The National Shop Stewards Network will be
organising a lobby of the TUC Congress on 11 September to press the
demand for co-ordinated strike action in the public sector in the autumn.
Sign the
petition to be handed in at the lobby here.
25 July
Over 200 people packed into Oystermouth primary school, Swansea on
Friday evening (22 July) to hear coastguards and local campaigners
make the case for saving Swansea coastguard station...read
more
8 July We
believe that 30th June was the opening salvo. To win we need to turn this
three-quarters of a million into 4-5 million in the next round of industrial
action in the autumn, involving all public sector unions, and thereby
scuppering the machinations of the government to drive a wedge into the
trade union movement between the NUT, UCU, ATL and PCS and the other three
big unions Unison, Unite and GMB...read
more
June 28
I am involved in the campaign against Tory Minister Andrew Lansley’s
Health and Social Care Bill, specifically in relation to the removal
of the Secretary of State for Health's legal 'duty to provide' a
comprehensive health service. Our objective is to stop the bill...read
more
Nuneaton anti cuts campaigner releases list of
local cuts
June 28
As teaching and civil service unions prepare to strike to protect
their pensions, an anti-cuts campaigner has produced a comprehensive
list of jobs and services that have been lost in Nuneaton and north
Warwickshire as part of the government’s cutbacks...read
more
14 June As seven
workers from Honda Swindon were leaving the National Shop Stewards
Network (NSSN) conference on Saturday 11 June, one car worker
remarked: "I wish we could have brought a coachload!"...read
more
13 June
A packed hall at the South Camden Community School saw around 350
stewards and workplace reps from unions and workplaces across Britain
gather for the fifth annual conference of the National Shop Stewards
Network...read
more
8 June
The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) conference will meet on
Saturday 11 June in Camden, London, to help take forward the battle
against all cuts and attacks on workers' pay, pensions and conditions
being made by the government, councils and big businesses...read
more
A healthcare worker in Bristol writes, Southern Cross Healthcare is on
the brink of collapse. This company provides residential care to
31,000 people and has 44,000 employees....read
more
Topshop in Cardiff city centre was occupied on Saturday 28 May. This
was in protest at cuts to the NHS taking place while billionaire
business people like Topshop's owner Sir Phillip Green avoid paying
tax...read
more
26 May
The mood to fight the cuts, which brought over half a million onto the
streets on 26 March, has been boiling up. Thousands of trade unionists
have voted to support strike action against the cuts...read
more
24 May
"No ifs, no buts, you can stick your Tory cuts", "Cut my pay, no way"
were the angry chants of Southampton refuse workers out on strike
against savage cuts to pay. It is clear that there is overwhelming
support for the strike action...read
more
23 May
A House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts report "The impact of
the 2007-2008 changes to public service pensions" confirms what unions
have been saying - that there is no need for public sector workers to
be paying in more for their pensions...read
more
23 April NUT
conference voted almost unanimously (with only two abstentions!) to
start a strike ballot against the ConDems’ attacks on their pensions.
The strike day is likely to be on June 30th – already
pencilled in by other public sector unions...read
more
18 AprilHundreds of
call centre workers supported the strike by PCS (civil service union)
in the Department of Work and Pensions today over inhuman working
conditions and a bad service to benefit claimants...read
more
17 April A meeting
of trade unionists and campaigners fighting the cuts has agreed to set
up a Wales Anti Cuts Committee to coordinate the fight back of trade
union branches and anti-cuts campaigns across Wales. So that we can
maximise the impact we can make together to oppose all cuts...read
more
15 April Locked-out BP Saltend workers took their
fight straight to the company's fat cats at BP's AGM in London
Docklands' Excell Centre yesterday. Shareholders big and small had to
face workers from GMB and Unite from the Hull site, although behind a
line of hired bouncers...read
more
Hillingdon Against Cuts public meeting; What next after June 30th
strikes and there impact.
7:00pmFriends Meeting House, York Road, Uxbridge, Hillingdon UB8
18 July
On Monday
18th July the National Shop Stewards Network in London is
collaborating with London RMT, CWU and FBU to call a Joint Union
Meeting, along with speakers from NUT and PCS. Following coordinated
action on 30th June this meeting will be discussing what can be done
to bring out the whole public sector in the autumn
23 July
Derby protest over plans to cut 1400 jobs.
Unions representing the Bombardier workforce in Derby confirmed today
that they will be mobilising a mass demonstration as a result of the
Governments’ refusal to award the company the Thameslink carriage
contract.www.shopstewards.net/news.120
