“The campaign against cuts to patient
safety via the use of unqualified staff and the de-recognition of Unite the
Union at Yorkshire Ambulance Service continues.
All Trades Councils have been written
to requesting urgent action by Yorks & Humberside TUC.
Please email David Whiting david.whiting@yas.nhs.uk and ask him
to justify the reduction in patient safety by using unqualified staff.
We have learnt that Mr Whiting has a
history of implementing cuts and thereby causing industrial unrest . He
subsequently left the area to take up his position at YAS where he began to
implement the cuts that caused this current dispute.
We have learned that the ambulance
response times are getting worse and the trust have issued instructions for
drivers to treat non-emergency calls as emergency to get there quicker so we
are seeking advice on this as it could mean that our members are prosecuted for
unwarranted use of sirens etc.
I attach a petition
that we intend to present at the next Trust Board meeting on 3rd September.
Please could you get as many signatures as possible and return to Tina Garbutt,
Unite the Union, 55 Call Lane, Leeds, LS17BW to arrive no later than Friday
30th August.
Even if you only get a few names on
your sheet it will still be worthwhile.”
In Solidarity Steve Miller Unite EC
(personal capacity)
*****
This struggle and many others like it
around the country in the NHS show why it is vital that the TUC demonstration
outside the Tory Party Conference in Manchester is massive. It has been called
to ‘Save our NHS – Defend Jobs & Services. No to Austerity’. For more
details, including transport - TUC Unite
Unison
The NSSN will be having a contingent behind our banner: ‘for a 24 hour
general strike to stop the Tory cuts!’ March with us!
However we do believe co-ordinated
industrial action is a key part of the campaign to save the NHS and fight
austerity overall and its urgent. Therefore we will continue to lobby the TUC
now and also at TUC conference on Sep 8th. Please join us! We are pleased to announce this lobby is now supported by
five TUC Joint Consultative Committee (TUCJCC) Regional Representatives, the
Campaign for Trade Union Freedom and the TUC National Unemployed Centres
Combine.
Lobby the TUC Congress on Sunday
September 8th – All out Together in November! NSSN rally at the TUC Congress at
Bournemouth on September 8th followed by a lobby of Congress.
Confirmed speakers: Bob Crow,
Mark Serwotka, Steve Gillan, Ronnie Draper and Ian Lawrence (RMT, PCS, POA,
BFAWU and NAPO general secretaries respectively) Alec McFadden (North West
representative on TUCJCC for trades councils and also President Merseyside
County TUC), Teresa MacKay TUCJCC & Ipswich Trades Council and Linda Taaffe
(NSSN).
A rally will take place between
12.30pm-2.30pm Hardy Suite, Hermitage Hotel, Exeter Rd, Bournemouth (opposite
Bournemouth International Centre, TUC Congress venue). There will be a coach to
the lobby from Hampshire. To book a seat on transport from your area, email info@shopstewards.net or if you are
able to arrange some and have space, let us know.
Feel free to use our Model Motion: Lobby TUC 8
September! The FULL affiliation letter and motion can be downloaded
from our website. Consider adding ‘That their general secretaries should meet
with other willing unions prior to the TUC to liaise on co-ordination (&)
we fully support the 29th September NHS March in Manchester.
