures, backed by Starmer’s government. However, in…
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NSSN 749: After Starmer & Reeves’s Budget, TUC must call demo!
After weeks of speculation, Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves has presented her Budget. While workers desperately need policies that reverse the attack on living standards of the last 15 years or so, instead the Budget effectively means ‘same again’. The NSSN has been campaigning for a Budget that makes the rich pay not workers and working-class…
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NSSN 748: Support rising number of strikes and protest against Starmer & Reeves’s austerity Budget
It’s clear that the number of strikes is again on the rise. Workers are being forced into action as the cost of living squeeze continues to bite. There is a whole rash of localised action, while national disputes such as the BMA Resident Doctors are taking place, alongside national ballots in further and higher education.…
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NSSN 747: Support the BMA Resident Doctors strike
The NSSN sends solidarity to the BMA and their Resident Doctors members who will be going on strike from 7am this Friday 14th November to 6.59am on Wednesday 19th November. Details of picket lines can be found via Strike Map BMA: Resident doctors set strike date (23 Oct) – Full walk out planned for 14…
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NSSN 746: Join Unite Community national day of action against cuts and sanctions on Budget Day
Join the Unite Community national day of action against cuts and sanctions on Budget Day Wednesday 26 November 2025 read more Westminster protest – from noon College Green, Westminster, London on Wednesday 26 November Unite Community is calling a national day of action to protest against the ongoing cuts and sanctions to people’s benefits. It’s…
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NSSN 745: Support the BMA Resident Doctor strikes
The NSSN sends solidarity to the BMA and their Resident Doctor members as they call strike action. We continue to build solidarity and send support to all workers and unions taking action and in dispute. BMA: Resident doctors set strike date (23 Oct) – Full walk out planned for 14 November in England unless health…
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NSSN 744: Unions in universities and colleges ballot for strike action
The NSSN sends solidarity to unions and their members in further and higher education who are balloting for strike action. This could lead to mass action by education staff. UCU’s ballots alone consist of 65,000 members at 137 HE institutions and 10,000 staff at 65 colleges. We will carry updates of these ballots and action…
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NSSN 743: Reminder – join NSSN lobby of TUC General Council to #NameTheDate for national demo against Starmer’s cuts
In this week’s NSSN bulletin, we remind everyone that we are calling a lobby of the next meeting of the TUC General Council on Wednesday 22nd October to demand that the policy passed at TUC Congress earlier this month is implemented to call a national demo against Starmer’s cuts. TUC Congress voted for motions from…
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NSSN 742: Lobby TUC General Council to #NameTheDate for a national demo against Starmer’s cuts
The NSSN is calling a lobby of the next meeting of the TUC General Council on Wednesday 22nd October to demand that the policy passed at TUC Congress earlier this month is implemented to call a national demo against Starmer’s cuts. TUC Congress voted for motions from the TUC Disabled Workers Conference and Trades Councils…
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NSSN 741: Birmingham demo says “Victory to the striking binworkers!”
The NSSN proudly marched last Saturday in Birmingham with the striking binworkers, their friends, families and supporters. The city’s residents, along with trade union reps and activists from all around the country turned out in large numbers to make it a day to remember with loads of coverage in local and national media. The Birmingham…
