About Jon Mcewan

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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, 5 September 2016

Divisional Council Meeting number 15

Wednesday 31st August I attended Divisional Council meeting number 15 at the USDAW Redditch office. 


Apologies were received from

Jenny Chiltern - Holiday
Simon Eggleton - 
Maureen Bowen - Holiday

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

Minutes of the EC meeting
There was no E.C meeting in August..

We discussed the Vote of the E.C to not support Jeremy Corbyn MP and to support his opposition in the second Labour party leadership election in 12 months.

The vote was done by the Deputy General Secretary phoning all E.C members and asking who they wish USDAW to support. 

A meeting to discuss and carry out this vote was requested by 10 E.C members but this was not allowed and the Phone vote went ahead.
I will update with more info once I have it.


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.

Membership total ( presently ) - 434,033 nationally and 56,313 divisional. 

New Members 2016 - 5,606 divisional. 

Academy 2 Finished on Sunday 28th August 2016.
355 new members and 43 reps signed up.

Academy 1.
8 officers started the 2016 Midlands Academy on 09/05/2016.
789 new members and 46 reps signed up so far.

We received the Divisional officers report from Gavin Dadley.

(1) USDAW Organising Awards nominations are now open and so far 31 Nominations have been received.

(2) USDAW Midlands divisional conference - Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th November 2016 at The Britannia Hotel ( Formerly the Hilton ) In Bromsgrove. To cover Equalities and USDAW's 125th Anniversary. We will be organising a raffle with many great prizes and all proceeds to be equally split between MENCAP and the Salvation Army.

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

East Midlands Regional Labour Party Conference.
This will be taking place on Saturday 29th October and the following people will be attending as Delegates from USDAW -

Gavin Dadley
Simon Willmott
Andrea Watts
Claire Poole

Mark Pengelly will be a reserve.

Any Other Business
We then moved on to any other business.

The next USDAW Midlands Divisional Council Meeting will be on Wednesday 28th September 2016. 

  The meeting was then closed  
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