Tag: BMA
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NSSN 728: Support the summer strikes!
As we enter the summer months, strikes are hotting up as workers face down increasing cuts and bosses’ attacks, including the longstanding bin disputes by Unite members in Birmingham and Sheffield, facing brutal strike-breaking measures. In the case of Birmingham, shamefully by a Labour council. Across the public sector, unions are consulting on pay offers…
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NSSN 682: BMA call 5-day Junior Doctors Strike during general election
The NSSN sends our solidarity to the BMA and their junior doctor members who are taking further action in their long-running pay dispute with the Tory Government. Please support this and all other workers’ action that is taking place. From BMA website: Junior doctors plan strike prior to general election (29 May) – BMA requested…
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NSSN 630: Support the BMA Junior Doctors as 4-day strike starts
From BMA website: Second round of strikes: 11, 12, 13, 14 April – We are holding a 96 hour walk out of all junior doctors in England in order to achieve a full pay restoration. This is our second round of action. This means you should not attend any shifts starting after 6:59am on 11…
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NSSN 612: Strike wave escalates with November 30th walkout
This Wednesday is yet another significant day of co-ordinated strike action. CWU members in Royal Mail will be taking further action, and for the 3rd time they will be out on the same day as UCU members in higher education. And for the first time, the NEU will be out in 77 Sixth Form Colleges.…
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308: VIDEO – TUC Rally ‘Call demo to support Junior Doctors!’
Sunday’s NSSN rally before the start of TUC Congress in Brighton was a fantastic success. Militant trade unionists from both the leadership of some of the most fighting unions and the rank and file spoke to 250 Congress delegates and union and anti-cuts campaigners. Everyone sent their best wishes to PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka who was…
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NSSN 306: Junior Doctors, UberEats & Southern Rail strikes
BMA Junior Doctors re-start strikes September 12-16 The BMA has today confirmed that junior doctors will take further industrial action. The first 5 days will be September 12-16. We know that trade unionists and the majority of ordinary people everywhere will support this action as they did earlier in the year. These dates happen…
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TU Bill passed but victories show how it can be defeated
The Tory Trade Union Bill has completed its journey through the parliamentary process to become law. Disgracefully, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has not organised a single national demonstration against the bill. It’s one lobby of Parliament last November saw hundreds of union members refused access to the venue in Westminster because the TUC had…
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290: VIDEO PCS & FBU call for solidarity with Junior Doctors
On April 26th in London, over 5,000 striking junior doctors and their supporters marched on the first day of their latest 2-day strike. The march was joint between the BMA and the NUT, who are balloting over forced academisation along with members of other supporting unions including PCS, FBU, RMT, Unite, Unison, NAPO, POA, GMB,…
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287: Build pressure to #NationaliseTata – keep furnaces firing!’
15,000 steel jobs are on the line but the call to nationalise Tata is growing and the pressure on Cameron is building! Over the last few days, politicians of all parties in Cardiff and London are moving their positions but we have to keep the heat on them. Last Saturday, hundreds came on a ‘Nationalise…
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283: Join Housing Bill demo & support Junior Doctors
Thousands of people from across the country will march on Parliament to oppose the Government’s Housing and Planning Bill and demand: secure homes for all, rent controls, and homes for people not for profit. The Bill, which is currently in the House of Lords, threatens to make the UK’s housing crisis much worse, send rent…
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NSSN 282: Model motion to build support for Junior Doctors
BMA Junior Doctors dispute – next Wednesday March 9th, Junior Doctors will start the first of three more 48-hour strikes after the Tories announced their plan to impose the new contract latest update. The planned dates of industrial action are: 9 – 11 March: Emergency care only between 8am on Wednesday 9 March and 8am…
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NSSN 281: Video of joint UCU/Unison FE strike
Today (February 24), thousands of staff at Further Education colleges in England took strike action on pay. A joint statement by UCU / Unison said, “Lecturers, librarians, technicians, cleaners and caretakers who belong to UNISON and the University and College Union (UCU) are among those taking part in the one-day strike over pay. The protest…
