Tag: rmt

  • 407: Support Hospitality strike this Thursday #FFS410

    407: Support Hospitality strike this Thursday #FFS410

    The National Shop Stewards Network is proud to support the co-ordinated strike this Thursday October 4th by restaurant and hospitality workers. Two of our affiliated unions the BFAWU and Unite are prominent in the action, alongside the GMB, IWW and IWGB. We believe that these struggles are giving workers in these sectors confidence to fight…

  • NSSN 406: Workers strike back against NHS privatisation

    NSSN 406: Workers strike back against NHS privatisation

      Unite members in the NHS in both Kent and Yorkshire are striking this week over being transferred into wholly owned subsidiaries. This is despite this practice of privatisation supposedly being ‘paused’. Health workers have won victories in Mid Yorkshire, Esk & Wear Valley and Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Trusts and Unison members have…

  • NSSN 405: POA members take action over prison safety

    NSSN 405: POA members take action over prison safety

      The National Shop Stewards Network sends solidarity to the POA union whose members took part in protests outside prisons last Friday over the massive safety concerns that the union has for their members and other staff and inmates as a result of Tory cuts. The POA have disgracefully had their democratic right to take…

  • 404: NSSN TUC Rally – general election to ‘Get Tories Out!’

    404: NSSN TUC Rally – general election to ‘Get Tories Out!’

      The National Shop Stewards Network rally last Sunday September 9th before the start of TUC Congress was a tremendous event with over 200 trade union activists attending alongside congress delegates. TUC was held in Manchester to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first congress in 1868 and the NSSN rally took place in the…

  • 403: Come to NSSN Rally at TUC in Manchester

    403: Come to NSSN Rally at TUC in Manchester

      In the year of the 150th anniversary of the TUC, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is again organising a rally before the start of TUC Congress: ‘Fight Together to Get the Tories Out!’ It will be from 1pm on Sunday September 9th in the Manchester Mechanics Institute/Conference Centre, Princess Street, M1 6DD. Leaders…

  • NSSN 402: RMT DOO strike & UCU pay ballot

    NSSN 402: RMT DOO strike & UCU pay ballot

      The RMT is well into its third year of fighting Driver Only Operation (DOO). It has been forced to step up action on Northern Rail and South West Railway with strikes over the last few weeks with more called over the next month. The NSSN was initiated by the RMT and their late great…

  • NSSN 399: Support the striking Birmingham home care workers

    NSSN 399: Support the striking Birmingham home care workers

      The NSSN sends solidarity to Birmingham Council Unison members, who are stepping up their action. This report is from a Birmingham NSSN supporter:- Birmingham home care workers are starting 14 days of discontinuous strike action on 9 August in protest at the Labour council’s attempts to create a completely part-time workforce which would mean that many workers…

  • 398: NSSN TUC Congress Rally Sun Sept 9 Manchester

    398: NSSN TUC Congress Rally Sun Sept 9 Manchester

      In the year of the 150th anniversary of the TUC, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) will again be organising a rally before the start of TUC Congress. It will be from 1pm on Sunday September 9th in the Manchester Mechanics Institute/Conference Centre, Princess Street, M1 6DD. More details will follow. Leaders from fighting…

  • 397: NSSN conference – Mood for fighting action & coordination

    397: NSSN conference – Mood for fighting action & coordination

    Last Saturday saw hundreds of union reps and activists meet together in this year’s National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) conference. Below is a full report of what was a vibrant event. “I’m sick and tired of hearing that the trade union movement is on its way out,” declared Linda Taaffe in opening the National Shop…

  • NSSN 396: Come to NSSN Conference this Saturday!

    NSSN 396: Come to NSSN Conference this Saturday!

      The 2018 National Shop Stewards Network Annual Conference is from 11am-2.30pm this Saturday July 7th in Conway Hall – 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL. The attendance fee is £6 and it is open to all trade union and anti-cuts campaigners. Affiliation letter and conference appeal letter is here  Facebook event NSSN Conference…

  • 394: PCS national pay strike ballot begins – VOTE YES!

    394: PCS national pay strike ballot begins – VOTE YES!

      PCS The National Shop Stewards Network gives full support and solidarity to the PCS who voted at their recent annual conference to move to a national strike ballot on pay that opens today June 18 PCS pay ballot opens today – vote yes (18 Jun) – It is vital that all eligible members vote…

  • 393: Solidarity with Grenfell & Unite affiliates to NSSN

    393: Solidarity with Grenfell & Unite affiliates to NSSN

      The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) gives our full solidarity to all those who suffered in the Grenfell Tower fire in West London last year and all those who have been affected by this tragic disaster. We pay tribute to the courageous work and support of local residents and campaigners and the emergency service workers, including…