GFTU BGCM Minutes 2017

designed to help us recover from the problems that you heard about yesterday

following the privatisation of probation. It is a medium to long term strategy we

are embarking on, but we need now as a union to take a long, hard look at

what we can do alongside our sister unions to promote greater inter-union

cooperation, as the motion says. We want to free up the skills of our current

team at NAPO. We do not want to cut jobs, but we want to see what skills we

can bring out and how we can help those staff to develop so they are in a

better place to improve our face to face services with our members.

Colleagues, I do not think I need to say more in commending the motion. I

hope it will result in a renewed push from all of you to take back the ethos of

this motion and the direction of travel that it maps out and make a real

concerted effort to work with the GFTU going forward in this area. Thank you

very much.

The motion was formally seconded

Motion 4 was CARRIED unanimously

THE PRESIDENT: I am going to crave your indulgence, if I may, and tinker with the

agenda a little bit. I am going to suggest that we invite Glyn Travers from the

Prison Officers Association to speak to us. The POA has very recently

affiliated to the GFTU and is already beginning to play a really quite active part

in the organisation, so I think it would be very valuable for this meeting to hear

from the POA. I am then going to suggest that we move to Motion 2 on the

‘gig’ economy from Community, if that is all right with Community, and then

after that I am going to suggest that we have a break for a cup of coffee. Does

that meet with general approval? (Agreed)

AFFILIATES REPORT - POA

BRO GLYN TRAVERS (POA): Good morning, colleagues, friends, comrades. Glyn

Travers of the POA, recently affiliated to this wonderful organisation and I say

that having experienced our first training event this year at Quorn. I have been

a fulltime officer with the POA for almost 20 years. I have got many strands in

my portfolio, one is drinking, by the way, and I practised that last night. The

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