GFTU BGCM 2019 Minutes

short of it is that ultimately more than 40% of the workforce voted to remove

that sweetheart union. So currently, and I hope this ends soon, I am able to

speak on behalf of 100% of trade unions that have ever removed a sweetheart

union in that process, but if any of you are trying to do the same, please come

and talk to us, because we have done it and we would love to help you do it

too.

Strangely, as you can imagine, we then had to go through the same thing and

every other union having aborted suggestions of removing them, because it is

the 40% threshold that we must complete, we had to do it again to get

recognition, so we did it twice, so we have now got recognition in Boots, that is

7,000 pharmacists and in line with our original philosophy, having now

effectively knocked out the biggest kid on the playground – We are not really

up for aggression, I will say that to our members from Voice, we are not really

encouraging playground violence – other community pharmacist organisations

are starting to talk to us, because they clearly understand that they can either

voluntarily start to work with us or also become famous.

So that is what we do, that is who we are. John, I hope that is helpful. As I

say, we, as a union, are very, very excited to be part of the GFTU and looking

forward to the future together. Thank you. (Applause)

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Paul, and congratulations again to the union for its

campaign against Boots and we look forward to great things from you on the

GFTU. As I say, we will listen to our Gibraltar colleagues tomorrow when they

arrive. We move on now to the first two motions that we are going to hear.

Both are going to be moved by NAPO, so I call Motion 6 which is Let’s fix the

broken Probation Service. Maybe this is slightly out of date!

MOTION 6 – LET’S FIX THE BROKEN PROBATION SERVICE

SIS KATIE LOMAS (NAPO) moved the following motion:

This BCGM notes with concern the current operational state of the Probation

service following it’s part privatisation in 2015 and the introduction of 21

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