About Jon Mcewan
- Jon Mcewan
- 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, 19 December 2016
Merry Christmas
I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
I will update this site after the USDAW National Organising Awards 2016 have taken place on Saturday 14th January 2017.
I will give a list of winners for the Awards and I will try to take some photos from the Awards night and upload them as well.
Thank you all for your support in 2016.
Jon Mcewan
Monday, 5 December 2016
Divisional Council meeting number 18
Wednesday 30th November I attended Divisional Council meeting number 18 at the USDAW Redditch office.
Apologies were received from:
Jenny Chilton - Illness
Minutes from the previous DC meeting
We then read the minutes from the previous DC meeting. These were accepted.
Minutes of the recent EC meeting
We received the EC Minutes from Maureen and Andrea.
The small claims limit in the court system is to be increased from £1,000 to £5,000 this would stop the USDAW solicitor's from being able to claim back there costs from the other side in most of the USDAW cases they deal with.
BHS petition fully backed by USDAW and the petition was handed into the Arcadia group recently.
The Midlands division has raised over £50,000 towards the 2016 USDAW MENCAP appeal.
This is a great achievement by the Midlands Division.
The small claims limit in the court system is to be increased from £1,000 to £5,000 this would stop the USDAW solicitor's from being able to claim back there costs from the other side in most of the USDAW cases they deal with.
BHS petition fully backed by USDAW and the petition was handed into the Arcadia group recently.
The Midlands division has raised over £50,000 towards the 2016 USDAW MENCAP appeal.
This is a great achievement by the Midlands Division.
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
Federation reports
East Midlands
No report
West Midlands
No report
Divisional officers report
We received the Deputy Divisional officers report from Gareth Davies.
We received the Deputy Divisional officers report from Gareth Davies.
Membership total - 436,511 nationally and 56,396 divisional.
We received the Divisional officers report from Gavin Dadley.
(1) Divisional Conference Saturday 19th November - Sunday 20th November -
Our guest speaker - Jack Dromey MP gave a very good speech and took lots of questions and answered every one. He was well received and possibly the best speaker I've seen at one of our Conferences.
The work shops ran by the Midlands Equalities group was very good.
A raffle that was organised by the Divisional Council with many great prizes did really well.
We raised £419 which has been sent to MENCAP.
I send a big thank you to everyone who supplied a raffle prize and to everyone who brought raffle tickets. This is an amazing amount to raise.
(2) Divisional Conference 11th and 12th March 2016.
the planned theme is Politics.
The Divisional officers report was read and all points noted/endorsed.
TUC Young Workers Conference
TUC Young Workers Conference
There is one place available.
Nomination - Matthew Wright
Reserve - Russell Jones
Co-op National Committee Election.
Only one nomination was received so Kevin Lowe is elected to the Co-op National Committee.
Nomination - Matthew Wright
Reserve - Russell Jones
Co-op National Committee Election.
Only one nomination was received so Kevin Lowe is elected to the Co-op National Committee.
USDAW National Organising Awards 2016
After the Midlands Divisional award winners were revealed at the Midlands Divisional Conference I can now reveal the award winners.
1) Individual Organising Award - Julie Haycraft.
2) Individual Recruitment Award - Gareth Coates.
3) Team Recruitment and Organising Award - Phillip Turner & Andy Shepherd.
4) The Campaigns Award - Simon Willmott.
5) Health and Safety Rep Award - Jon Mcewan.
6) Union Learning Rep Award - Anita Adamczyk.
7) The Equalities Award - Joan Samuels.
8) Most Promising New Activist Award - Russell Jones.
9) Outstanding Achievement Award - Mark Halfpenny.
2) Individual Recruitment Award - Gareth Coates.
3) Team Recruitment and Organising Award - Phillip Turner & Andy Shepherd.
4) The Campaigns Award - Simon Willmott.
5) Health and Safety Rep Award - Jon Mcewan.
6) Union Learning Rep Award - Anita Adamczyk.
7) The Equalities Award - Joan Samuels.
8) Most Promising New Activist Award - Russell Jones.
9) Outstanding Achievement Award - Mark Halfpenny.
I send my congratulations to every category winner and I wish you all the best of luck and again well done to everyone who was nominated.
Any Other Business
We then moved on to any other business.
The next USDAW Midlands Divisional Council Meeting will be on Wednesday 25th January 2017.
The meeting was then closed
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