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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, 3 October 2016

Divisional Council Meeting Number 16

Wednesday 28th September I attended Divisional Council meeting number 16 at the USDAW Redditch office. 


Apologies were received from

Gavin Dadley - Union Duties
Simon Eggleton - 
Paul White - Illness

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

Minutes of the EC meeting
There minutes were read by Maureen.

A meeting to discuss and carry out a vote for the Labour party leadership was requested by 10 E.C members but this was not allowed.This happened as The  Deputy General Secretary had already started to call the EC Members.

ADM 2017 - Live streaming.
The 2017 ADM will be partly streamed live. This is likely to be the main timetabled debates and guest speakers.
I will update further at a later date.

ADM 2017 - Subs increase.
A vote was held to decide if a subs increase would take place in 2017.

The result is Scale A and Scale C will be increased by 2p each Scale.
This will of course be subject to S1 being debated on and voted on at the 2017 ADM. 


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 ) - 435,187 nationally and 56,305 divisional.  

Academy 1.
8 officers started the 2016 Midlands Academy on 09/05/2016.
969 new members and 62 reps signed up so far.

We received the Divisional officers report from Gareth Davies.

(1) USDAW Organising Awards nominations are now closed and the Divisional Council will be voting on the regional winners at the October meeting. 129 nominations 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.

There are several raffle prizes that have already been sorted out by Divisional Council members.
The raffle will be drawn on the Sunday morning. The raffle tickets will be £1 a strip.

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

Black and Asian Members weekend workshop.
delegates and reserves to be listed once confirmed.


National Retail Trades Conference.
Nominated 1 Co-op - Julie Haycraft
Nominated 2 Co-op - Michelle Whitehead
Nominated 3 Co-op - Kevin Lowe
Nominated 4 Janet Ruff
Nominated 5 Sara Farrar
Nominated 6 Paul Holland
Nominated 7 Jenny Sailsbury
Nominated 8 Cheryl Wilson

Nominated 9 Narinder Rai
Nominated 10 Ian Bateman

National Retail Trades Conference Proposition.
The proposition was endorsed.

SATA National Conference.

Nominated 1 Richard McDermid
Nominated 2 Greg Hort
Nominated 3 Darren Vickery
Nominated 4 Sally Zanzottera


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

The next USDAW Midlands Divisional Council Meeting will be on Wednesday 26th October 2016. 

  The meeting was then closed  
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