Tag: Jeremy Corbyn

  • NSSN 345: Organise to get the Tories Out

    NSSN 345: Organise to get the Tories Out

      The ‘Strong and Stable’ Conservative Government of Theresa May is hanging by a thread! The incredible response to Jeremy Corbyn’s General Election campaign showed once and for all that workers and their families are furious after 7 years of Tory austerity and a lost decade where our incomes have been cut by a fifth.…

  • NSSN 344: Tories Out! Corbyn In! Vote against austerity

    NSSN 344: Tories Out! Corbyn In! Vote against austerity

      This week’s NSSN bulletin comes out just days before one of the most crucial general elections for generations. The National Shop Stewards Network is primarily a rank and file network for trade unionists and anti-cuts campaigners and we are not affiliated to any political party. But in this election, there is a clear choice.…

  • 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 341: CWU members walk out to force Royal Mail back!

    NSSN 341: CWU members walk out to force Royal Mail back!

    Royal Mail workers in the Communication Workers Union (CWU) union, part of the Eastern 6 Branch, won a tremendous victory last week in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, despite the new Tory trade Union Act. A CWU member sent in the following report:- “Royal Mail had suspended two representatives for allegedly claiming unauthorised overtime. CWU members took…

  • 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…

  • NSSN 337: Support the fight for pensions at BMW, AWE, Fujitsu & Royal Mail!

    NSSN 337: Support the fight for pensions at BMW, AWE, Fujitsu & Royal Mail!

    This week sees another dispute flaring into action over employers closing final salary/defined benefits pension schemes as BMW car workers start five weeks of strike action at Oxford, Swindon, Hams Hall near Birmingham and Goodwood. Workers at the Atomic Weapons Establishment will have taken 16 days of strikes after voting by 80% in a re-ballot…

  • NSSN 326: PCS fights Govt attack on DWP job centres and offices

    NSSN 326: PCS fights Govt attack on DWP job centres and offices

    From Katrine Williams – PCS DWP Group Vice President & NSSN Vice-Chair As part of the Tory offensive against the public sector the chancellor has announced a 20% reduction in DWP offices and more job centres to share sites in local authority premises to deliver 30% saving on estates costs. This fits in with the…

  • 308: VIDEO – TUC Rally ‘Call demo to support Junior Doctors!’

    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…

  • NSSN 306: Junior Doctors, UberEats & Southern Rail strikes

    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…

  • 305: John McDonnell to speak at NSSN TUC rally 11 Sept

    305: John McDonnell to speak at NSSN TUC rally 11 Sept

    The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is delighted to announce that Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has agreed to speak at our rally on Sunday 11 September, before the start of TUC Congress in Brighton. The NSSN gives full support to Jeremy and John McDonnell. Like tens of thousands of working class people who have…

  • NSSN 301: Video of 10th NSSN Conference

    NSSN 301: Video of 10th NSSN Conference

    This is a video of the 10th annual NSSN Conference which took place on Saturday July 2nd in London on the themes: “Cameron’s gone – now get rid of the rest of the Tories! Link the strikes!’ NSSN TUC Congress rally ‘Cameron Gone – get the rest of the Tories Out!’ – 1pm Sunday 11th…

  • NSSN 300: NSSN Conference – “Now is the time to ramp things up”

    NSSN 300: NSSN Conference – “Now is the time to ramp things up”

    The sound of establishment figures crashing out of office provided the backdrop to the 10th annual National Shop Stewards Network conference. “In all the tumult, let’s not forget that this week we saw the downfall of a Tory prime minister” said PCS president Janice Godrich to huge applause. The Economist referred to the referendum result…