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NSSN 199: Come to NSSN14 this Saturday, build mass July10 strike
The line-up for the July 10 strike is now complete. The FBU has today announced that fire-fighters defending their hard won pension rights will be walking out on the same day as up to 1½ million council and school workers, teachers, civil servants and others who are resisting the continuing public sector pay freeze. Workers…
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Pick up £10Now T-shirts at NSSN Conference
The NSSN is using its 2014 conference on Saturday July 5th to help build the growing campaign for a £10 per hour minimum wage. Ginger Jentzen from the victorious Seattle $15Now struggle will be telling hundreds of trade union and anti-cuts activists about a campaign that is now a beacon for millions of low-paid workers…
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Tyneside Safety Glass strikers demonstrate
With a tremendous show of strength around 200 Tyneside Safety Glass (TSG) strikers demonstrated on Gateshead’s Team Valley Trading Estate. The strikers marched between the companies two factories. The industrial estate was deafened by a cacophony of vuvuzalas as a sea of red Unite union banners swept down the Teams Valley. Everyone agreed this…
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NSSN 198 – The July 10 pay strike…….IS ON!!
Come to the NSSN Conference on July 5th “Strike together for a pay rise” Its official – Unison’s local government workers have voted to strike on July 10th against the ConDem pay freeze (read here). This raises the prospect of well over a million public sector workers striking together in a ‘Coalition of the Willing’…
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Support the EDF workers – striking again!
EDF ENERGY – “EXTREMELY DISHONOURABLE FELLOWS” Unite has come up with this new way to describe the energy company which has failed to honour an agreement made back in 2011. Incredibly, the multi million profit making company now claims that when it signed a pay deal with the Unite trade union in 2011, it had…
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NSSN 197: Support the Fire-fighters pension strikes!
NSSN supporters all over the country visited the FBU picket lines at fire stations giving solidarity to these workers and their union when they took the absolutely solid action last Thursday. Fire Brigades Union members are striking again against attacks on their pension scheme which will mean they pay £4000 more for the same or…
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Ginger Jentzen from Seattle $15WON to speak at NSSN 2014!
NSSN 196: Seattle $15WON campaigner speaks at NSSN Conference! The NSSN is delighted to announce that a Ginger Jentzen from the victorious $15Now campaign that has lifted the minimum wage to $15 per hour in Seattle will address the NSSN annual conference on July 5th. Undoubtedly, the election last year of Kshama Sawant of Socialist…
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Occupational Therapists to walk out against bullying
Unite members working as Occupational Therapists in Greenwich, London, will be out on strike again on 11th and 12th June in protest at bullying, harassment and victimisation. The strike was sparked by the suspension of one of our members the day after she made a grievance complaint about harassment and bullying. The member in question…
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Mark Harding victory & indefinite UCU Lambeth strike
This week we take the unusual step of headlining with two disputes. We salute the indefinite strike by workers at Lambeth College and hope that the tremendous victory of Mark Harding and his union the RMT will be an inspiration to them, the Unite One Housing convenor Bryan Kennedy as his members take strike action…
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Oppose EDL in Stevenage
An Urgent Appeal to all Eastern region TUC’s: The EDL have announced that they are holding a regional march in Stevenage on the Saturday 7th June. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT Please ask all your affiliates to mobilise for this event (Stevenage TUC has a proud record of supporting other TUC’s in the past now we…
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NSSN Conference July 5: “Strike Together for a Pay Rise!”
Workers are saying “What recovery? We want our share!” Millions of public sector workers are having their pay again pegged to 1% when RPI inflation is nearly 3% and energy prices are up 9%! Average household income is already 6% below 2003 levels. NHS workers are not even getting this miserly rise! The NSSN welcomes…
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NSSN 194: Strike together on July 10 for a pay rise!
The NUT’s executive committee has voted to make preparations to give notice for strike action on 10 July. This is the day that school support staff unions have put forward as the date when they hope to be able to call a co-ordinated strike. Other public sector unions like the PCS have live ballots already…
