Day of Dissent part 2

Day of Dissent part 1

Unite AGM 21st June 2010

Room CCG.04 3pm

The chair welcomed members to the meeting and said how delighted he was that nearly everyone were wearing their T shirts

1)                  Apologies
Apologies were received from Andy Talbot, Peter Donovan and Tracy Boakes

2)                  New Members
As we had a few new members  members were asked to introduce themselves

3)                  Minutes and matters arising
Minutes of the previous meeting were unavailable

4)                  Reports from Chair
Nick Seeley gave a report on the extent of the Framework negotiations indicating that UCU although balloting on the framework agreement were in dispute over hourly pay, Field leaders and professorial staff. He indicated that our long running dispute over the holiday differential for staff would not be resolved until agreement had been reached. Tactics to use would be an equality claim
Nick also gave a report on the continuing success of Hera – currently we are down to 7 red circled posts with hopefully some of them being resolved in the forthcoming regarding round.

5)                  Reports from Secretary
Tony Britton gave a report on the current state of the National pay negotiations. Once again an extremely tight remit from the Employers gave them little room for manoeuvre and the offer had improved from an initial 0.3% unconsolidated to 0.4% consolidated . All the unions had rejected the offer. The two academic unions UCU and EIS had already gone into the dispute resolution procedure  even though the employers had not yet made their final offer. A further meeting was to be held but currently no date was set.
It was reported that the offer would be put to the members for consultation with a recommendation that it be rejected from the National committee.  The secretary argued that as a consultation ballot it was extremely important to get the maximum turn out. He reassured members that no industrial action could take place without a full ballot and in preparation for this we  would be e-mailing members requesting that they update their details as it was shown in the current BA dispute how the courts would overturn a ballot result under challenge from an employer.

6)                  Elections
The chair stood down for the next item  called for nominations and the following people were elected
 
Chair                Nick Seeley
Vice Chair            John Tucker
Secretary            Tony Britton
Health & Safety     Kevin Head
Stratford Rep #1           Kevin Clough
Stratford Rep #2           Julia Freeman
Docklands Rep #1        Sylvia Easy-Hemmings
Docklands Rep #2        John Callaghan


Ray Stoker was re-elected as Auditor and it was agreed that we would seek to increase our number of reps on SSIG and JSCNC to enable some training of reps

7)                  Any Other Business
It was reported from one of our members of security that they were unhappy with the messages they received from their line management regarding grievances that they had taken out.  They requested that we write to senior management to ensure that  they knew the problems our members were facing.  It was agreed that following the cancellation of the JSCNC we would write a letter outlining our concerns.
It was also agreed to write thanking the catering service for the buffet.

8)                  Date of next meeting
It was agreed to hold a meeting next year but the request was made that it was earlier in the academic year .