GFTU BGCM 2019 Minutes

Motion 15 – Mental Health for Education

165

Motion 3 – Climate Change

168

Motion 5 - GFTU Rule Change

172

Motion 9 – Rehabilitation needed in our communities

177

GFTU activities report

180

Motion 8 – Initiatives against domestic violence

186

Motion 13 – Menopause

189

Update on British Steel – Roy Rickhuss

192

A New Deal for Workers – Dave Ward, General Secretary CWU 196

Motion 12 – Public transport

218

Motion 10 – Expanding access to education

221

Dr Michael Sanders, GFTU Educational Trust

224

Incoming President’s address

226

Vote of thanks

238

SUNDAY 19 th MAY 2019

The Meeting assembled at 2.00 pm

WELCOMES

THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. A very warm welcome to this

Biennial General Council Meeting of the General Federation of Trade Unions.

My name is John Smith, I am President for this conference and it has been a

great pleasure to have been your President for the last couple of years, and we

will delve into that a bit more deeply as we go through during the conference.

There are a couple of things I need to say. First of all, just to talk generally

about our unions and what they do and the support that the GFTU can give to

them. I hope you are going to get some copious reports about what people

have been doing through the motions, through the debates, but I am just going

to highlight two to begin with. A great victory from our colleagues at NAPO. I

know there is lots to do, but the Probation Service has been all over the place.

Thank goodness it is going to be renationalised. (Applause) It is another tick

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