GFTU BGCM 2019 Minutes

saw they gave us a couple of prizes in the auction yesterday. They have got

an online portal, so if you have got reps who need to get to good reliable legal

information outside of the core office time, they will make that available to

affiliates.

Other things in that portfolio, we know about Lighthouse and the financial

advice services. They have helped us with our investments, but they also will

deal with affiliates and with members to make sure that they are getting the sort

of information they need to make a better informed choice. A lot of this

information is actually in the pack. I am not sure whether they are in the room

at the moment, but we have got the Phone Co Op. It is part of the co-operative

movement. They are based in Manchester. They provide us with phone

infrastructure and telephony. The good thing is the more we get people to use

the Phone Co Op as their telecoms provider, the contribution gets bigger

coming back into the GFTU, so again we can do more work then on the

education programme, because we will be in a stronger position financially.

Wally and Aaron are here, just not in the room currently, but it is a proper

cooperative. We recently swapped out a couple of copiers and as part of that

process I spoke to CSL. It turns out they are a Konica and Minolta agent and

can provide Konica and Minolta photocopiers to any of you and they can

service it through the national network. Again, they are making a contribution

back to the organisation.

I think all of these are exciting. There is a lot going for using partners who we

have checked out, we know that the products are good, robust, affordable.

Some people are using some of these companies for campaigning. The

Bakers, for example, use Senate Media on their website. Dan will be here from

Senate in a while. They do very short, easy to interpret video clips and things

and are happy to do the same for any of us, so if you want to put some

animation into your website they can do that easily for you. I have not talked

about Mick yet, because he can do it quite eloquently himself. Mick is at the

back, TC Branding. They provide the GFTU with all of our branded

merchandise, but, again, when you talk to him on his stand out there you will

realise that the range of opportunity is a very broad one. It is good that things

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