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NSSN 469: Support PCS strike to Save Ealing Tax Office
January 28, 2020 in Bulletins
We headline this week's NSSN bulletin with the continuing action by PCS members in HMRC to stop the closure of Ealing Tax Office to defend jobs. This week, members are on strike over 3 days. Please give your support. PCS: Bring your banner to support Ealing strikers (27 Jan) – We're urging trade union members, supporters and campaigners to come to Ealing on Thursday (30) to show solidarity with our striking HMRC members by bringing their banners for a rally. Our members, who work at International House in Ealing, are facing huge uncertainty as HMRC plans to close their office. […]
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NSSN 467: New year opens with workers' victories
The NSSN is delighted to report that just two weeks into 2020, there have been significant victories in a number of disputes. We look forward to many more during the rest of the year. Please give support and solidarity to all the other workers and their unions taking action, the details of which you can find every week in this bulletin. This week, we headline with three – by Unite in Hackney, United Voices of the World in Greenwich and GMB in Sandwell. Unite: Hackney school bus staff dispute ends with pay and agency worker win (8 Jan) – A […]
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NSSN 466: Donate to the RMT strike fund on SWR
January 7, 2020 in Bulletins
The NSSN sends our New Year greetings to all our supporters and affiliates and commit ourselves to continue to support workers taking action and unions under attack. We are therefore proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with the RMT, who along with the other rail and transport unions are being targeted by the Tories with even more anti-union legislation – effectively a 'scab's charter'. On December 19th, we stood with the RMT on Parliament Square in a rally against the laws proposed in that day's Queens Speech. RMT general secretary Mick Cash warned Boris Johnson that this protest was the […]
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NSSN 465: Fight the new Tory anti-union laws!
December 17, 2019 in Bulletins
The General Election has seen Boris Johnson win a majority. But the NSSN calls on the whole trade union movement to prepare for the fight ahead against his Tory government. Despite his populism, this is no worker-friendly government. As usual, the Tories will continue to serve the interests of big business. Even during the election, we saw Johnson stand with the Establishment High Court judge who ruled out the CWU's Royal Mail national strike ballot despite a massive 97% yes vote on a 76% turnout. Now, Johnson has announced plans to introduce yet more anti-union laws, specifically targeting rail […]
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464: Tories out! Support Corbyn's pro-worker programme!
The NSSN have been campaigning to get the Tories out in the general election. It was the main theme of both our annual conference in July and TUC Rally in September. Even during the election, we've seen the CWU's Royal Mail national strike ballot ruled out in the courts despite a massive 97% yes vote on a 76% turnout. Now, Boris Johnson has announced plans to introduce yet more anti-union laws, specifically targeting rail unions. We are an organisation of rank and file trade unionists supported by ten national unions. We're not affiliated to any political party but Jeremy […]
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NSSN 462: Stop Boris Johnson's new Tory anti-union laws!
November 27, 2019 in Bulletins
The Tories have revealed their General Election manifesto and despite Boris Johnson's populism, it serves the interests of Big Business. This is shown particularly with the planned introduction of even more Tory anti-union laws, on the back of that of Thatcher, Major and Cameron. They say, "We will require that a minimum service operates during transport strikes. Rail workers deserve a fair deal, but it is not fair to let the trade unions undermine the livelihoods of others." This is a scabs charter. Mick Cash, RMT general secretary, said: "Banning strikes is the hallmark of the right-wing junta, not a […]
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NSSN 461: Support the 8-day UCU HE pay and pension strike
In this week's NSSN bulletin, we headline with the 8-day strike by members of the UCU union in higher education. The NSSN gives our full support and solidarity. We remember the incredible 14-day action taken by over 40,000 academic staff at 64 universities to defend their pension from attack by the employers. UCU members are striking again UCU: UCU announces eight days of strikes starting this month at 60 universities – Sixty UK universities will be hit with eight days of strike action from Monday 25 November to Wednesday 4 December, UCU announced today (November 5). Last week UCU members […]
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NSSN 460: Solidarity with the CWU – defend the right to strike!
This week's NSSN bulletin comes out just after the High Court judgement that has ruled against the CWU and its members in Royal Mail. The NSSN gives our total support and solidarity to the CWU and the postal workers. The NSSN national chair Rob Williams said: "This is an absolute disgrace! The CWU smashed the undemocratic voting thresholds in the Tory anti-union laws – 97% yes vote on a 76% turnout. Yet an establishment judge declares it void, so that an official strike couldn't take place in the run-up to Christmas, the busiest time of the year for Royal Mail […]
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459: Tories out – support Corbyn's pro-worker programme!
November 5, 2019 in Bulletins
Finally, the general election has been called – for December 12th. As our supporters know, we have been campaigning for the TUC and the unions to mobilise for this – in order to get rid of the Tories. It was the main theme of both our annual conference in July and TUC Rally in September. As with the one two years ago, there is a clear choice in this election. The NSSN is an organisation of rank and file trade unionists. We aren't affiliated to any political party but Jeremy Corbyn's pro-workers policies that include the following would be […]
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458: BFAWU Nov12 McStrikes & UVW 'autumn of discontent'
October 29, 2019 in Bulletins
This week's NSSN bulletin headlines with two co-ordinated strikes by low-paid workers. This Thursday October 28th, hundreds of outsourced mainly migrant workers in the United Voices of the World union (UVW), will strike together over five different employers – Royal Parks, University of Greenwich, St Mary's Hospital, Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and 200 Gray's Inn Road, the headquarters of ITV and Channel 4. This is part of a series of strikes in these locations. The UVW also have ongoing industrial action ballots at two others: the. UVW is also balloting members at St. George's University and University of East […]
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