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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, 1 July 2019

USDAW DIVISIONAL COUNCIL MEETING 24th APRIL 2019

Wednesday 24th April 2019 I attended the Divisional Council meeting at the Usdaw Redditch office.

Apologies were received from:
Eli Williams. 
Ian Bateman. 
Gareth Davies. 
 

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
The school covered the women chainmakers festival. 
The school was at a new venue in kegworth. 
The school also looked at the time for better pay campaign. 
A raffle raised £120 which is to go to McMillan in memory of Paul White. 

West Midlands
No report 


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

Membership 421,556 nationally and 56,221 divisional.
 
Stand down recruitment - 
1090 new members recruited. 
95 reps done stand down so far. 
4,725 hours of stand down done so far. 

Academy 1 - 2019.

There are 10 potential organising officers - pending release. 

Academy 2 - 2019.
 
The academy 2 programme has recently started. 
There are 4 organising officers. 
Members recruited - 228


(1) The Midlands Division will be in charge of stewarding the 2019. 


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

Pension Conference 2019
6 Nominees and 2 reserves required. 

Nominees - 
Simon Archer  
Gareth Coates 
Keith Crichton
Paula Rogers 
Rosen Salisbury 
James Young

Reserves -
Alan Ruston
Aaron Wall


Usdaw summer school series 1 2019
8 nominees required 

Nominees - 
Kevin Balding
Monica Barnett
Andrei Ciobanita
Mark Glass
Andrea Opera
Ian Roberts
Moises Rodrigues
Julie Smith




Usdaw summer school series 2  2019
6 nominee required. 

Nominee - 
Darren Atkinson 
Kelvin Blake
Jayne Brailsford
Mattthew Hamill 
Julie Hsycraft
Wendy Mills


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


The next USDAW Midlands Divisional Council Meeting will be on Wednesday 22nd May 2019. 


The meeting was then closed  
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