GFTU BGCM 2019 Minutes

you. (Applause) Akif Wan will also be coming from the Kurdish National

Council, which is great. There are a lot of commercial partners that we will

introduce as we go through, but let me just say a particular welcome to Jill

Westerman, former principal of Northern College, if Jill is here. Hi, Jill. She is

a trustee of the Educational Trust. Of course, former President and Hotel

Director, Quorn Grange Director, John Fray who is sitting at the back

somewhere. Hello, John. You are always very welcome and it is nice to see

you and Carol here. I will be doing more introductions as we go through.

APOLOGIES

THE PRESIDENT: Steve Gillan, I am told, from the POA is coming tomorrow, so it

will be nice to see him then.

ADOPTION OF STANDING ORDERS

THE PRESIDENT: If I can refer you to the booklet, it is the green tab and page 6 is

standing orders. I just move from the chair that these be adopted. Is that

okay? (Agreed) Thank you. Have a look at no. 4 and be warned. We will see

what disorder comes during the course of the conference!

ELECTION OF 2 TELLERS

THE PRESIDENT: Now then, the election of tellers. We have got two willing

volunteers who were press ganged at the Executive Committee meeting who

will act as tellers if there needs to be a vote. Each delegation should have a

voting card with the number of votes which you will be asked to wave if we get

to a vote and the tellers will count those votes on there. Claire Jones from the

Society of Union Employees and Keeley Lipscombe from TSSA will be our

tellers. Thank you very much for volunteering to do that. I think at this stage I

will hand over to Osh.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. In a moment I am going to

hand over to our President, John Smith, for the President’s address. I have

taken great delight in acting as Vice President under John. I will say more of

that later. When John assumed the presidency two years ago he did say that

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