1/   Attendance:  John Rogers, Hubert Libiszewski, Nina Tailor, Michael Preston,

Larry Herman;  Tom Tailor (seated & agreed)

2/   Apologies: Franc David (personal), Guy Smallman (work), Tracy Howl (personal),

Matthew Aslett (personal), Heather Blockey (work)

3/   Absent:  None

4/    Minutes (from 02 Dec. comm. mtg.): Agreed

5/    Matters arising (from 02 Dec. comm. mtg. minutes):

a.  cancelled December Branch (30 / 12) meeting

b.  paper plants for Diedre / bottles of beer for Paul

c.  Working Lives Project Pierre Alozie has agreed to be filmed after P. Marshall; Hubert to contact them

6/    Meeting with the Met

Agreed that:

a/  Met not to set terms for meeting

b/  must be on LPB / NUJ terms

c/  not to include BPPA

d/  John (chair) / Nina (committee member) to represent LPB

e/  perhaps Andrew W. (chair of Photography Council)

f/  Hubert to draft letter in response to John Toner’s

g/  not to meet with Met unless our conditions for meeting agreed by them

h/  to set up a meeting with John Toner and LPB frontline members to discuss what’s been happening this year

i/  to establish a working group at this meeting

j/  every Met member to be shown our video

 

7/    Planning the January 27th Branch meeting and AGM

Branch meeting -  According to Branch Standing Orders, Branch meeting should be first  then move directly into the AGM without a break. John to chair both and step aside for the election of chair during AGM.

AGM -

a/  Larry to put to AGM changes to Branch Standing Orders (SO)

b/  the few proposed changes are only ” tidying up” the SO’s

c/  except: (new clause 18 – “In all voting in the Branch and for whatever reason, the chair should ask for an indicative vote from those who are not eligible to vote”)

d/  election of:

chair

vice-chair

secretary to keep the records and convene meetings.

equality officer (promotes equality issues and provide a focus for questions and complaints arising from the code of conduct)

treasurer (responsible for the funds in the care of the branch and for keeping accounts).  No treasurer shall be aged of 18.

welfare officer (cares for the interests of sick members and their spouses and liaise with the NUJ Extra.

Union learning representative

membership and recruitment/retention officer

Working Lives Project Co – ordinator

8/  A.O.B. –   a.  Not to have the film: “Still the Enemy Within” as a future Branch discussion, but to promote the video – agreed

END

 

 

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