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, 1 March 2020

USDAW DIVISIONAL COUNCIL MEETING 27th NOVEMBER 2019

Wednesday 27th November 2019 I attended the Divisional Council meeting at the Usdaw Redditch office.

Apologies were received from:
Andrea Watts.
Eli Williams. 
Ian Bateman. 
Michelle Whitehead. 
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. 
We spoke about 

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 Gavin Dadley. 

Membership 410,490 nationally and 55,009 divisional.
 
Online joins 141 - division. 

Postal joins 3423 ytd. 

Stand down recruitment - 
2729 new members recruited. 
180 reps done stand down so far. 
13,882 hours of stand down done so far. 

Academy 1 - 2019.

The academy 1 programme has now finished. 

Academy 2 - 2019.
 
The academy 2 programme has now finished. 


(1) The Midlands Divisional conference went well with a collection. Several people went out to campaign for jack Dromey during the general election. 

(2) Membership week jan 20th to 26th. 

(3) 18th January 2020 the USDAW organising awards will take place. Good luck to all the midlands nominees. . 

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

TUC Young Workers Conference 2020
11 Nominees  required. 

Nominee - 
K.Blair

Reserve
S.Crawford

TUC Black workers conference 2020
1 nominee required 

Nominee - 
Manpreet Sanghera 

Reserve
Paul Woodbine



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



The next USDAW Midlands Divisional Council Meeting will be on Wednesday 22nd January  2020. 


The meeting was then closed  
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