And if you couldn’t attend
the last serious and inspiring NSSN conference please see a Video from that has
been put together and share with others. here
This weeks bulletin is mostly put
together by Rob Williams chair NSSN
Union News
RMT
‘Boris Bike’ workers strike & J33
protest (August 12) -RMT
members working for Serco, who operate the London bicycle scheme today started
a 48-hour strike… read more
RMT Serco Barclays London bike strike
starts Sunday in fight for fair pay and workplace justice (August 9) - members of transport union RMT will
begin 48 hours of strike action on Sunday evening on the so-called Serco
Barclays “Boris” bikes after a 100% vote for strike action by the workforce on
the London cycle scheme over a range of grievances read
more and
here
As Government confirms latest ticket
robbery RMT reveals that over the last decade rail fares have risen faster than
house prices (August 13) -
As the Government confirms the latest rail fares robbery linked to today’s RPI
figures, meaning that fares will soar by an average 4.1%, rail union RMT
revealed that rail fares have easily outstripped the soaring housing market read more
RMT to ballot for strike action over
tube and rail job threat (August 12)
- RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said: “RMT has warned that the Government cuts
of 12.5% to TFL budgets would result in thousands of job losses and now the
numbers are being confirmed we are prepared to ballot across the Capital for
strike action in defence of jobs and services read
here
Unite
Pub delivery drivers across the UK to
be balloted for industrial action (13 August) - Nearly 1,000 workers at transport and logistics
giant, Kuehne + Nagel Drinks Logistics (KNDL) are being balloted this week for
industrial action over continual breaches in working agreements read
more
Serco defence workers to decide next
move in pay dispute (12 August)
- Serco workers on Ministry of Defence (MoD) contracts at three Lincolnshire
RAF bases will be deciding on the next steps this week in their campaign
against a paltry one per cent pay offer read
more
Glass workers in Yorkshire and
Scotland suspend strikes, as they vote on improved pay offer (9 August) - Workers at glass manufacturers
Ardagh Glass in Yorkshire and Scotland have suspended strike action, due to
start today (Friday 9 August), as they consider a new improved 5.5 per cent
two-year pay deal read
more
FBU
Pension posters and leaflet available
for download (August 13) - As
the members’ ballot on industrial action over pensions enters it’s last
fortnight, we’ve added posters and an A5 leaflet to the site to download.
Copies of the posters should by now have arrived at all branches, and the
leaflet has been sent to all members’ home addresses read more
PCS
Date set for Pickles legal challenge
(13 August 2013) - A
trial date has been set for next month for our legal challenge to Eric Pickles
over a breach of our members' contracts. The Department for Communities and
Local Government wants to end the decades-old system, known as 'check off', for
collecting union subscriptions through salaries read
more
Solidarity with miners' justice
campaign (13 August) -
PCS is backing calls for an independent enquiry into policing at the Orgreave
coke works during the Miners' Strike, one of the most notorious incidents of
the dispute read
more
CWU
Support Bridgewater Royal Mail
Strikes (August 9) - Circular
sent by CWU branch chair Dave Chapple. Bridgwater Royal Mail dispute: thank you
from 110 strikers for your financial support and picket-line solidarity! Our
next four days of strike action are this Saturday August 10th, Monday August
12th, Saturday August 17th, and Monday August 19th: please continue your support!
read
more
CWU seeks job assurances following
ROMEC sale (9th August)
- CWU has today (Friday) expressed concern at the sale by Balfour Beatty of its
49% share in Royal Mail maintenance company ROMEC read
more
Parcelforce staff say no to
privatisation (7th August)
- Staff working in Parcelforce have voted by more than nine to one against
plans to privatise Royal Mail Group, of which they are a part read
more
Airwave talks reach impasse (7th
August) - Airwave's
intransigence on plans to attack the terms and conditions of existing workers
is looking increasingly likely to trigger a full-scale industrial relations
crisis read
more
GMB
Ballot On Police Staffs Pay (August
13) - GMB Members
Employed As Police Staff In England And Wales To Be Consulted On 1% Pay Offer
For 2013. As the employers were unable to enter into negotiations because of
government pay policy a vote to reject the offer carries with it a willingness
to undertake industrial action says GMB read more
Strikes At Brighton Golf Courses
