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Motion 3 continued

3 Similarly the GFTU should promote identifying common recruitment and

organising challenges and support active learning around best practice

and overcoming these challenges. For example, managers are critical union

gatekeepers across the public sector but some unions, such as Napo have

seen a significant reduction of membership in managerial roles and could

learn from unions who have retained strong managerial membership levels.

This BCGM calls upon the GFTU to:

A dentify examples of best practice and such opportunities for such sharing

B use the training co-ordinators network to support this activity

C identify champions, who can be supported to lead on progressing identified

themes

D use the GFTU’S network to access academics, specialists and experts in other

fields to support developing the highest quality of training and practice in

these critical skills.

Promoting efficiencies & greater inter-union

co-operation

1 The GFTU provides a safe space for union leaders to come together, share

challenges, and celebrate successes. However, all GFTU affiliates will be

aiming to stretch resources so they have the maximum impact for members

and this BCGM believes that the GFTU is not fulfilling it’s potential as a broker

for finding shared solutions to common resourcing challenges amongst

affiliates.

2 By definition affiliates are small so capacity to find solutions to internal

operational challenges is difficult - in terms of time, expertise and cost. For

example, Napo would like to have cutting edge integrated ICT platforms that

could make our membership, finance and communications more efficient

and effective with a direct benefit for supporting activists, campaigning and

organising. This is difficult as we have limited time and expertise to devote to

this and options can be disproportionately expensive.

3 This BCGM believes that through the safe space provided by the GFTU,

common challenges can be identified and common solutions explored,

extending to shared commissioning and economies of scale in areas such

as ICT, insurance and internal financial support, internal legal services, and

aspects of HR support.

4 This principle can extend to shared commissioning of research into common

bargaining challenges, with the GFTU brokering this via their network of

academics.

5 Indeed, this BCGM believes the GFTU is uniquely placed to promote, co-

ordinate and broker such sharing across affiliates.

Therefore, this BCGM calls upon the GFTU to:

A include opportunities to specifically promote this sharing in the GFTU annual

events programme.

B create a working party of union sharing champions

Domestic violence victims in the Family

Court System

1 This BGCM welcomes the announcement of an emergency review of the

Family Court system on the need to afford greater protection to the victims

of Domestic Violence and the prevention of the situation where perpetrators

may cross examine their victims at hearings. This practice serves only to re-

victimise and passers the power to perpetrators in a system which is there to

protect victims. This anomaly is already prohibited in the Criminal Courts.

Motion 4

NAPO

Motion 5

NAPO