EC Meeting Papers March 2018

General Secretary’s Report.

March 2018.

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Work for affiliates.

PCS The first part of the education review has been completed and a written report presented. The PCS will be well represented on our new training the trainers courses as they are involving more staff in training of members. This work generated £10k of income to the GFTU.

TSSA

New SLAs for Education and Finance have been signed and there is a considerable growth in education work likely as the TSSA is making recruitment training compulsory for all of its representatives.

Social Workers Union.

Support for the Boot Out Austerity and new campaigning pack has continued and support was given to enable SWU to involve new younger members in the Union Building Conference.

Initial discussions have been held with SWU concerning support for some specialist admin work.

POA.

A comprehensive new training programme has been agreed and I will be coordinating this.

Nautilus International.

I have met with the National Officer and Education Officer to consider options for reps training and online learning in the future. Some productive suggestions have been made.

GGCA.

I am pleased to report that the GFTU has been awarded the tender to undertake a comprehensive organisational review of the GGCA for presentation to their October 2018 Biennial General Meeting. This tender is worth £10k.

Artists’ Union of England.

The Education Officer will be attending the AUE Executive in March.

NAOSS

I am pleased to report that I will be meeting the General Secretary of NAOSS at Quorn shortly.

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Non affiliates.

CWU

I am pleased to report that I have been invited to attend the CWU conference in April.

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