(August 13) - Further
GMB Strikes At Brighton Golf Courses From 19th August In Dispute About Up To
£4,000 Pay Cut For Green Keepers read
more
Strike Action at Stansted In Pay
Dispute (August 12)
- GMB Members Overwhelming Vote For Strike Action At Stansted Airport Over Pay
Cuts For Checked In Baggage Scanning Staff. The company were told that pay cuts
were not acceptable to our members Mitie went ahead and imposed these pay cuts
from June leading to strike action between 23rd to 26th August says GMB read
more
GMB Strike Action In Liverpool
(August 9) - GMB
Members Employed By Contractor Amey In Liverpool To Strike Again On Friday 16th
And 23rd In Dispute Over Jobs And Pay. City Council should step in to get this
dispute settled so that a normal service can be delivered to the people of
Liverpool says GMB read more
New Offer To Glass Workers (August 9) - Ardagh Glass Strike Suspended To
Allow Members To Consider New Offer Tabled By Employer. As the company have
tabled this revised offer we feel duty bound to put to our members in an
indicative ballot says GMB. Strike action due to begin today 9th August at 4
Ardagh Glass sites at Doncaster, Irvine, Knottingley and Barnsley has been
suspended to allow union members to consider a new offer tabled by the employer
read more
NUT & NASUWT
Next phase of Rallies of Education:-
London Saturday 14th September 2013
Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre,
Broad Sanctuary, London, Greater London SW1P 3EE
11am to 12.30pm Speakers: Christine
Blower, General Secretary, NUT; Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary,
NASUWT. Directions to venue:
Nottingham Saturday 14th September
2013
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Wollaton Street,
Nottingham, NG1 5RH
11am to 12.30pm Speakers: Chris
Keates, General Secretary, NASUWT and Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary,
NUT. Directions to venue:
Cambridge Saturday 21st September 2013
The University Arms Hotel, Regent
Street, Cambridge, CB2 1AD
11am to 12.30pm Speakers: Chris
Keates, General Secretary, NASUWT and Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary,
NUT. Directions to venue: http://goo.gl/maps/TrFCv
Exeter Saturday 21st September 2013
The Methodist Church Sidwell Street
(nr Odeon Cinema), 60-64 Sidwell Street, Exeter, EX4 6PH
11am to 12.30pm Speakers: Christine
Blower, General Secretary, NUT and Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary,
NASUWT. Directions to venue: http://goo.gl/maps/EpmZY
UNISON
Defend the Four: Court awards £49,000 - On Friday 9 August, the employment
tribunal dealing with the Unison leadership's illegal banning of the 'Socialist
Party Four' from office issued its judgement as to what compensation Unison
would have to pay read
more
Paediatric situation critical
declares UNISON (August 13) - The
news that in-patient paediatric services for Bedford are unlikely to be
returning to the Bedford Hospital NHS Trust is bad news for the dedicated
staff, the community and is 'situation critical' for those with children who
rely on these services to be delivered locally read
more
TSSA
Now Boris Plans to Sack Key Safety
Staff Across Tube Network (13 August)
- Mayor Accused Of Being "Foolish and Irresponsible". A new safety
row erupted today over secret plans by Boris Johnson to close all 268 Tube
offices across the capital in the next two years and axe thousands of jobs read
more
Boris to axe 6,000 jobs & 268
Tube ticket offices (12 August)
- London Mayor Boris Johnson is to axe 6,000 tube and rail jobs and close all
268 tube ticket offices across the capital, it was revealed today read
more
ASLEF
Action for Rail fare protests (13
Aug) - ASLEF were
among the many campaigners handing out postcards at 47 stations across the
country this morning, calling on MPs to put people before profits and return
our railways to public ownership read
more
NUJ
Indy management called back to the
table on eve of NUJ action (August 8) - The NUJ is calling on the management of the Independent
to re-engage in meaningful talks over the future of its titles read more
NUJ members negotiate best pay deal
for Usborne staff (August 8) - NUJ
members working at children's publisher Usborne have voted to accept an
improved pay offer of 3.3 per cent for all staff. The original offer
from management was 2.5 per cent read more
Blacklisting
& Victimisation
Campaign against ‘blacklisting’
Chicago airport bidder goes stateside (August 13) - A delegation from Britain’s largest
union, Unite, is in Chicago today (Tuesday 13 August) lobbying councillors and
decision makers involved in the Chicago Midway Airport privatisation about
Ferrovial’s involvement in ‘blacklisting’ on the London Crossrail project read
