USDAW - 70th Annual Delegate Meeting.

The USDAW 70th Annual ADM will soon be taking place in Blackpool and I have received copies of the following Paperwork -

Interim agenda - Propositions and amendments
Special delegate meeting - propositions involving alterations to rules
2015 Annual report and financial statements
Working Carers Under Pressure - Executive Council Statement
The Tory Attack on Trade Unions - Executive Council Statement
Europe - Executive Council statement.

This will be my 9th USDAW ADM but it will be my first as an USDAW Divisional Council member for the Midlands.

I have read through most of the paperwork and I'm looking forward to the Conference as there are lots of interesting Propositions that have been well written and affect lots of USDAW members.

I will try to update this site at the end of each day of the USDAW ADM. If I'm not able to do this I will do a report once I get home.

I have a Divisional Council meeting on Wednesday 20th April where we will discuss last minute details regarding the ADM as well as our normal Divisional Council agenda items.

Divisional Council Meeting number Ten.

Wednesday 30th March I attended Divisional Council meeting number Ten at the USDAW Redditch office. 

Apologies were received from:

Simon Eggleton

Jenny Chilton

Minutes from the previous DC meeting

We then read the minutes from the previous DC meeting. These were accepted. 

Minutes of the ebruary EC meeting

We received the EC Minutes from Andrea and Maureen.

Minutes from other Divisional Councils

We took a look at the minutes from other Divisional Councils. These were accepted. 

Central office circulars and press releases

We looked through a selection of circulars from central office and a selection of press releases. These were accepted. 

Federation reports

East Midlands

No report 

West Midlands

No report

Divisional officers report
We received the Deputy Divisional officers report from Gareth.

Membership total ( presently ) - 435,203 nationally and 56,761 divisional. 

New Members 2016 - 1,910 divisional. 

Academy 2 started Monday 29th February 2016.

Academy 1 update. 22 candidates invited to attend a two day Development centre held on 15th and 16th March. 19 candidates attended

8 candidates invited onto the 2016 Midlands Academy.

We received the Divisional officers report from Gavin Dadley.

(1) USDAW 125th Anniversary year. A bus will be at ADM decked out in the USDAW logo and this will travel around the regions over the year..

(2) The feedback from the Divisional Conference was all positive and the guest speakers went down well.

The collection for MENCAP raised £180

(3) ADM stewarding duties by the Midlands office.

The Divisional officers report was read and all points noted/endorsed.

We then needed to vote on who would attend Four conferences.

TUC Disabled workers Conference

Nominated - G. Usher

Reserve 1 - D. Collins

Reserve 2 - S. Green

TUC LGBT Conference

Nominated - J. Haycraft

Reserve 1 - M. Wright

Reserve 2 - M. Allen

Reserve 3 - J. Halliwell

Reserve 4 - S. Eggleton

USDAW Food Manufacturing Conference

Nominated 1 - C. Thorley

Nominated 2 - A. James

Nominated 3 - R. Davis

Nominated 4 - K. O'Boyle

Nominated 5 - N. Rana

Nominated 6 - J. Young

Reserve 1 - P. Coppard

Reserve 2 - P. Kumar

USDAW Warehouse and Distribution Conference

Nominated 1 - S. Fletcher

Nominated 2 - S. Willmott

Nominated 3 - A. Clarke

Nominated 4 - J. Lees

Nominated 5 - P. Cheshire

Nominated 6 - G. Elliott

Reserve 1 - A. Rogers

Reserve 2 - C. Washington

Reserve 3 - S. Kenny

The next USDAW Midlands Divisional Council meeting will be on Wednesday 20th April 2016.

Any other Business

we then moved on to any other business.

The meeting was then closed.