GFTU BGCM Minutes 2017

union movement that is a highly valued skill. I would like to second the votes of

thanks to the President and thank him personally for his work, his humour, his

fraternal friendship throughout our time at the EC. Thank you. (Applause)

THE GENERAL SECRETARY: We have just got a little gift we would like to give Ben

for all his hard work. That is with the appreciation of the Executive and all the

unions. Thank you. (Applause)

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much indeed. The reason you will not find

anything about me on the web is because I understand the web quite well!

(Laughter) Just bear in mind, especially if you have got children, everything

you do on the web is indelible, it is like getting a tattoo, only even harder to

remove. Anyway, thank you, that was very generous and there is more than

enough of that, so let us move on with the agenda.

The next item on the agenda are affiliates reports. This is an opportunity that

we give to some of our affiliates, but also to all of you to know about some of

the often inordinately interesting work that many of the quite often quite

specialist little known but really very significantly important organisations that

affiliate to the GFTU actually do in their day jobs and I think we have a number

of people who are going to speak in this section, starting with CCISUA who will

explain who they are, but when I tell you that the United Nations is quite a well-

known organisation and that they represent the people who work for it, that

gives you an interesting insight into just how wide the GFTU can reach. So a

warm welcome to the BGCM to Asha Roop Kaur Dhillon of CCISUA.

AFFILIATE REPORT – CCISUA

SIS ASHA DHILLON (CCISUA): Thank you. I have to say it is a great privilege to be

here, to be representing CCISUA. I am really honoured that I have been

selected by CCISUA to be representing them at this gathering.

As I was listening to the speeches I was just thinking maybe I should say how it

came about becoming a representative of CCISUA. I was working in a small

little country called Malaysia in the UNHCR office and I worked as a protection

officer working on issues and the reason why I got interested in labour unions,

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