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I have been a member of the USDAW trade union since 2001, I'm a shop steward, Health and Safety rep, Union Learning Rep, branch chairman and I'm an USDAW Divisional Councillor in the Midlands division - Elected in 2015. On Wednesday 24th June 2015 I was elected as the Vice Chairman of the USDAW Midlands Divisional Council until 25th May 2016. On Wednesday 31st May 2017 I was elected as the Vice Chairman of the USDAW Midlands Divisional Council until 25th April 2018. I will be using this website to keep you informed of what I will be doing as one of your USDAW Divisional Councillors. I will try to update this website with information about meetings attended, courses attended, conferences attended and any other duties I do as one of your USDAW Divisional Councillors in the Midlands. I will also try to add photos from events that I attend and I will try to post news that members of USDAW might find useful.

Monday, 4 April 2016

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.
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