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.

Thursday, 24 August 2017

Divisional Council Meeting Number 25

Wednesday 26th July 2017 I attended Divisional Council meeting number 25 at the USDAW Redditch office. 

Apologies were received from:
Simon Eggleton - Work.
Maureen Bowen - Personal.
Ian Bateman - Illness.
Paul White - Illness.
Jenny Chilton - Work.
Gareth Davies - Holiday

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

Membership 437,116 nationally and 57,064 divisional. 
Stand down recruitment  - 7,400 hours - 1,969 new members

Academy 2 - 3 officers.
New members - 353

Academy 1 - 10 officers.
New members - 843

June 2017 Membership week brought in a total of 1/092 new members over the four week period.

(1) 9th - 15th October - Membership week.

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

 (3) Women chain makers festival 7th July 2018.

 (4) National political conference 3rd - 4th February 2018.

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

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

 (1) TUC regional committee meeting cancelled due to General election will not be re arranged.

 (2) Jon Mcewan reported back that he had been elected as the South Derbyshire CLP Trade union liaison officer and GC delegate on the CLP executive committee.

The next USDAW Midlands Divisional Council Meeting will be on Wednesday 30th August 2017. 
  The meeting was then closed  
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