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.

Friday, 2 November 2018

USDAW DIVISIONAL COUNCIL MEETING OCTOBER 2018

Wednesday 31st October 2018 I attended the Divisional Council meeting at the Usdaw Redditch office.

Apologies were received from:
Gareth Davies. 
Andrea Watts. 

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
A report was given by Jackie Hendry. 
The federation weekend covered domestic abuse and was a very emotional subject. 
A raffle raised £263 for a domestic abuse charity. 

West Midlands
A report was given by Michelle Whitehead. 
The federation school covered USDAWS Legal plus. 
ROWLEY DICKINSON were in attendance. 

Divisional officers report
We received the Deputy Divisional officers report and Divisional officers report from Gavin Dadley. 

Membership 438,354 nationally and 57,822 divisional.
 
Stand down recruitment - 2,404 new members recruited. 
194 reps done stand down so far. 
10,969 hours of stand down done so far out of a target of 12,000. 

Academy 1 - 2018.
7 organising officers.

Members recruited - 1304
Reps recruited - 73

Academy 2 - 2018
4 organising officers.

Now finished. Final figures. 
Members recruited - 400
Reps recruited - 38

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

(2) TUC Midlands rally on the eve of the Conservative party conference went well. 

(3) 19th October wear red to work day - part of show racism the red card campaign. An event was held at Tesco West Bromwich and was well received. 

(4) Respect for Shop workers campaign 12th - 18th November.


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

TUC MIDLANDS REGIONAL COUNCIL
The TUC Midlands Regional council meet twice a year and USDAW is entitled to send four delegates. 

After a brief discussion which asked for expressions of interest followed by a vote the following will be the USDAW TUC Midlands Regional Council Delegation. 

(1) Gavin Dadley
(2) Kate MacLeod
(3) Jon Mcewan
(4) Julie Haycraft

USDAW ORGANISING AWARDS 2018
The divisional council members had received a copy of all nominations a few weeks ago and we had been looking through them in our own way to decide on who we thought deserved to win the award for each category. 

We all gave our choices and these were counted up to reveal the winners of each award. 

Due to the winners needing to be notified in writing the winners will only be announced on this blog after next months meeting. 

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


The next USDAW Midlands Divisional Council Meeting will be on Wednesday 28st November 2018. 

The meeting was then closed  
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