Tag: terms and conditions
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NSSN 697: Join the protests against fuel payment cut
This week, we headline our bulletin with protests against the new Labour Government’s cut to the winter fuel payment, which will affect millions of pensioners, at a time of fuel price hikes. We support the call for nationalisation of the energy and utility companies. Please support the protests, many of which have been called by…
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NSSN 696: RCN nursing staff reject pay offer
We headline this week’s NSSN bulletin with the vote by members of the Royal College of Nurses in England top reject the Government’s pay offer. We send them and their union our support and solidarity. RCN: NHS pay consultation in England – members vote reject (23 Sept) Two-thirds of members who voted said the 5.5%…
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NSSN 695: Stop the jobs slaughter!
NSSN sends solidarity to workers as a number of industrial companies announce mass redundancies and closures or there is concerning speculation about them. Just in the last few weeks, workers who work at or depend for their livelihoods on Tata Steel, British Steel, Grangemouth and Harland & Wolff have all faced the most serious news…
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NSSN 694: NSSN TUC Rally says: make the rich pay NOT workers!
Up to 120 union reps and activists attended the NSSN TUC Congress rally and lobby last Sunday in Brighton. While celebrating the smashing of the Tories in July, the overwhelming message to the new Labour government ahead of their first budget next month, was make the rich pay NOT workers. We gave a platform to…
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NSSN 693: Come to NSSN TUC Congress Rally & Lobby this Sunday in Brighton
Tories Gone! – Fight for Workers Policies – come to the NSSN Rally & Lobby of TUC Congress – Old Ship Hotel Brighton, 1pm Sunday 8th September Speakers confirmed so far: Steve Gillan POA General Secretary, Sarah Woolley BFAWU General Secretary, Ian Lawrence NAPO General Secretary, Daniel Kebede NEU General Secretary, Mick Whelan ASLEF General…
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NSSN 692: Make the rich pay not workers
The NSSN has responded to yesterday’s speech by Labour Prime Minster Sir Keir Starmer, which warned of a “painful” Budget on 30th October. While it is right to point to 14 years of Tory rule, unions must demand that the response must be not to make workers pay the price. Those Tory governments, including when…
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NSSN 691: Keep the pressure on to scrap the Tory anti-union laws
Tories Gone! – Fight for Workers Policies – come to the NSSN Rally & Lobby of TUC Congress – Old Ship Hotel Brighton, 1pm Sunday 8th September Speakers confirmed so far: Steve Gillan POA General Secretary, Sarah Woolley BFAWU General Secretary, Ian Lawrence NAPO General Secretary, Marion Lloyd PCS NEC (personal capacity), Suzanne Muna SHAC…
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NSSN 690: MSL to go – demand the repeal of all the Tory anti-union laws!
The NSSN welcomes reports that the new Labour government has confirmed its manifesto commitment to repeal the latest Tory anti-union law, the Minimum Service Levels Act (MSL), which would have forced unions to instruct a certain number of members to work during strike action. This is a welcome step and has been achieved by the…
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NSSN 689: Workers Unity to stop the far-right
The NSSN stands with the rest of the union movement against the violent protests whipped up by the far-right and the fascists over the last week. They are looking to exploit the horrific incident in Southport for their own ends. We send support and solidarity to all those affected by that attack, especially the families…
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NSSN 688: Support the Job Centre Security Guards strike
NSSN sends solidarity to the continuing strike action by DWP job centre security guards in the PCS and GMB unions. They will be taking action again for the whole of next week. On the last week of strike action, the workers, outsourced to G4S, marched to DWP HQ and the office of G4S, both in…
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NSSN 687: Amazon workers & GMB defiant in fight for union recognition
The NSSN stands in solidarity with the GMB and its members at Amazon, after coming an incredible 28 votes short in the ballot of 2,600 workers at the company’s Coventry site for union recognition. We have no doubt that this is a false victory for Amazon. The determined strike action that workers have taken in…
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NSSN 686: Tories Gone! – Fight for Workers Policies
The NSSN celebrates the massive defeat of the Tories in the General Election. Workers have thrown the Conservatives out of office after 14 years of their brutal assault on our living standards and union rights. Now workers will want the incoming Labour Government to implement policies in our interests. Last month’s NSSN Conference endorsed the…
