Tag: Sparks

  • 553: GKN workers all out strike to save Birmingham plant

    553: GKN workers all out strike to save Birmingham plant

    The NSSN sends our solidarity to the workers at the GKN Drivelines factory in Erdington Birmingham, who start all out indefinite strike action next Monday to save the plant. Send messages of support and donations to the strike hardship fund to the Unite convenor Frank Duffy [email protected]. The NSSN argues that in order to save…

  • NSSN 539: Sparks defeat de-skilling!! #No2ESO

    NSSN 539: Sparks defeat de-skilling!! #No2ESO

    Come to NSSN Conference 2021 – 11am Sunday 20 June Come to this year’s annual conference of the National Shop Stewards Network, which this year will be online on Zoom. Take part in the discussion with other trade union reps, activists and members. This will include how we keep our workplaces safe and how we…

  • NSSN 538: Support JDE coffee workers fighting ‘fire & rehire’

    NSSN 538: Support JDE coffee workers fighting ‘fire & rehire’

    This week’s NSSN bulletin leads with yet another group of workers taking brave and determined action against ‘fire and rehire’ to impose huge cuts to their income. The Unite members at Jacobs Douwe Egberts in Banbury need the support of the whole union movement as management issue dismissal notices. Solidarity! Email messages of support and…

  • 536: Thurrock bin workers defeat Tories & Hovis, Metroline wins

    536: Thurrock bin workers defeat Tories & Hovis, Metroline wins

    Last week, the NSSN celebrated the tremendous victory by Unite bus workers in Manchester against ‘Fire and Rehire’. This week, we are able to salute three further welcome wins by Unite and the BFAWU. Binworkers in Thurrock, Essex have defeated the Tory Council’s attack on their income after an indefinite 6-week strike. Also, striking Hovis…

  • 529: Support PCS DVLA strike 6-9 April over Covid concerns

    529: Support PCS DVLA strike 6-9 April over Covid concerns

    This week’s NSSN bulletin headlines with the 4-day PCS strike starting today at DVLA after over 500 cases of Covid were reported there since September. The NSSN gives our full solidarity and support to PCS and its members at DVLA as they fight for workplace safety PCS website: (1 Apr) Support PCS members at DVLA…

  • NSSN 525: Strike together against Tory 1% NHS pay insult

    NSSN 525: Strike together against Tory 1% NHS pay insult

    This week’s NSSN bulletin headlines with the explosive outburst of anger against the Tory government’s 1% pay offer for NHS workers. A glimpse of this mood was shown by immediate protests called in Manchester and London on Sunday. NSSN supporters were present on both. Outrageously, despite both protests being safe, with PPE used and socially-distanced,…

  • NSSN 523: The Sparks launch fight to stop de-skilling at Hinkley Point

    NSSN 523: The Sparks launch fight to stop de-skilling at Hinkley Point

    Rank and file construction electricians have launched a struggle against what they see as multi-skilling by bosses at the massive site Hinkley Point to build the nuclear power station, estimated to cost £22.5 billion. It is reported that an agreement to employ about 500 electrical apprentices had been reneged on and instead a training course…

  • Picketing reinstates sacked construction rep

    Picketing reinstates sacked construction rep

    Ranks and file construction workers from the Blacklist Support Group and their supporters descended on the Canary Wharf HQ of Morgan Stanley this morning to protest the sacking of Unite rep Graham Boxall. The building is undergoing work by the electrical contractor Phoenix, a signatory to bargaining body the Joint Industry Board (JIB). However Phoenix…

  • 208 – Come to NSSN rally at TUC:All out together October 14!

    208 – Come to NSSN rally at TUC:All out together October 14!

    The 2014 NSSN conference agreed that the Network will hold a public rally at the TUC Congress in Liverpool to lobby delegates to keep up the pressure for further co-ordinated strikes – 2pm Sunday September 7th in Jury’s Hotel opposite Echo Arena conference centre in Albert Dock. This year’s TUC Conference meets as public sector…

  • Romford Sparks win after Blockade

    Romford Sparks win after Blockade

    15 electricians working for T.Clarke via an agency at the Network Rail Operating Centre construction site have won a fantastic victory. Last week, they set up a Unite shop and elected two reps as they sought direct employment with Clarkes after being the next in a long line of workers to suffer from the ‘Umbrella…

  • VIDEO: Sparks blockade Tommy Clarke site in Romford

    VIDEO: Sparks blockade Tommy Clarke site in Romford

    At a Romford rail station site in east London last week, 15 agency construction workers who were suffering being paid via the umbrella company scam called a Unite official to the site. They were seeking help in putting forward their demand that they be employed directly by the building services contractor company T. Clarke. In a meeting…

  • NSSN Conference July 5: “Fight Together for a Pay Rise!”

    NSSN Conference July 5: “Fight Together for a Pay Rise!”

    Workers are saying “What recovery? We want our share!” Millions of public sector workers are having their pay again pegged to 1% when RPI inflation is nearly 3% and energy prices are up 9%! Average household income is already 6% below 2003 levels. NHS workers are not even getting this miserly rise and correctly health…