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, 25 February 2019

USDAW DIVISIONAL COUNCIL MEETING JANUARY 2019

Wednesday 30th January 2019 I was unable to attend the Divisional Council meeting at the Usdaw Redditch office so this post replicates the minutes received for the January meeting. 

Apologies were received from:
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 read through the EC minutes but these will be discussed at the next meeting. 

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
The Divisional officers report was read and the relevant points were endorsed and noted. 


TUC BLACK WORKERS CONFERENCE 2019.
The delegate to this conference and reserves are as follows

Delegate - Nirwal Rana
Reserve - Sajida Sayani


Any Other Business
The Midlands division was successful in securing two national awards at the USDAW ORGANISING AWARDS 2018 ceremony. 

Most promising new activist - Mark Jeffery

Individual Organising - Nikki Fitzsimmons 

Congratulations to both of our winners. 

The Divisional Council was informer that former DC Chairman and DC member Paul White had passed away. 
Funeral details were shared with the Divisional Council. 


The next USDAW Midlands Divisional Council Meeting will be on Wednesday 27th February 2019. 


The meeting was then closed  
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