1/ Attendance – 26
2/ Apologies – Hubert Libiszewski, Jess Hurd, Jason Parkinson, Terry Scott, Sean Day, Tracy Howl & Heather Blockey
3/ Reports - Review of 2014 Branch reports in the AGM agenda pack
4/ Branch Standing Orders -
To be added to the branch Standing Orders:
“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.”
VOTE: Agreed
Indicative vote (IV [temporary & student members]): Agreed
5/ Motion -
Our Working Lives videos are hosted on the branch Vimeo site and embedded from there onto our branch website. The free account does not allow files greater than 500MB to be uploaded. Therefore, in order to post Working lives videos, the branch agrees to upgrade its Vimeo account to Vimeo Plus, which costs around £40 per year.
VOTE: Agreed
IV: Agreed
6/ 2015 Branch elections - The following were elected unopposed by full members.
IV indicated that they were also in favour.
Chair - John Rogers
Vice chair - Nina Tailor
Secretary - Hubert Libiszewski
Secretary’s helper - Franc David
Equality officer - Heather Blockey
Treasurer - Larry Herman
Welfare officer - Matt Aslett
Union learning representative - unfilled
Membership & recruitment officer - Larry Herman
Working Lives project co-ordinator - Larry Herman
And onto committee without portfolio:
Guy Smallman
Michael Preston
Tracy Howl
7/ A.O.B. -
a. T shirts available
b. Cuba report of international Commission of Inquiry into the Case of the Cuban
Five available
8/ Break (before convening the January Branch meeting)
During the “nibbles” break, a photograph by Jane Hobson was
auctioned, with permission, and the money will be deposited in Branch
account and used at our 2015 Branch Christmas party
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