Tag: CWU

  • Bulletin 160: Unofficial Action of Unison Glasgow Housing wins!

    Bulletin 160: Unofficial Action of Unison Glasgow Housing wins!

    BREAKING NEWS – Glasgow city council homeless work team walked out in unofficial action to support a suspended member over and over caseloads. “Members walked out on Friday  and more stayed off work yesterday.’ Following a meeting with all Unison members on unofficial strike action this morning it was unanimously agreed to return to work at 1.30pm today.…

  • Get Planning for November – NSSN Lobby of the TUC

    Get Planning for November – NSSN Lobby of the TUC

    When we arrived in Bournemouth, I really felt like just getting my shoes off and feeling the sand between my toes and listen to the waves rush towards me.. But me and 8 other members, mostly reps, of our Unite LE1111 branch chose to join the NSSN rally & lobby the TUC for co-ordinated action.(Have…

  • NSSN e-bulletin 157 – One Housing workers to strike again…& join the NSSN lobby of the TUC!

    NSSN e-bulletin 157 – One Housing workers to strike again…& join the NSSN lobby of the TUC!

    NSSN e-bulletin 157 – One Housing workers to strike again…& join the NSSN lobby of the TUC on Sept 8! Unite LE1111 housing workers at One Housing Group will strike for five days starting the 5th of September. Following a four year Pay freeze, One Housing Group management have decided to slash front line worker’s…

  • NSSN e-bulletin 156 – Mass action can defeat Hunt’s NHS cuts!

    NSSN e-bulletin 156 – Mass action can defeat Hunt’s NHS cuts!

    In Lewisham in south London, triumphant health campaigners’ posters announce: “We’ve won! Justice for Lewisham Hospital.” Local people are celebrating a famous victory. This January health secretary Hunt tried to downgrade Lewisham hospital’s accident and emergency departments and its high risk obstetric department. On 31 July a high court judge ruled that Hunt did not…

  • Bulletin 155 – Stop ambulance cuts & Defend Union Rights!

    Bulletin 155 – Stop ambulance cuts & Defend Union Rights!

    NSSN e-bulletin 155 – “We will not be silenced!’ Stop ambulance cuts in Yorkshire and defend union rights! Request for support: “The campaign against cuts to patient safety via the use of unqualified staff and the de-recognition of Unite the Union at Yorkshire Ambulance Service continues. All Trades Councils have been written to requesting urgent action by…

  • EBulletin 154-  Zero tolerance for zero-hour contracts!!

    EBulletin 154- Zero tolerance for zero-hour contracts!!

      NSSN e-bulletin 154 – Zero tolerance for zero-hour contracts!! Zero-hour contracts have hit the headlines over the last week, with 24,000 (80%) of JD Wetherspoons staff and 20,000 (90%) of Sports Direct all on such contracts. Even Buckingham Palace and the Coalition Government use them! Zero-hour contracts offer no guarantee of hours or pay, and…

  • Bulletin 153  An Anti-Austerity Summer! (And a Hot Autumn?)

    Bulletin 153 An Anti-Austerity Summer! (And a Hot Autumn?)

    NSSN EBULLETIN 153 An Anti-Austerity Summer! (And a Hot Autumn?) We might not all be wearing ‘magic shorts’ but we are getting straight to it this week:  Elected members from trades councils on TUCJCC have come on board with the NSSN to lobby TUC Congress. The Unemployed Workers Centres Combine are also supporting it. All…

  • URGENT APPEAL from BRIDGWATER CWU Delivery Dispute

    URGENT APPEAL from BRIDGWATER CWU Delivery Dispute

    Appeal from Bridgwater CWU – RE: Bridgwater Delivery Office Official Dispute – Financial Support Needed Dear Colleagues, 110 CWU Members out of 120 Postal Workers at Bridgwater Delivery office are currently under severe attack from Royal Mail. They have taken five days strike action so far, following a 79.3% “Yes” vote. The main issues are…

  • Bulletin 151 ‘Rings of Fire’

    Bulletin 151 ‘Rings of Fire’

    FBU protest goes on NOW – 94% of the public opposes fire cuts in London – and yet the majority of the cuts are to go ahead! These are being piled on to the rest of the Con-Dems’ attacks on the working class, every service which workers rely upon, is under attack or being privatised.…

  • Bulletin 139 – Time to get your diaries out..

    Bulletin 139 – Time to get your diaries out..

    We’re supposed to be in the age of declining unions but if the TUC calls a 24 hour general strike, the young, the unorganised and the unemployed will join the unions.” RMT General Secretary Bob Crow closed the NSSN lobby of today’s (April 24th) TUC General Council, which saw up to 200 union member and…

  • Union members to lobby TUC to name the date for a general strike

    Union members to lobby TUC to name the date for a general strike

    A union rank and file organisation will be lobbying the TUC General Council on April 24th for the TUC to name the date for a 24 hour general strike against the ConDem austerity offensive. As the Financial Times reports today (‘Unions split over call for 24 hour general strike’ – April 3rd), the leaders of…