Tag: BECTU

  • NSSN 295: Bakers Union strikes back in Yorkshire & Wales!

    NSSN 295: Bakers Union strikes back in Yorkshire & Wales!

    On April 1st, the NSSN alongside other campaigning organisations, took part in a Fast Food Rights/Hungry for Justice protest alongside the BFAWU Bakers Union outside Downing Street. It was to protest at the Government’s new ‘Gimmick’ National Living Wage. The Tories tried to portray it as a real breakthrough for the low-paid but BFAWU President…

  • NSSN 221: Fight Osborne’s never-ending austerity!

    NSSN 221: Fight Osborne’s never-ending austerity!

    You couldn’t make it up…Osborne reveals a budget that means another £35-50billion worth of cuts to be unloaded on public sector workers and working-class communities just as Starbucks admit that it will be another 3 years until they pay ‘normal’ levels of tax! The ConDem’s Autumn Statement confirms that if he gets his way, the…

  • NSSN 218: Defend PCS: Stop HMRC anti-union plot

    NSSN 218: Defend PCS: Stop HMRC anti-union plot

    Senior HMRC officials hatch anti-union plot (Statement from PCS website) The most senior civil servants in HM Revenue and Customs have hatched a “deeply disturbing” politicised plot to destabilise our union, it has been revealed. A leaked memo, written for HMRC’s executive committee, outlines a plan to “marginalise” us because of our continuing opposition to…

  • NSSN 217: St Mungo’s victory/Defend Ricky Matthews

    NSSN 217: St Mungo’s victory/Defend Ricky Matthews

    STOP PRESS!! St Mungos Broadway – Strike Off! Following a day locked in talks at ACAS, the Unite SMB reps and Regional Officer, Nicky consider that they have received an offer from SMB management which is reasonable enough to be put to the membership. On this basis, the strike has been called off. – See…

  • NSSN 207 – NHS workers ballot for pay strike!

    NSSN 207 – NHS workers ballot for pay strike!

    This week, hundreds of thousands of NHS workers start an industrial action ballot on pay. It poses the possibility of them joining the other public sector workers who are striking on October 14th. The NSSN also gives full support to the People’s March for the NHS which is currently on its way to London from…

  • Ritzy strikers march for a Living Wage

    Ritzy strikers march for a Living Wage

    Strikers at Brixton’s Ritzy cinema were joined by fellow BECTU members and supporters in a march around central London yesterday. The march was part of their long running fight for the London Living Wage of £8.80 an hour. The route took in several well known London cinema’s owned by Cine World, the parent company of…

  • 201: NSSN rally at TUC Congress:‘Confirm the next pay strikes!’

    201: NSSN rally at TUC Congress:‘Confirm the next pay strikes!’

    The tremendous #J10 public sector strike last Thursday has changed the mood music. All of a sudden it is the government desperately re-arranging the deck chairs on its Titanic with its latest re-shuffle. As the NSSN predicted, if the unions give workers a lead, they will respond. Not only that, the action was overwhelmingly popular…

  • Ginger Jentzen from Seattle $15WON to speak at NSSN 2014!

    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…

  • NSSN 193: Care UK workers say “Enough is enough!”

    NSSN 193: Care UK workers say “Enough is enough!”

    Mags Cowling’s speech to Doncaster Care UK strikers demo on Saturday 17 May “Hi, my name is Mags Cowling and I am a Doncaster Care UK striker (and newly elected Unison shop steward). We were previously employed by the NHS until last year when we were put out for tender and handed to a company…

  • NSSN 189 – Tube Strike back on! Support the RMT

    NSSN 189 – Tube Strike back on! Support the RMT

    RMT members working on London Underground (LU) will strike on 28-30 April and 5-8 May. This is because talks at Acas with LU have failed to make any progress. In fact LU have reneged on their undertakings made when our strike in February was suspended to allow talks to take place. During this time LU…

  • NSSN Conference July 5: “Fight Together for a Pay Rise!”

    NSSN Conference July 5: “Fight 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 and correctly health…