Tag: terms and conditions

  • NSSN 294: Link up the strikes – come to NSSN Conference

    NSSN 294: Link up the strikes – come to NSSN Conference

    NSSN supporters spent last week racing around picket lines and strike protests as a succession of workers took action. In Sheffield, PCS members at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills were on strike to stop their office being closed, while across the city hundreds of BFAWU bakers’ Union members were on picket lines, day…

  • NSSN 293: Support the strikes!

    NSSN 293: Support the strikes!

    Two weeks after the Tory trade Union Bill became law, this week’s NSSN e-bulletin is full of reports and requests of solidarity from a whole number of disputes. PCS members in the National Museum Wales are continuing their all-out strike while their comrades in BIS start action against office closures and job cuts. BFAWU members…

  • TU Bill passed but victories show how it can be defeated

    TU Bill passed but victories show how it can be defeated

    The Tory Trade Union Bill has completed its journey through the parliamentary process to become law. Disgracefully, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has not organised a single national demonstration against the bill. It’s one lobby of Parliament last November saw hundreds of union members refused access to the venue in Westminster because the TUC had…

  • 90 years since the General Strike

      Ninety years ago today, millions of workers were taking part in the General Strike to defend the miners from a brutal Tory government. The NSSN along with militant unions has championed the idea of generalised strike action to face down Tory austerity and their planned anti-union laws. PCS National Vice-President John McInally celebrates the…

  • 290: VIDEO PCS & FBU call for solidarity with Junior Doctors

    290: VIDEO PCS & FBU call for solidarity with Junior Doctors

    On April 26th in London, over 5,000 striking junior doctors and their supporters marched on the first day of their latest 2-day strike. The march was joint between the BMA and the NUT, who are balloting over forced academisation along with members of other supporting unions including PCS, FBU, RMT, Unite, Unison, NAPO, POA, GMB,…

  • NSSN 289: March with the Junior Doctors & Teachers!

    NSSN 289: March with the Junior Doctors & Teachers!

    London demo April 26 to support the Junior Doctors The streets of London were crammed last Saturday on the People’s Assembly demo, with protesters calling for ‘Dodgy Dave’ and the rest of the Tories to go. Next Tuesday and Wednesday, the Junior Doctors in the BMA take their next 48-hour strike against Jeremy Hunt’s imposition…

  • 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…

  • 287: Build pressure to #NationaliseTata – keep furnaces firing!’

    287: Build pressure to #NationaliseTata – keep furnaces firing!’

    15,000 steel jobs are on the line but the call to nationalise Tata is growing and the pressure on Cameron is building! Over the last few days, politicians of all parties in Cardiff and London are moving their positions but we have to keep the heat on them. Last Saturday, hundreds came on a ‘Nationalise…

  • NSSN 286: Save jobs & communities – #Nationalise Tata steel plants!

    The National Shop Stewards Network sends our support and solidarity to the thousands of steelworkers, their families and the steel unions who are trying to come to terms with the news that Tata is looking to sell off its UK steel business. This means that what should be a fundamental foundation of the economy and…

  • 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…

  • 284: Education unions must organise against Tory academies plan

    284: Education unions must organise against Tory academies plan

    Overnight, the Tories have announced plans to put every school in England into academy status. This is an emergency statement from NSSN supporters in the NUT:- The government’s announcement that all schools in England are to become academies is a declaration of war on comprehensive public education and national pay and conditions for teachers and…

  • 283: Join Housing Bill demo & support Junior Doctors

    283: Join Housing Bill demo & support Junior Doctors

    Thousands of people from across the country will march on Parliament to oppose the Government’s Housing and Planning Bill and demand: secure homes for all, rent controls, and homes for people not for profit. The Bill, which is currently in the House of Lords, threatens to make the UK’s housing crisis much worse, send rent…