Tag: Peoples Assembly

  • NSSN cancels conference to support July 1st demo

    NSSN cancels conference to support July 1st demo

    As our supporters and affiliates will know, this year’s conference of the National Shop Stewards Network (our 11th) is due to take place in London on Saturday July 1st. Hundreds of trade union and anti-cuts campaigners will be preparing to take part in discussions and debates about the crucial struggles and disputes facing working people.…

  • NSSN 288: Get the Tories out! March together on April 16

    NSSN 288: Get the Tories out! March together on April 16

    First it was the U-turn on tax credits, then Personal Independence Payment after Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation and now on top of the division over Europe, Cameron has been shaken by the Panama tax exposé. The Tories really are on the edge! The question is how do we push them over it?! It’s clear that…

  • 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 280: Defend the Junior Doctors – Fight Hunt’s imposition!

    NSSN 280: Defend the Junior Doctors – Fight Hunt’s imposition!

    The NSSN calls on all our supporters and affiliates to continue to give solidarity to the BMA and the junior doctors. Why not offer them the chance to speak at a meeting of your union branch, trades council or NSSN group? We encourage everyone to discuss with the BMA in your area the idea of…

  • NSSN 248: Massive marches against austerity

    NSSN 248: Massive marches against austerity

    The streets of London were full of anti-austerity protestors last Saturday on the People’s Assembly demonstration. Thousands more were on other protests, including the STUC event in Glasgow. What a response to the Tories just 43 days after their election victory was confirmed! The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) believes that this shows the huge…

  • NSSN 198 – The July 10 pay strike…….IS ON!!

    NSSN 198 – The July 10 pay strike…….IS ON!!

    Come to the NSSN Conference on July 5th “Strike together for a pay rise” Its official – Unison’s local government workers have voted to strike on July 10th against the ConDem pay freeze (read here). This raises the prospect of well over a million public sector workers striking together in a ‘Coalition of the Willing’…