• Victory for Look Ahead Unite Members!

    Victory for Look Ahead Unite Members!

    Look Ahead Victory! Strike Off! There has been a stunning eve-of-strike victory for Look Ahead Unite Members. After weeks of negotiation and an escalating threat of industrial action, with a seven day strike due to start on Thursday 9th July, members working in the four Hackney Look Ahead services were finally made an offer that…

  • Victory For Tyneside Safety Glass Strikers!

    Victory For Tyneside Safety Glass Strikers!

    Militant Action Wins!   After three weeks of strike action TSG strikers have won a tremendous victory against tight-fisted  bosses who had offered an insulting zero per cent pay increase.   Initially, the bosses stated that they would not talk terms whilst the strike continued.   By relying on agency workers (illegally taken on), they seemed…

  • NSSN 200: J10 pay strike shows our power!

    NSSN 200: J10 pay strike shows our power!

    Public sector workers in nine different unions were out on strike in force yesterday – in a magnificent show of strength to demand an end to the pay freeze. Local government workers in Unison, Unite and GMB; civil servants in the PCS and Nipsa, teachers in the NUT, fire-fighters in the FBU, and sections of…

  • VIDEO: $15 NOW & Fast Food Rights Campaign

    VIDEO: $15 NOW & Fast Food Rights Campaign

    Campaign against low pay to sweep across the Atlantic, as union organises UK Fast Food workers with: Ginger Jentzen, campaigner from victorious $15now campaign in Seattle, USA Ronnie Draper, General Secretary, Bakers Union BFAWU John McDonnell MP, Fast Food Rights campaign Rob Williams, Chair, National Shop Stewards Network Helen Pattison, Youth Fight for Jobs

  • NSSN supporters back striking Tyneside Safety Glass workers

    NSSN supporters back striking Tyneside Safety Glass workers

    An enthusiastic NSSN meeting on July 2nd supporting striking Tyneside Safety Glass (TSG) workers raised £110 in a collection for their strike fund, with the promise of more money coming in from trade union branches. A fantastic bucket collection at NSSN conference on July 5th raised over £120 each for the strike funds of striking workers at…

  • RMT confront ISS agency over lockout

    RMT confront ISS agency over lockout

    RMT members supported by the National Shop Stewards Network go to ISS corporate headquarters in Canary Wharf. ISS has imposed fingerprinting and biometric scanning on their workforce of cleaners on the London Underground. After a lawful ballot for industrial action RMT ISS members have refused to comply with the scanners when clocking on to work.…

  • NSSN leaflet for July 10th strikes

    NSSN leaflet for July 10th strikes

    NSSN leaflet for July 10th strikes

  • IN PICTURES: NSSN Conference 2014

    IN PICTURES: NSSN Conference 2014

    The 5th July 2014 saw a packed 8th annual National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) conference, held at Conway Hall in Red Lion Square, London. Ronnie Draper, General Secretary of the Bakers union, the BFAWU, described the conference on Twitter as, “the biggest shop stewards gathering of the year”. As the photos will show, the NSSN…

  • RMT protests sacking of ISS Agency Tube cleaners

    RMT protests sacking of ISS Agency Tube cleaners

    The RMT held a protest outside Parliament today in response to cleaning contractor ISS sacking at least one tube cleaner – and sending home many more workers without pay today – for following a union instruction not to book on for shifts using Biometric Fingerprinting Machines. The agency cleaner was sacked after refusing to use the…

  • VIDEO: First session of NSSN Conference

    VIDEO: First session of NSSN Conference

    Platform speakers of the first session of the National Shop Stewards Network’s eight annual conference, held in Conway hall, Red Lion Square, London on the 5 July 2014. Speakers were: Peter Pinkney, RMT president Rob Williams, Chair, NSSN Brian Caton, former POA general secretary Janice Godrich, PCS president Ginger Jentzen, a victorious Seattle $15Now campaigner…

  • Video: All strike together & Memorium for Bob Crow

    Video: All strike together & Memorium for Bob Crow

    5 July 2014 saw a packed 8th annual National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) conference, held at Conway Hall in Red Lion Square, London. Opening the conference, this video reviewed the year, including a tribute to Bob Crow, who founded the NSSN eight years ago, and backed its initiatives, showing the wide range of militant struggles…

  • About the NSSN cards available for printing off

    Print off these handy cards and use them on picket lines this Thursday A6 Cards – B&W A6 Cards – Colour