Tag: no 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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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 129 – “Sorry to break your heart, but we’re not signing!”
(Finally the website and email is back up & running. HUGE thanks to Pete M and others who helped sort this out. We have a bit of a back log of emails ect so bear with us or drop us a call for anything urgent, thanks) Unions are now producing their responses to the TUC’s…
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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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“Balfour Beatty admission is the tip of the iceberg” BSG
Some updates from the Blacklist Support Group (BSG) over the last week. The group has worked tirelessly to uncover the damaging practices that have undermined workers rights and against blacklisting. NSSN give full support to the campaign. Full opposition day debate in the House of Commons lasting two and a half hours with contributions by…
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PCS reaches agreement on staffing in DWP
The PCS Group Executive in DWP is committed to campaigning for proper staffing levels to provide good services to the public in a period when the demand on our services is unprecedented. We were therefore disappointed in a period when workloads are so high that management issued 43 compulsory redundancy notices towards the end of…
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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…
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When a deadline is not a deadline, One is NOT amusing!
In the last week 250 workers from One Support, an arm of the One Housing Group (OHG) have had letters from their company asking them to sign a new contracts by the 20th Dec which would see cuts of up to £8,000 per worker. The implication was that if they didn’t sign, they would no…
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RMT Cleaners strike over low pay
Low-paid cleaners employed by the Carlisle company on the TransPennine Express (TPE) contract protested outside TPE’s office in Manchester as part of their strike on 30th November. The cleaners work for extremely low wages often in freezing cold conditions, so much so that they said it was warmer on the 8am protest than it had been on the station last night! …
