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2 May 2012
National Shop Stewards Network 6th annual conference
Saturday 9 June 11am - 4pm
Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Speakers include:
* Bob Crow, transport union RMT general secretary
* Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary
* A leading Rank and File member of the construction workers' campaign
* Kevin Courtney, NUT deputy general secretary
TUSC on the 28 March 2012 NUT London strike and demonstration, photo Socialist Party
2 May 2012
TUSC: the electoral alternative to the parties of the rich
Round-up across the country: All together in Liverpool to support TUSC mayoral stand: 300 people attended the Liverpool pre-election rally for mayoral candidate Tony Mulhearn and other Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidates across Merseyside, writes Dave Walsh.
27 April 2012
Waltham Forest rally: TUSC standing leaders with 'bottle' to fight cuts
100 people attended the Waltham Forest (NE London) TUSC meeting to hear RMT general secretary Bob Crow and TUSC candidates Nancy Taaffe and Jenny Sutton
25 April 2012
Hillingdon - Bob Crow: Nearly 70 local people in Uxbridge, west London, listened to Bob Crow argue the case for TUSC on 18 April...
7 December 2011
Reinstate Paul Kelly: Solidarity with Portsmouth RMT
On 11 November Paul Kelly, an elected transport union RMT rep at Wightlink Ferries in Portsmouth was dismissed on trumped-up charges and what many workers see as an anti-union vendetta by management...
7 December 2011
Construction workers fight a 35% cut in wages
The biggest of the 'Dirty 7' big contractors, Balfour Beatty, may have outlawed the strike by their electricians but today saw protests and walkouts all over the country. NB: Contribution from an electrician added on 9.12.11 (see end)
10,000 marched. Photo Paul Mattsson
28 July 2011
Nationalise Bombardier to save jobs
Train manufacturer Bombardier has announced the loss of 1,400 jobs following the government decision to award the Thameslink rail project to German company, Siemens. Around 10,000 marched against job cuts on Saturday 23 July in the biggest demonstration in Derby for decades...
Bob Crow at NSSN lobby
4 March 2011
RMT secures major court victory on right to strike
Press release from RMT: Transport union RMT this morning secured a major victory in the Court of Appeal over UK strike laws that will pave the way for millions to take action over cuts to jobs and services in the months ahead...
London anti-cuts demonstration jointly called by the NSSN, RMT, NUT, FBU, PCS and other unions, photo Paul Mattsson
19 January 2011
Discussing an NSSN anti-cuts campaign
National Shop Stewards Network conference 22 January: In the debates and discussions that have taken place in the run up to the NSSN special anti-cuts conference on 22 January, a number of assumptions and misunderstandings have been raised in meetings around the country and also circulated on the internet...
12 January 2011
National Shop Stewards Network: Strategy and tactics - a dialogue
Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union (RMT), yesterday sent an email to the National Shop Stewards Network and the Socialist Party, calling for unity in the anti-cuts struggles...
Bob Crow at NSSN lobby of TUC, photo Suleman Civi
12 January 2011
Joint statement on NSSN anti-cuts conference
Joint statement on meeting between Bob Crow (RMT general secretary), Alex Gordon (RMT president), Bill Mullins (Socialist Party and co-organiser of the NSSN) and Linda Taaffe (Socialist Party and secretary of the NSSN)...
11 January 2011
Correspondence with Bob Crow on fighting the cuts
Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union (RMT), yesterday sent an email to the National Shop Stewards Network and the Socialist Party, calling for unity in the anti-cuts struggles...
Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, addresses National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi
29 September 2010
What's the point of the unions?
Following the highest-profile TUC conference in almost a generation, the Dispatches programme: What's the point of the unions? promised to shine a light on trade unionism in 2010, writes Greg Maughan.
24 September 2010
How the Tories were defeated last time around
The poll tax: It is not an accident that the most militant trade union leaders in Britain today, such as Bob Crow (general secretary of the RMT transport workers' union), are calling for the "biggest movement since the poll tax" to defeat the cuts...
15 September 2010
National Shop Stewards Network lobby - Manchester: I didn't want to get up at 6am in the morning on my Sunday off to make a four hour journey to Manchester and then a four hour journey back to ask the TUC Congress to name the day for a national demonstration, writes Nancy Taaffe.
15 September 2010
TUC: Build for action against cuts
The first day of the TUC opened with reports of the congress as the main item on the breakfast news, showing footage of the National Shop Stewards Network lobby as the backdrop, writes Greg Maughan.
N30 - Millions strike back at Con-Dem government on 30 November 2011, photo Socialist Party
14 September 2010
National Shop Stewards Network lobbies TUC
NSSN Lobby of the Trades Union Congress in Manchester
1 September 2010
Battles ahead on London Underground
On 24 August, reps from transport unions TSSA and RMT met to discuss the first ever joint strike between the two unions on London Underground, writes Reg Johnstone, RMT.
23 August 2010
London tube unions announce strike action
On 24 August, reps from transport unions TSSA and RMT met to discuss the first ever joint strike between the two unions on London Underground, writes Reg Johnstone.
18 August 2010
Tube staff vote for action against cuts
"RMT members have sent a clear message in this ballot that they will not sit by while the tracks are turned into a death trap and our tube stations and platforms are left unstaffed." Transport union RMT general secretary Bob Crow declared after 43% of RMT members had voted by a 76% margin to take, writes Reg Johnstone.
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