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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 30th OCTOBER 2019

Wednesday 30th October 2019 I attended the Divisional Council meeting at the Usdaw Redditch office.

Apologies were received from:
Claire Thomas. 
Julie Haycraft. 
 

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
5th and 6th October. 
Covered a mock ADM. 
£110 raised in raffle. 

West Midlands
5th and 6th October. 
Covered mental health. 
Speaker from MIND on Sunday morning. 


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

Membership 407,045 nationally and 54,789 divisional.
 
Online joins 143 - Divisional 

Postal joins 3076 ytd. 

Stand down recruitment - 
2,560 new members recruited. 
180 reps done stand down so far. 
12,779 hours of stand down done so far. 

Academy 1 - 2019.

Members recruited 1,510

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


(1) The save our shops campaign took place but with very bad weather. 540 signatures on petition. 

(2) USDAW National retail trades conference. 
Great weekend with lots of speakers. 

(3) Midlands Divisional Conference 
23rd and 24th November. 

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

USDAW organising awards  2019

Outstanding achievement 
Mark Halfpenny 

Individual organising
Tammy Caven

H&S Rep
Amar Schuzak 

Individual recruitment 
Michelle Whitehead

Campaigns
Ann Lloyd 

Team recruitment 
Tayto Reps

Most promising new activist
Samantha Crawford

ULR
Peter Colclough

Equalities 
Julie Haycraft


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

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


The meeting was then closed  
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