Tag: GMB
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NSSN 688: Support the Job Centre Security Guards strike
NSSN sends solidarity to the continuing strike action by DWP job centre security guards in the PCS and GMB unions. They will be taking action again for the whole of next week. On the last week of strike action, the workers, outsourced to G4S, marched to DWP HQ and the office of G4S, both in…
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NSSN 687: Amazon workers & GMB defiant in fight for union recognition
The NSSN stands in solidarity with the GMB and its members at Amazon, after coming an incredible 28 votes short in the ballot of 2,600 workers at the company’s Coventry site for union recognition. We have no doubt that this is a false victory for Amazon. The determined strike action that workers have taken in…
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NSSN 672: Amazon workers escalate strikes
Date for your diaries!! 2024 NSSN Conference – Saturday 22nd June, 11am-4.30pm, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL Facebook event The NSSN stands in solidarity with the GMB union and their members at Amazon who are escalating their action from today. GMB: Amazon workers announce new strike dates (12 Mar) –…
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NSSN 666: Join the fight to #SaveOurSteel in Port Talbot
Save Steelmaking at Port Talbot – nationalisation not devastation The NSSN sends our solidarity to steelworkers and their unions as Tata Steel announce their intention to make 75% of the 4,000-strong workforce redundant. This would also result in thousands more losing their jobs at contracting companies, and threaten related jobs such as on the rails…
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NSSN 656: Support the GMB Coventry Amazon Black Friday strike
The NSSN sends our support and solidarity to Amazon workers taking further strike action this coming Friday. The workers at the Coventry warehouse in the GMB union have been an inspiration to the whole trade union movement, and a beacon to all those in this sector who are not yet organised in a union. Get…
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NSSN 628: Unite wins 16.2% pay rise at National Express West Midlands & GMB Three victory
We headline this week’s NSSN bulletin with two fantastic union victories. The NSSN sends solidarity to both Unite and the GMB. From Unite website: Unite victory with win of 16.2% pay rise at National Express West Midlands (25 Mar) – Strikes by over 3,100 drivers end after vote to accept improved pay offer. West Midlands…
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NSSN 621: Support the biggest strike in NHS history
Last Wednesday February 1st was a massive step up in the strike wave, as 500,000 workers in 5 unions – NEU, PCS, UCU, ASLEF and RMT – walked out together. There were impressive rallies and demonstrations in many towns and cities in support of the action as well as to protest against the new planned…
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NSSN 619: 500,000 workers out on February 1st #StrikeTogether
The strike wave will take a major step up on Wednesday 1st February when 5 unions will take national strike action – NEU, PCS, UCU, ASLEF and RMT. Up to half a million workers will be out and will be joined by the growing number of localised disputes. It will be the single biggest…
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NSSN 618: NEU votes for national action & strikes with PCS, ASLEF, RMT & UCU on 1st Feb
The NSSN welcomes the vote by 300,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) for national industrial action, starting with a national strike on 1st February. They will be joined by members of PCS, ASLEF, RMT and UCU also in national action, and with up to half a million workers on strike, it is…
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NSSN 617: Fight Together to defend the #RightToStrike
The Tories under Sunak have signalled their intention to bring in yet more anti-union legislation on the back of all those Conservative restrictions from Thatcher, Major, Cameron, May and Johnson that already make UK trade union laws the most undemocratic in Western Europe. Workers are being squeezed by the biggest cost of living crisis in…
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NSSN 615: 2022 ends with workers on picket lines
The NSSN sends season’s greetings to all our supporters. But this year, workers’ struggle continues over the festive period. Last week, the Nurses’ Strike erupted and continues this Tuesday, with over 100,000 RCN members taking action. On Wednesday, ambulance drivers in Unite, Unison and GMB will be on strike. Over the Christmas period, over 40,000…
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NSSN 614: Health workers join the strike wave
This week, as the end of the year nears, the developing strike wave against the cost of living squeeze reaches a new stage with hundreds of thousands of workers walking out. Alongside further national strikes by the RMT on the railway and CWU in Royal Mail as well as growing localised disputes, health workers start…
