EC Meeting Papers January 2019

I was invited to attend the SME4Labour event. This is a very big annual event and some useful contacts were made. It was good to see onoe of our affiliates, Community advertising in the programme.

Community

I held a very constructive meeting with the General Secretary and Education Officer of Community.

Plans are renewed to support POA’s request to provide pay negotiating training for some groups of members. Requests from PCS and Community for special training the trainers programmes have been progressed.

Meeting CWU

I held a very productive meeting with the General Secretary of the CWU about the plans for a new deal for workers campaign and the possibility of affiliating the youth section of the union.

Meeting John McDonnell.

I held a very constructive meeting with John McDonnell to update him on our work and press a number of our campaign issues.

Youth Service.

A great deal of work went into producing the Chooseyouth submission to the Labour Party Consultation. I have pressed the need for a statutory youth service widely and sent the officials looking at this matter all of the relevant funding formulae information. John McDonnell indicated his support for putting this into the Labour Party Manifesto.

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