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.

Sunday, 30 September 2018

USDAW DIVISIONAL COUNCIL MEETING AUGUST 2018

Wednesday 29th August 2018 I attended the Divisional Council meeting at the Usdaw Redditch office.

Apologies were received from:
Claire Thomas. 
Julie Haycraft. 
Sue Kenny. 

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 read through the EC minutes.

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 Gareth Davies and Gavin Dadley.

Membership 435,515 nationally and 57,445 divisional.
 
Stand down recruitment - 1,845 new members recruited. 
183 reps done stand down so far. 
8,420 hours of stand down done so far out of a target of 12,000. 

Academy 1 - 2018.
8 organising officers.

Members recruited - 737
Reps recruited - 63

Academy 2 - 2018
4 organising officers.

Members recruited - 400
Reps recruited - 38

(1) Divisional Conference November 24th / 25th will take place at the Hilton hotel Warwick. 

(2) USDAW national organising award winner won the T.U.C award for ulr’s. 


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

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


The next USDAW Midlands Divisional Council Meeting will be on Wednesday 26th September 2018. 

The meeting was then closed  
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