Tag: EIS

  • NSSN 411: 30,000 march for Scottish teachers’ pay

    NSSN 411: 30,000 march for Scottish teachers’ pay

    For the second successive week, we headline the NSSN bulletin with a mass mobilisation of Scottish workers. Last Saturday, 30,000 teachers and supporters marched in Glasgow as part of the pay campaign by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) teaching union. The EIS demonstration took place just days after the incredible 8,000-strong Unison and GMB…

  • 408: Glasgow council workers to strike for equal pay justice

    408: Glasgow council workers to strike for equal pay justice

      Statement from Glasgow Unison Branch:- Glasgow Equal Pay – Why we are striking. You will be aware that Glasgow school support for learning staff, child development officers, school administration workers, home carers, cleaners, caterers and other council workers are being called out on strike on 23/24 October in a dispute over the council’s failure…

  • 407: Support Hospitality strike this Thursday #FFS410

    407: Support Hospitality strike this Thursday #FFS410

    The National Shop Stewards Network is proud to support the co-ordinated strike this Thursday October 4th by restaurant and hospitality workers. Two of our affiliated unions the BFAWU and Unite are prominent in the action, alongside the GMB, IWW and IWGB. We believe that these struggles are giving workers in these sectors confidence to fight…

  • NSSN 343: Scottish Lecturers win! Election Promises On School Funding

    NSSN 343: Scottish Lecturers win! Election Promises On School Funding

    Education is becoming a major issue as the General election enters its final period. In Scotland, after six days of national strike action, lecturers in colleges have won a major victory in their fight for fair and equal pay and harmonised terms and conditions. Our first piece this week is a report on the win…

  • NSSN 339: Support Jeremy Corbyn’s “Workers’ Charter”

    NSSN 339: Support Jeremy Corbyn’s “Workers’ Charter”

    Workers will welcome Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell’s 20-point “workers’ charter” to fix the “rigged economy” in work. If it is enthusiastically campaigned for by taking it into workplaces, alongside policies such as re-nationalisation of the railways and Royal Mail, it could really inspire workers to vote to put Jeremy into government and ditch the…

  • 290: VIDEO PCS & FBU call for solidarity with Junior Doctors

    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,…

  • NSSN 286: Save jobs & communities – #Nationalise Tata steel plants!

    The National Shop Stewards Network sends our support and solidarity to the thousands of steelworkers, their families and the steel unions who are trying to come to terms with the news that Tata is looking to sell off its UK steel business. This means that what should be a fundamental foundation of the economy and…

  • NSSN 285: Tories split as IDS resigns – joint action to stop the cuts!

    Millions of workers would have enjoyed their Friday night as the news filtered through that work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith had resigned from the government because of the planned cuts to Personal Independence Payments (PIP). All those who have suffered from the brutal benefit cuts and sanctions as well as civil service workers…

  • NSSN 281: Video of joint UCU/Unison FE strike

    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…

  • NSSN 276: No closures – nationalise to #SaveOurSteel

    The crisis in the UK Steel Industry is continuing with another 1050 jobs threatened at Tata, with 750 to go at the biggest plant Port Talbot. Just today (Jan 20) Sheffield Forgemasters have announced 100 workers will be made redundant. The NSSN gives full support to the workers in the industry and their unions. We…

  • NSSN 275: Junior Doctors strike back against Tory attacks!

    NSSN 275: Junior Doctors strike back against Tory attacks!

    NSSN 275: Junior Doctors strike back against Tory attacks! The NSSN has been proud to give solidarity and support to the BMA and the Junior Doctors as they took their first strike action for four decades on January 12th. Despite all the dirty tactics from the Tories and their anti-union press, the action was a…

  • NSSN 274: Support the Junior Doctors strike & NHS bursaries march!

    NSSN 274: Support the Junior Doctors strike & NHS bursaries march!

    NSSN 274: Support the Junior Doctors strike & NHS bursaries march! Next Tuesday January 12th, Junior Doctors will be striking on the first of four planned days of action. This Saturday January 9th, students in the NHS will be marching in defence of their bursaries – assemble 12noon outside St Thomas’ Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road,…