Pleased to report that we now have Raph Pigott as a delegate from
GMB and 2 new delegates from the Unite T & G branch at Delphi
- Sudbury.
For the April Meeting we had a speaker - David Rce from Amesty
International - Braintree branch - who spoke on the work of Amesty
International and its importance to the Trade Union movement. It was
an interesting talk and we had a discussion on Amnesty at the end
of the talk.
Campaigning - Anti Fascist
& Anti Racist Campaigning - this is ongoing.
Visteon - Basildon. This was discussed by the meeting.
ECC Anti - Outsourcing campaign. Bob Lambert & Chris Burrow
had supported this capmaign by getting signatures for the petition.
Other campaigns - Royal Mail Privatisation & Colchester South
Secondary Schools were discussed
Secretary's Report
The Secretary commented his activity over the past month.
Correspondence was gone through
090/09 Co-op Bank - statement 243
091/09 Their Crisis, Not Ours - Campaign
092/09 Unite 1/248 Donation
093/09 Unite Colchester Central - Minutes 09.02.09
094/09 Unite Joint Left - Minutes 12.01.09 & 10.02.09
095/09 Solidarity Magazine - Spring 2009
096/09 Amnesty International - Magazine -Spring 2009
097/09 SERTUC - Statutory Redundancy Bill - Support 13.03.09
098/09 SERTUC - Conference Employment Act 2009 29.04.09 £50
London
099/09 SERTUC - Conference- Employment Act -12.05.09 £50 Liverpool
100/09 SERTUC - March for Jobs - 28.03.09
101/09 SERTUC - Workers Memorial Day 28.04.09 GMHC Fact sheet
102/09 SERTUC - Book “ Strike a Light” The story of the
match girls.
103/09 SERTUC - Learning at Work Day - Fund
104/09 SERTUC - SERTUC/ACAS Conference - Ipswich 23.03.09
105/09 SERTUC- Morning Star - Conference “ Surviving Capitalism’s
Crisis - 20.06.09 London.
106/09 Venezuela Information Centre - Event 04.04.09 10 years of Democracy
& Progress.
107/09 Amnesty International - Ballot
108/09 GMB - Affiliation Southend-on-Sea Branch
109/09 S. Piggott - Receipt for cheque 100089
110/09 Hazards Conference 2009 - Application forms
111/09 Alan Burley - Financial Adviser
112/09 Unite - Affiliation LE/979 Delphi
113/09 TU Studies - Colchester Institute- Summer 2009 courses
114/09 Thurrock & Basildon College - Courses Summer 2009
115/09 Labour Briefing - April issue
116/09 SWTUC - Tolpuddle
117/09 Co-op Bank - Statement 244
118/09 Co-op Bank - Sub Committee A/c - Statement 86
119/09 Working Class Movement Library - “ Shelf life” magazine
120/09 Essex Association of TUCs - SERTUC event for Worker’s
Memorial Day 28.04.09
121/09 Stop the War - Conference - Reminder for affiliation
122/09 TUC - TUCJCC Ballot 2009
The Secretary advised the meeting that he was again seeking election
to the board of the East of England Co-op
Finance Report
The Secretary reported that 11 branches had renewed their affiliatrions
this year
The finance report was presented to delegates.
The following payments were agreed.
Affiliation to Stop The War Campaign
Subscription to Labour Briefing
Donation to Visteon workers at Basildon
Delegates Reports
Amongst items mentioned
Report of the TUC womens conference in scarborough
Recruitment in Jobcentreplus.
Workers Memorial Day.
G20 Demonstration London
Job losses in Witham
The Environment - a Trade Union issue.
Raph Pigott has agreed to become Assistant Secretary.This was agreed
by the meeting
The next Meeting will be Thursday May 14th 2009 at 8pm at the Odd
One Out.
Bob Lambert advised he had speakers from the Socialist Party attending
the meeting.
The Secretary advised he would be away on the day of the meeting and
would prepare for the meeting accordingly.
The meeting closed at 10.09pm
