NSL workers picket the Crowndale Road base, July 11, 2012
The proposed strike next week amongst staff employed by NSL on the Camden contract is no longer taking place. A settlement has been reached which will result in:
• A 4% rise on the hourly rate, backdated to 1 September 2012
• A 3% rise on top of that increase, with effect from 1 April 2013, and
• A further 3% increase from 1 April 2014. Continue reading
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The week commencing 5 November has been dubbed ‘Living Wage Week’ across Britain. For Camden staff who regularly use Outlook it has been hard to miss the fact that the Council’s spin doctors thought it appropriate to insert the logo for the week on staff’s email signatures along with the proud boast that ‘Camden is a London Living Wage Employer’. This recently acquired status comes some two and a half years after the Labour Party regained control of the Council with a manifesto pledge to introduce the London Living Wage (LLW). Continue reading
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For the second time in the space of less than three months the Council’s leadership is making much of its commitment to the (eventual) implementation of the London Living Wage (LLW), not only for directly employed workers and agency staff working in the Council but for employees on outsourced contracts. These are mainly, though far from exclusively migrant workers, providing so-called ancillary services such as cleaning and catering, but also working in revenue generating functions such as parking enforcement. Continue reading
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Dozens of Camden UNISON members on the NSL parking enforcement contract rounded off their third consecutive day of strike action with a march along the pavement between Holborn tube and Euston mainline stations on Saturday afternoon (11 August). Fifty strikers and supporters, chanting ‘Low Pay, No Way’ and ‘NSL: No Slave Labour’, carried placards and UNISON flags along the route that ran parallel to the Olympic lane that has operated from the Kingsway through Upper Woburn Place during the course of the Games.
Some 160 Camden UNISON members, employed by parking enforcement contractor NSL, will mount their second strike in a month from Thursday 9 – Saturday 11 August. The three-day walkout amid the closing stages of the 2012 Olympics follows a strongly supported two-day strike on 11 and 12 July. The action comes after members, currently paid just £8.09 an hour and working a basic 42.5 hour week, unanimously rejected NSL’s latest offer. Continue reading
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AFTER A highly effective two-day strike UNISON members, employed by Camden Council’s parking contractor NSL, have decided to put their case for a substantial pay rise and other improvements in their terms and conditions to members of the north London authority’s Cabinet on Wednesday evening (18 July). The UNISON branch has requested a deputation to address the Labour-controlled Cabinet about the dispute against the background of a report on the London Living Wage. Continue reading
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NEARLY 160 Camden UNISON members are poised to strike for the first time on Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 July. The workers, employed by Camden Council’s parking contractor NSL, voted overwhelmingly to walk out in a recent postal ballot with nearly 98% supporting strike action on a 63% turnout. The decisive ‘yes’ vote came after NSL had initially dismissed out of hand UNISON’s pay and conditions claim, first lodged this February. Continue reading
Demonstration in support of NSL workers on 3 July
If you work for NSL in London, please read this.
You might have heard that your colleagues working for NSL on the Camden contract are about to take strike action in support of their pay claim against the company. At present Civil Enforcement Officers in Camden earn £8.09 per hour and our claim is for an increase of £2.50 per hour to bring them in line with NSL workers in Waltham Forest. Continue reading
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