EC Meeting Papers January 2019

EC Minutes November 2018

Bro. Cortes reported that just yesterday Scottish Rail were threatened with industrial action including strike action if the company’s bosses fail to withdraw plans to outsource vital station maintenance and repair work.

VOICE. Sis. Lawson reported on the continued fight for bridging the teacher pay funding gap. A new STRB letter had been issued, the Secretary of the State would be issuing a new letter after Christmas. Sis. Lawson also reported that member’s numbers had increased.

AEGIS. Bro. Linn reported on the continued diversity and inclusion campaign.

Bro. Linn was happy to report that he had been accepted on the TUC General Council and also the LGBT committee. Despite being unable to attend the last two meetings he was very much looking forward to being involved. Bro. Linn reported that he was also on the England Union Learn board too. Bro. Linn discussed negotiations with Aegon and a really successful campaign by the union to secure 500 jobs. AUE. Sis Easton introduced their new General Secretary Sheree Matthews and gave an insight to how this would change her role and enable her to travel around more and engage more. There were now 9 executives based in London and membership nu,bers had increased. Sis. Easton stated that the London are were getting more organised amongst immigrant and cultural workers. Sis. Easton reported on the positive response to the new General Secretary and communications and newsletters had been vastly improved. The new General Secretary had met Francis O’Grady in November and a volunteer partnership with sixth formers in Durham had been established and was working well. POA. Sis. Miller reported that despite the recent protest by their General Secretary Joe Simpson the agreement had not materialised. Sis. Miller reported that the recruitment drive target had been reached and was due to end March 2019. Sis. Miller reported that membership numbers had increased. Sis. Miller had proposed a motion for young members EC however the motion was not successful. Sis. Miller was pleased to report that since this a young members EC had been created and the first meeting would be held in January and Sis. Miller would report back on this during the next EC meeting 23 rd January 2019. Sis. Miller reported that violence within the prisons had not improved and discussed the implementation of the new structures and the reform of how prison officers are managed which was creating divisions between staff. NAPO. Bro. Lawrence reported on the Departure of Michael Spur and the continued crisis within the prison service and the concerns of who may be brought in next as there would be two new Director Generals. Bro. Lawrence hoped that these may bring some positive solutions.

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