Tag: Tories
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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…
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NSSN 664: March together this Saturday for the #RightToStrike – ASLEF victory shows Tories can be defeated!
TUC demonstration against Tory Minimum Service Levels anti-union legislation – Saturday 27 January in Cheltenham assembles at 12noon at Montpellier Gardens for a march through the town centre to Pittville Park A5 leaflet A3 poster NSSN Online Public Meeting against the new Tory anti-union Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (MSL) – 6.30pm Tuesday 30th…
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NSSN 661: Support the Junior Doctors strikes
We send happy new year greetings to all our supporters and affiliates and our solidarity to all workers in dispute. 2024 opens up just as 2023 finished, with workers taking action against the Tory cost of living squeeze. Amongst these will be junior doctors in England in the BMA and HCSA unions, who after being…
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NSSN 659: TUC Special Congress launches campaign of defiance against Tory attack on our #RightToStrike
The NSSN welcomes the decision of the TUC Special Congress last Saturday to agree a strategy to oppose the new Tory anti-union legislation, the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (MSL). This is a blatant attack on workers’ right to strike by instructing unions to police their own strikes, even organising their own strike-breaking! The…
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NSSN 658: Lobby Special TUC Congress for fighting strategy against Tory attack on the right to strike
The NSSN welcomes the Special TUC Congress this coming Saturday 9th December, called in response to the new Tory anti-union legislation – Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023. Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union general secretary and TUC President, said: “The Act is a blatant attempt to ban strikes and prevent workers defending their jobs, wages…
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NSSN 656: Support the GMB Coventry Amazon Black Friday strike
The NSSN sends our support and solidarity to Amazon workers taking further strike action this coming Friday. The workers at the Coventry warehouse in the GMB union have been an inspiration to the whole trade union movement, and a beacon to all those in this sector who are not yet organised in a union. Get…
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NSSN 649: Tories threaten BMA with new anti-union law – fight together!
Tory Health Secretary Steve Barclay has threatened the BMA with their new anti-union law, the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 as the union’s consultants and junior doctors members stepped up their strike action. The NSSN stands in solidarity with the BMA and the consultants and junior doctors. As with other NHS workers and those…
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NSSN 648: TUC votes for fighting strategy against Tory anti-union law
This week’s TUC Congress in Liverpool passed a composite motion that set out a fighting strategy to take on the latest Tory anti-union law, the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 (MSL). Workers will now want this strategy implemented, including the organising of a national demonstration and the convening of a Special TUC Congress ‘to…
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NSSN 647: Join NSSN TUC Congress #RightToStrike Rally & Lobby this Sunday in Liverpool
The TUC Congress in Liverpool, that starts this coming Sunday September 10th, comes at a critical time for the trade union movement. The Tories’ new anti-union legislation, the Minimum Service Level Act (MSL) was passed into law before the Parliamentary summer recess. This means that striking unions can face massive fines and their members when…
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NSSN 646: Unions call for action against new Tory anti-union law at TUC – come to NSSN Lobby
At the TUC Congress in Liverpool, that starts on Sunday September 10th, one of the major debates will be on the Tories’ new anti-union legislation. The Minimum Service Level Act (MSL) was passed into law before the Parliamentary summer recess. This means that striking unions can face massive fines and their members can be under…
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NSSN 641: FBU calls for “mass opposition” to latest Tory anti-union legislation
The NSSN welcomes the FBU’s call for the need to “build mass opposition” to the Tory’s new anti-union attack and we totally agree that unions need to “act together” against this offensive. The NSSN is again holding a lobby and rally before the start of TUC Congress on Sunday September 10th in Liverpool from 1pm,…
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NSSN 636: Demonstrate against the Tory anti-union attack
NSSN 636: Demonstrate against the Tory anti-union attack Join the TUC protest this Monday at 6pm in Parliament Square, called to coincide with the final Commons parliamentary debate. It must be a massive show of strength. But the TUC and the unions must go much further, with plans for a national Saturday demonstration to build…
