Tag: nhs
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PCS Budget day Strike reports
March 20th PCS strike against austerity on Budget day – Reports from the pickets and rallies Central London – Once again central London is dotted everywhere with the yellow and blue of PCS flags and placards. Karen at the Highways Agency thought that as pay packets are hit, more workers will realise that they have…
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Solidarity with PCS striking on Budget day!
As the CONDEM government look to further shift wealth to the rich and leave more and more of us literally gasping for breath as we try to make ends meet, we are proud to express our support and solidarity with the PCS members who will be taking strike action tomorrow over pay, pensions and terms and conditions.…
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TUC Name the day for a General strike – Lobby 24th April
NSSN to lobby TUC General Council on Wednesday April 24th – from 8.30am outside TUC Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) has called a lobby of the TUC General Council on April 24th. The NSSN has been campaigning for the maximum co-ordinated strike action to stop the cuts.…
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Resisting Austerity in Europe & UK Sat 16th March
Please make every effort to attend the SERTUC Fighting Austerity Conference as it was reported at the SERTUC EC that only 60 people had registered by yesterday. Martin Powell-Davies is the Chair of the Public Services Sub Committee of SERTUC and is the main organiser of this event (& NSSN Steering Committee). Registration details below.…
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No. 132 It’s time for a united union fight for decent pay!
NSSN ebulletin 132 International Women’s Day 2013: Women to the fore against austerity – “it’s high time for a united union fight for decent pay” Women internationally have fought to defend jobs and services and this has never been so important as we approach international women’s day this year. All the gains that we…
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No. 131 Don’t Vote for OR Implement CONDEM cuts!
This week a swathe of Barclays’ top bankers piled up one million pound bonuses each – while low-paid workers like the part-time domestics at Whipps Cross hospital, and many others, face serious pay cuts. Cuts to jobs and services are now so deep that a few months ago leaders of some metropolitan councils warned that…
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BP Tanker drivers at Grangemouth strike report
BP tanker drivers from the Grangemouth oil refinary last week come out in a 72 hour strike action against cuts to pay and pensions. In a militant show of force workers from Unite are determined that they will not back down in a dipute against an obscenely rich company that regularly makes around £1 billion profit per…
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No. 130 ‘Its not a crisis, its a con!”
sort of had to blink a few times, were Unite lobbying Unison at its national HQ on 26th Feb 12.30 to save the Agenda for Change? (NHS workers’ agreements which would mean cuts to pay, terms and opting out of national agreements). Well yes and no, Unite are lobbying at Unison HQ but it’s the National Staff…
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Bulletin 128 Feb 7th
Last year’s decision by the TUC conference to prepare for general strike action against the cuts (albeit by contacting the unions to see if is practical) is or could be an historic decision. That a general strike to force back the Tory/LibDem government from its austerity programme is required is a given, and of course…
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NHS Mid-Yorkshire Five-Day Strike
AN ATTACK ON ONE IS A ATTACK ON US ALL Supporters bulletin 22nd January 2013 Thank you for your support for our strike against ‘downbandings’ . We have received £1000′s in solidarity donations and 100′s of messages of support from TU branches and individuals across the country. So far our members have taken strike action…
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NSSN weekly bulletin 125
NSSN BULLETIN NO. 124 Hardly have we set foot into the New Year than a barrage of attacks have rained down on workers. It’s as if bosses have acted quickly to get bad news done and dusted before workers have recovered from the festive season. Nearly 9,000 jobs have just gone in HMV, Jessops and…
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Bulletin 122 – 2012 just a taster of what 2013 will look like
It would be impossible to talk about every dispute that has happened in 2012. That alone tells THE story of the last 12 months…that is that workers are fighting back against this government and the employers. A year ago this week, the NSSN called a lobby of the TUC’s Public Service Liaison Group as activists…