more
New blacklisting video from Reel News
(August 9) - Taken
from the Reel News Website. There has been huge strides for the campaign
against the illegal blacklisting of trade unionists over the past 18 months;
the sparks victory in the BESNA dispute, the Scottish affairs select committee
report, the high court conspiracy trial coming up against Sir Robert McAlpine,
numerous tribunals and actions in the European court of human rights, and now
UNITE and GMB putting serous resources into the campaign. Now everything
is centering on the Crossrail project, where 17 of the 38 known blacklisters
are operating. Join the campaign and get blacklisted trade unionists back where
they belong – on sites organising see
video here
McAlpine drags rivals into its
blacklist defence (9 August)
- Sir Robert McAlpine has added at least nine other contractors as
co-defendants against a multi-million pound legal action by blacklisted
building workers. Solicitors Guney, Clark and Ryan are acting for more than 100
construction workers who launched the compensation claim last year. The claim
was made against McAlpine, who were defending the action on their own read more
On Saturday 24 August 2013 Croydon
Trades Union Council is holding a special event to support George Tapp who was
so seriously injured while campaigning against Black Listing. The event will also be an opportunity
for Trades Unionists to show general support for the Anti-Blacklisting
Campaign. The event at Ruskin House (Croydon's Trade Union and Labour Centre)
23 Coombe Road, Croydon CR0 1BD will be addressed by leading speakers from the
Anti-Blacklisting Campaign. There will be live music and the Ruskin House Club
Bar will be open from 7pm
Whipps Cross NHS - EMERGENCY! You are
needed to defend your job, the hospital and your union! Public meeting - Monday 19th August
at 7.30pm, William Morris community centre Greenleaf road, London e17 6qq
Pentonville 5 Annual Commemoration
1972-2013: remember our history – fight for today fight the attack on
unions - Organised
by Cities of London & Westminster Trades Council with Islington Trades Union
Council - Dockers Network - Greater London Association of Trade Union Councils
Friday 16 August 2013 18.00, Unite HQ 128 Theobald’s Road London wc1x 8tn
Other News
The Mass Sleep Out (TMSO) is a
national day of action being held on August 24th, 2013. On this day people will gather in
towns and cities across the UK and sleep on the streets, to raise awareness of
the impending mass homelessness brought on by the bedroom tax and other
government cuts read more Reports from
zero-hour contract protests in London, Dundee and Sheffield (August 12) see Youth
Fight for Jobs website Plymouth Youth Fight for Jobs protest and
public meeting to fight zero-hour contracts (August 12)
International (see also labourstart)
Peru: Civil Service Act threatens
trade union rights read
more
AUGUST
15 NAPO meeting ‘The Probation Service, Public Service or
Private Profit’ 7pm at City College, Brighton on Pelham Street,
17 Brighton Benefits Road Show Moulsecoomb 12noon
19 Whipps Cross NHS - EMERGENCY! You are needed to defend
your job, the hospital and your union! Public meeting - Monday 19th August at
7.30pm, William Morris community centre Greenleaf road, London e17 6qq
24 Mass Sleep-out New Steine Gardens
starting from 2pm Drawing attention to homelessness which will be caused by the
Bedroom Tax & the assault on housing rights
Dublin Lock out Conference
9-7pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Sq, London, Austin Harney and Gerry
Downing, CRAIC Fighting the Cuts, PO Box No. 59188, London, NW2 9LJ; Email: au5tin67@yahoo.co.uk ; Mobile:
07980255642
29 August to 4 September DPAC Week of
Action Local events/actions to be confirmed
Aug to end of Nov ‘Call me Mr. Robeson’ play
SEPTEMBER
8 NSSN Rally at the TUC
Congress at Bournemouth followed by a lobby of Congress.
12 noon-3pm Hardy
Suite, Hermitage Hotel, Exeter Rd, Bournemouth (opposite Bournemouth
International Centre – TUC conference venue).
14 NUT Rallies for Education London
and Nottingham
22 September Demo at the Labour Party
Conference, Brighton Centre/Seafront – Details to TBC ‘Lest They Forget’
organising meeting to be arranged shortly
28 NUT Rallies for Education
Cambridge and Exeter
29 National TUC Demonstration to save
our NHS at Tory party Conference
30 Manchester Unite local government
branch is hosting a showing of the exhibition about Liverpool’s socialist
council 1983-87. Speakers include: Len McCluskey, Tony Mulhearn, Felicity
Dowling, Ted Knight & Kevin Bennett. Methodist Central Hall, Oldham St.
Manchester. Tel: 0161-234-1896 email james.thornton@unitetheunion.org.
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