Tag: Unite
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NSSN 229: Happy Valentine’s Day to all workers from BFAWU
The BFAWU bakers union and Hungry for Justice/Fast Food Rights have produced a Valentine’s Card. It sets out the demands that all workers would love:- Put an end to the exploitation of workers through zero-hour contracts Make work pay by introducing a £10 per hour minimum wage Abolish the Youth Minimum Wage Allow workers to join…
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228: National Gallery strike, stop privatisation & union victimisation!
From PCS website (3 Feb): Pickets braved the London snow on the first morning of our five-day strike over privatisation at the National Gallery. The well-supported action followed news yesterday that one of our senior reps there, and a member of our team in the talks at Acas, had been suspended by senior managers. In…
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M25 workers vote to strike for decent pay
Up to 100 Unite members working on maintaining the M25 motorway have voted to strike by a majority of 97% in a dispute over two-tier contracts and union recognition. The maintenance contract is with a consortium Connect Plus Services (CPS) that is headed by Balfour Beatty. Balfours are up to their normal cost cutting…
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226: July4 NSSN Conference ’15 – ‘Stop the union-busters!’
The national steering committee of the National Shop Stewards Network met last Saturday. The meeting confirmed that this year’s NSSN conference, our 9th, will be on Saturday July 4th in Conway Hall in London. Our vice-chair and PCS Wales chair Katrine Williams updated us on the brutal attack on PCS by this government. The meeting…
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NSSN 225: London Bus Strike / Defend Union Rights
January 13th London bus strike in video and pictures Bus workers in Unite in London are taking historic strike action today (January 13th) – for one rate for the job across all 18 companies. Strikers know this might have to be just the start and are ready for a big fight, but what a start!…
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London bus strike in video and pictures
Bus workers in Unite in London are taking historic strike action today – for one rate for the job across all 18 companies. Strikers know this might have to be just the start and are ready for a big fight, but what a start! Picket lines of 70, 100 and more, maintained all day. And…
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Support the Gateshead Barbour 4-week strike
Workers from Barbour’s Gateshead warehouse are on four weeks of strike action against the imposition of changes to their terms and conditions. On Friday 9 January around 100 strikers and supporters from the FBU, Unison, BFAWU bakers union and others participated in a march to Barbour’s South Tyneside HQ. One of the strikers commented that…
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NSSN 224: 2015 opens up with mass London bus strike!
On Tuesday January 13th, over 27,000 London busworkers in Unite will be going on strike across the capital. The NSSN sends solidarity to these workers and their union. One of the workers explains why they are taking action:- “Since 1994/95 when London Buses were privatised we have seen attacks on our pay and terms and…
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NSSN 223: Season’s greetings – the year that was 2014
It’s time to say goodbye to 2014. It was the year the trade union movement had to tragically say farewell to a genuine giant, Bob Crow. The NSSN salutes his memory and those of many other fallen comrades who have left us this year. The year started with Bob’s union, the RMT standing up to…
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NSSN 221: Fight Osborne’s never-ending austerity!
You couldn’t make it up…Osborne reveals a budget that means another £35-50billion worth of cuts to be unloaded on public sector workers and working-class communities just as Starbucks admit that it will be another 3 years until they pay ‘normal’ levels of tax! The ConDem’s Autumn Statement confirms that if he gets his way, the…
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NSSN 220: NHS workers strike for “our share!”
Nurses, cleaners, porters, midwives, occupational therapists, paramedics, scientists, radiographers, admin, catering, security staff and other NHS staff in England took a second four hours of strike action on Monday 24 November, from 7am until 11am. This has been followed by six days of ‘work to rule’. Altogether, 11 health service trade unions took part in the action – united…
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Trelleborg workers show management whose boss
With the workers at the Beaumont Ley’s Trelleborg factory having just undertaken a two-day strike, it appears that their management are determined to ignore their very reasonable demands for fair pay. Mark Potter, the local Unite the Union rep based at the factory finds it strange that the management refuse to make their workers a…
