EC Meeting Papers March 2018

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Nursery.

In discharging their responsibilities as employers the directors have sought to avoid redundancies at all costs and been actively looking for alternative options. In discharging my fiduciary responsibility as General Secretary and Treasurer of the GFTU to ensure that we take the opportunity of the new build to maximise income from the Quorn site to the best of our ability, I have been actively seeking to establish whether a new build nursery or other use building is a viable option. A great deal of work has gone into trying to secure a viable income generating stream in addition to the hotel and houses.

10 Union Building Conference.

EC members in attendance were: Bros. Williams, McGowan, Cortes, Mooney, Lawrence, Sis: Woolley, Pratten, Lipscombe, Easton, Cumming, Pattinson.

The agenda is attached.

At the last EC it was hoped that there would be a good gender balance of speakers etc. I believe we achieved this bearing in mind also that two sisters due to make presentations dropped out at the last moment. The following women speakers made a contribution, Kate Fallon, Wendy Cumming, Grace Millar, Edda Nicolson, Nadine Rae, Sarah Woolley, Sonya Mackie, Catharyn Lawrence, Christine Smith, The staff team have made a positive evaluation. We have received minimal feedback from delegates despite two requests. The overall mood was very positive. We have received two excellent full reports from Sis Woolley and Easton written for their EC meetings. I believe we have created a unique and important space and style of organisation for the event which is worth preserving and developing. I look forward to hearing the views of EC members who attended.

A number of place were subsidised.

A number of last minute cancellations were received.

There were 77 attendees overall.

11 Win Win. The new services to affiliates were launched at the UBC and will be discussed further at the EC. I have asked the Operations Manager to visit each union to promote a better understanding of the advantage of these.

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