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 Branch Elections have been postponed because of Covid-19 following consultation with the Region.
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 Jackie Grover GMB Northants President The elections for the GMB Central Executive Committee have just taken place for 2019. GMB Northants Branch President Jackie Grover was nominated by the branch for the Commercial Services Seat, for the Midland and East Coast Region.
 Following the election of the GMB General Secretary and Treasurer for 2019, Tim Roache has been elected for a 2nd term by union members, following his initial election in 2015.
 Further to a decision of the CEC Appeals Committee held on 30 September 2019, a ballot for the election of GMB Union General Secretary & Treasurer will now be held.
The two candidates will be Timothy John Roache, and Kathleen Walker-Shaw. Members are invited to a hustings in accordance with by-law 21 of the Election of General Secretary & Treasurer 2019. This will take place, as detailed below: Do you think you could be the new Youth Officer for the GMB Northants Community Branch?Each GMB Branch elects its own officers: the Secretary, President, Auditor, Branch Youth Officer and Branch Equality Officer. All branch officers are elected every four years and are lay volunteers. These individuals are not employed by GMB but work on behalf of GMB to provide advice and support to those members belonging to their branch.
GMB Northants Branch officials election is at the June 2016 Branch Meeting on the 29th June 2016, nominations are being accepted at the March, April and May branch meetings. At the March meeting all positions received 1 nomination, except the Youth Officer position. Therefore nominations are sought for the Youth Officer position and open for all branch positions, with the election in June. To be nominated or vote you must be in attendance at the branch meeting Any questions can be directed to the current Branch Secretary at gordonglassford@gmbnorthants.org The next meeting of the GMB Northants Community Branch will be held on Wednesday, 30th March at 7.00pm in the Ex-Servicemen’s Club, Lloyds Road, Corby, NN17 1AP Download the Agenda here and the Summary Minutes from February meeting here.
GMB Northants Community Branch Secretary: Gordon Glassford, Corby, Northants, NN17 2LL Phone: 07792208229 Email: gordonglassford@gmbnorthants.org www.gmbnorthants.org Summary of the branch meeting held on 24.02.16 The minutes of the last meeting were agreed to be a true record. It was agreed to make a donation to the Jam Detached Youth Work Initiative in Corby The secretary has started the arrangement for this year’s Workers Memorial Day event. Letters have gone to various unions for support. Tom Beattie will speak, a request has gone to Labour Behind the Label to provide a speaker. Youth Brass 2000 have been asked if they could do a turn. A cheque had been presented to the Corby Food Bank at a cake sale to raise funds. Debbie said that £600 had been raised which is excellent and she passed on their thanks to the branch.. It was agreed that the branch should support the other food banks in the county. It was agreed that we donate £50 per quarter to each food bank by standing order. There are eight food banks. Branch finances remain healthy Traffic on the website is improving. Management at Kier in Corby seem to be sure that they will get a year’s extension on the current contract. There are lots of grievances and a couple of disciplinary being processed at the moment. Rachelle said that she is spending a lot of her time on site. The meeting closed at 7.50pm. Download the summary minutes to save and/or print below - 
 In the coming weeks and months there will be a debate about the future of the Labour Party and who leads it – a decision like that is too important to leave to politicians, the newspapers and think tanks.
I along with most trade unionists feel very disappointed with the election result, especially in Corby and East Northants where the electorate in their ‘wisdom’ have elected a right wing Tory and not Andy Sawford, the labour candidate and former MP who has represented the constituency since the bye election in 2012. Andy had been an excellent MP and had worked hard for all his constituents. There must be many who didn’t vote or voted UKIP who will be regretting their actions now. With the exception of Corby Borough Council Northamptonshire is now a sea of blue. Dedicated to the better off few with no consideration to the needs of the many.
Overall we now face five years of attacks on the poor, benefit cuts, slashes in local government funding, more food banks and the further privatisation of the NHS and education. At the same time right wing Tory MPs, with the aid of the press, will be working towards our exit from Europe. All this will fall into the hands of the SNP like manna from heaven. They will be able to claim, quite rightly, that Westminster no longer represents the interests of the people of Scotland and the breakup of the UK will be very real possibility. On top of this of course will be the effect on our members who face ever worsening conditions at work. We can expect the continuing use of agencies and more and more people working on zero hours contracts while being barely able to rent a home never mind buy a house. All the while the rich can look forward to more tax cuts while they continue to live off the fat of the land. We at the GMB will continue to represent the interests of our members but it’s going to be a long, hard five years. Gordon Glassford Branch Secretary GMB Northants Community Branch Northants |
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