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  • NSSN 423: Support the Ireland Nurses and Midwives strike!

    NSSN 423: Support the Ireland Nurses and Midwives strike!

      Nearly 40,000 health workers in Ireland are due to start strike action tomorrow against wage restraint. The National Shop Stewards Network gives our full support and solidarity to Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) and its members. “Ireland’s nurses and midwives will go on strike for 24 hours on January 30th, it was announced.…

  • NSSN 421: Support the striking Durham bus drivers!

    NSSN 421: Support the striking Durham bus drivers!

    From Unite website:- Unite in talks on Durham bus pay dispute, as new strike dates announced (11 Jan) – Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, is to hold talks with Arriva Durham County Ltd on Thursday (17 January) in a bid to resolve the long-running pay dispute. But at the same time, the union announced…

  • NSSN 420: March this Saturday for a General Election to get the Tories out!

    NSSN 420: March this Saturday for a General Election to get the Tories out!

    The NSSN is supporting this Saturday’s ‘Britain is Broken – General Election Now’. It is vital that the trade union movement mobilises to force out the Tories and fight for a government led by Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell on the pro-worker anti-austerity Labour manifesto from the 2017 General Election. This is the best way…

  • NSSN 418: Seasons greetings – support the Xmas strikes!

    NSSN 418: Seasons greetings – support the Xmas strikes!

    The National Shop Stewards Network sends season’s greetings to our supporters and affiliates. Every week we publicise disputes and build support and solidarity for them. This year, there are a number of strikes and actions taking place in the run-up to and during the holidays. Please read through our bulletin to find out more about…

  • 414: Tory crisis – TUC & unions mobilise to force general election!

    414: Tory crisis – TUC & unions mobilise to force general election!

    From Linda Taaffe NSSN national secretary:- Emergency General Council of the TUC urgently needed This austerity big business government is hanging by a thread. The Tories are tearing themselves apart. They don’t know which way to turn. Theresa May is weak. Her only strength is the fact that there is no realistic alternative Tory leader. …

  • 413: Teaching unions start indicative ballot on pay & funding

    413: Teaching unions start indicative ballot on pay & funding

    This week, we headline with the consultative ballot by teaching unions. This is from the NEU:- Hands up because enough is enough! Recently, we set the Government six tests for school funding before the Chancellor’s autumn Budget. This was the Government’s opportunity to change course and properly fund the schools our children deserve. Instead, the…

  • 412: Support Hants Prysmian Cables & Systems strike

    412: Support Hants Prysmian Cables & Systems strike

    The second 48 hour strike at Prysmian Cables & Systems in Eastleigh, Hampshire will go ahead tomorrow and Thursday, November 7-8 over a derisory pay offer below inflation. These are on top of the five days of strike action already taken since 26 September This is a report from last week’s first two day stoppage…

  • NSSN 411: 30,000 march for Scottish teachers’ pay

    NSSN 411: 30,000 march for Scottish teachers’ pay

    For the second successive week, we headline the NSSN bulletin with a mass mobilisation of Scottish workers. Last Saturday, 30,000 teachers and supporters marched in Glasgow as part of the pay campaign by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) teaching union. The EIS demonstration took place just days after the incredible 8,000-strong Unison and GMB…

  • 408: Glasgow council workers to strike for equal pay justice

    408: Glasgow council workers to strike for equal pay justice

      Statement from Glasgow Unison Branch:- Glasgow Equal Pay – Why we are striking. You will be aware that Glasgow school support for learning staff, child development officers, school administration workers, home carers, cleaners, caterers and other council workers are being called out on strike on 23/24 October in a dispute over the council’s failure…

  • 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 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…