GFTU BGCM Minutes 2017

gatekeepers across the public sector but some unions, such as Napo have

seen a significant reduction of membership in managerial roles and could learn

from unions who have retained strong managerial membership levels.

This BCGM calls upon the GFTU to:

A

Identify examples of best practice and such opportunities for such

sharing

B

use the training co-ordinators network to support this activity

C

identify champions, who can be supported to lead on progressing

identified themes

D

use the GFTU’S network to access academics, specialists and experts

in other fields to support developing the highest quality of training and practice

in these critical skills.

He said: Chair, brothers and sisters, I am delighted to have this opportunity to

move Motion 3 and the great contributions made today by a number of people

have made that task a good deal easier.

Earlier on Wendy Cheung said that her core ethos about success is that a

workforce ought to have discipline, hard work and desire. I do not think there

are any public servants and members who represent anywhere, indeed, who

do not have those attributes when they go about their daily work. There is

something missing though and it has been identified quite readily today, hasn’t

it? The fourth one is confidence, self-confidence to actually take stock of

where they are, why they are there and what power they have in their own gift

to try and change their position and that is what is behind the GFTU’s training

and education programme and, Doug and your team, I want to express the

views of our members and their huge appreciation for the development of that

training programme. It is exciting and innovative and we will do all we can to

promote it.

The motion before you talks about stronger networking to foster links in the

area of education through those people that cross the learning door, the

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