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, 26 June 2017

Divisional Council Meeting Number 23

Wednesday 31th May 2017 I attended Divisional Council meeting number 23 at the USDAW Redditch office. 

Apologies were received from:
Simon Eggleton - Work.
Maureen Bowen - Personal.
Paul White - Illness.
Jenny Chilton - Illness.
Kate Macleod - Holiday.
Gareth Davies - Union Business.

Election of Chairman
Kate Macleod was elected as the Chairman.

Election of Vice chairman
Jon Mcewan was elected as the Vice chairman.

Election of East Midlands Federation Observer.
Jackie Hendry was elected as the East Midlands Federation observer.

The meeting was chaired by Jon Mcewan.

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 Andrea.


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 Divisional officers report and Deputy Divisional officers report from Gavin Dadley.

We held a moments silence in respect to these killed and injured in the Manchester Bombings.


Membership 430,967 nationally and 56,405 divisional. 
Stand down recruitment  - 5,490 hours - 1,458 new members.

Academy 2 - 3 officers.
New members - 231

Academy 1 - 10 officers.
new members - 135

(1) Sat 1st July - Women Chain makers festival.

(2) November Divisional Conference - Saturday 25th November and Sunday 26th November to be held at the Stratford Manor Hotel.

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

National young workers Weekend
We looked through the applications. 
The five nominees and two reserves are as follows -

Nominees
R.Tims
A.Serdean
G.Carter
L.Pearce
J.Abbott

First reserve
R,Jones

Second reserve
M.Keane

National Young Workers Committee 
We nominated L.pearce.


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

Congratulations were extended to both the new Chair - Kate Macleod and Vice-Chair - Jon Mcewan.

A vote of thanks was extended to both Paul White and Kate Macleod for carrying out the roles of Divisional council Chair and Vice-Chair respectively over the past twelve months.



The next USDAW Midlands Divisional Council Meeting will be on Wednesday 28th June 2017. 
  The meeting was then closed  
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