Tag: Unite

  • NSSN leaflet for July 10th strikes

    NSSN leaflet for July 10th strikes

    NSSN leaflet for July 10th strikes

  • IN PICTURES: NSSN Conference 2014

    IN PICTURES: NSSN Conference 2014

    The 5th July 2014 saw a packed 8th annual National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) conference, held at Conway Hall in Red Lion Square, London. Ronnie Draper, General Secretary of the Bakers union, the BFAWU, described the conference on Twitter as, “the biggest shop stewards gathering of the year”. As the photos will show, the NSSN…

  • Video: All strike together & Memorium for Bob Crow

    Video: All strike together & Memorium for Bob Crow

    5 July 2014 saw a packed 8th annual National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) conference, held at Conway Hall in Red Lion Square, London. Opening the conference, this video reviewed the year, including a tribute to Bob Crow, who founded the NSSN eight years ago, and backed its initiatives, showing the wide range of militant struggles…

  • NSSN 199: Come to NSSN14 this Saturday, build mass July10 strike

    NSSN 199: Come to NSSN14 this Saturday, build mass July10 strike

    The line-up for the July 10 strike is now complete. The FBU has today announced that fire-fighters defending their hard won pension rights will be walking out on the same day as up to 1½ million council and school workers, teachers, civil servants and others who are resisting the continuing public sector pay freeze. Workers…

  • Tyneside Safety Glass strikers demonstrate

    Tyneside Safety Glass strikers demonstrate

    With a tremendous show of strength around 200 Tyneside Safety Glass (TSG) strikers demonstrated on Gateshead’s Team Valley Trading Estate.   The strikers marched between the companies two factories.  The industrial estate was deafened by a cacophony of vuvuzalas as a sea of red Unite union banners swept down the Teams Valley. Everyone agreed this…

  • NSSN 198 – The July 10 pay strike…….IS ON!!

    NSSN 198 – The July 10 pay strike…….IS ON!!

    Come to the NSSN Conference on July 5th “Strike together for a pay rise” Its official – Unison’s local government workers have voted to strike on July 10th against the ConDem pay freeze (read here). This raises the prospect of well over a million public sector workers striking together in a ‘Coalition of the Willing’…

  • NSSN 197: Support the Fire-fighters pension strikes!

    NSSN 197: Support the Fire-fighters pension strikes!

    NSSN supporters all over the country visited the FBU picket lines at fire stations giving solidarity to these workers and their union when they took the absolutely solid action last Thursday. Fire Brigades Union members are striking again against attacks on their pension scheme which will mean they pay £4000 more for the same or…

  • Ginger Jentzen from Seattle $15WON to speak at NSSN 2014!

    Ginger Jentzen from Seattle $15WON to speak at NSSN 2014!

    NSSN 196: Seattle $15WON campaigner speaks at NSSN Conference! The NSSN is delighted to announce that a Ginger Jentzen from the victorious $15Now campaign that has lifted the minimum wage to $15 per hour in Seattle will address the NSSN annual conference on July 5th. Undoubtedly, the election last year of Kshama Sawant of Socialist…

  • Occupational Therapists to walk out against bullying

    Occupational Therapists to walk out against bullying

    Unite members working as Occupational Therapists in Greenwich, London, will be out on strike again on 11th and 12th June in protest at bullying, harassment and victimisation. The strike was sparked by the suspension of one of our members the day after she made a grievance complaint about harassment and bullying. The member in question…

  • Mark Harding victory & indefinite UCU Lambeth  strike

    Mark Harding victory & indefinite UCU Lambeth strike

    This week we take the unusual step of headlining with two disputes. We salute the indefinite strike by workers at Lambeth College and hope that the tremendous victory of Mark Harding and his union the RMT will be an inspiration to them, the Unite One Housing convenor Bryan Kennedy as his members take strike action…

  • NSSN 194: Strike together on July 10 for a pay rise!

    NSSN 194: Strike together on July 10 for a pay rise!

    The NUT’s executive committee has voted to make preparations to give notice for strike action on 10 July. This is the day that school support staff unions have put forward as the date when they hope to be able to call a co-ordinated strike. Other public sector unions like the PCS have live ballots already…

  • NSSN 193: Care UK workers say “Enough is enough!”

    NSSN 193: Care UK workers say “Enough is enough!”

    Mags Cowling’s speech to Doncaster Care UK strikers demo on Saturday 17 May “Hi, my name is Mags Cowling and I am a Doncaster Care UK striker (and newly elected Unison shop steward). We were previously employed by the NHS until last year when we were put out for tender and handed to a company…