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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 NOVEMBER 2018

Wednesday 28th November 2018 I attended the Divisional Council meeting at the Usdaw Redditch office.

Apologies were received from:
Gareth Davies. 
Susan 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
Nothing to report. 

West Midlands
Nothing to report 

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

Membership 437,739 nationally and 57,732 divisional.
 
Stand down recruitment - 2,692 new members recruited. 
194 reps done stand down so far. 
12,549 hours of stand down done so far out of a target of 12,000. 


(1) Divisional Conference March 23rd / 24th will take place at the Raddison hotel East Midlands Airport. . . 

(2) November divisional conference collection raised £263.35. 

(3) USDAW Organising Awards takes place in 19th January 2019.

(4) Membership week 23rd - 27th January. 

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


TUC YOUNG WORKERS CONFERENCE 
The delegate and reserves are 

Delegate - Sylwia Antoniak 
Reserve 1 - James Tilsley
Reserve 2 - Robert Moore


USDAW ROAD TRANSPORT COMMITTEE
The Midlands representative is 

Charmaine Finch. 


DIVISIONAL POLITICAL COMMITTEE
The following people make up the Divisional Political Committee. 

Gavin Dadley
Kate Macleod 
Eli Williams 
Ann Lloyd 
Mark Pengelly
Mohamed Yasin
Kevin Lowe
Paul Lilly 


USDAW ORGANISING AWARDS 2018
The nominees going forward for the awards is as follows. 

Outstanding achievement - Nirwal Rana
Individual organising - Nikki Fitzsimmons
Health & Safety rep - Jackie Stevens
Individual recruitment - Sara Farrar
Campaigns - Dawn Johnson
Team recruitment & Organising - XPO Logistics
Most promising new activist - Mark Jeffery
U.L.R - Janusz Sitkowski
Equalities - Rob Parry 


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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