Special Constituency Labour Party meeting Thursday 3rd January 2019

Special Constituency Labour Party meeting

Thursday 3rd January 2019

A special all members meeting of the Peterborough Constituency Labour Party (CLP) was held on Thursday 3rdJanuary 2019, to discuss the next steps following the recentconviction of Fiona Onasayna, Peterborough’s Labour MP, for Perverting the Course of Justice.

Ian Lavery, Labour Party Chairman, told the meeting that Fiona Onansanya had been expelled from the party, and is no longer the Labour MP for Peterborough and that Labour Party officials were waiting on the outcome of her sentencing, due later this month, before taking the next steps.

He also told the 100 plus CLP members present that Labour would actively seek to trigger a byelection if Fiona received a sentence of less than 12 months having been found guilty of lying to police to avoid a speeding charge.

“Labour would “actively support” such a petition, which would need to be endorsed by 10% of the electorate in the constituency, over a six-week period to trigger a byelection.”

She would automatically lose her seat if she received a sentence of 12 months or more, even if some of it was suspended. But if she were to receive a shorter custodial sentence, a recall petition would automatically be triggered.

Andy Beeby said from the floor that as the TULO Officer for the CLP (Trade Union Liaison Officer) he was organising a meeting of the affiliated Trade Unions, in the coming week to discuss how they would move forward.

As ever as events unfold and progress I will keep you updated

Andy Beeby

Branch Secretary

CWU Eastern Number Five Branch

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TUPE of BT Facilities Services to CBRE and ISS

TUPE of BT Facilities Services to CBRE and ISS

It has been brought to our attention that just prior to the Christmas break the employer issued the following statement that appeared on BTFS Change Space and was visible to all our members:

“In order to introduce a new targeting operating model in accordance with their obligations to BT, ISS and CBRE envisage putting forward proposals for changes that may affect transferring BTFS colleagues. Both CBRE and ISS have committed to full consultation, post transfer on any changes proposed.”

We have since learned that some FS Managers have also emailed this out and it appears they are consulting with our members, many of whom are now quite rightly questioning the statement and are concerned about the implications.

The CWU condemn the actions taken by the employer as, without any detail or understanding of what this statement actually means this is provocative and inflammatory at this point of the consultation.

As a consequence we have been in touch with the company and reminded them that the CWU is the recognised trade union that has collective bargaining rights for the team member representative group and this management action is unacceptable.

It is the aim of the CWU to try and deal with any changes via negotiation and collective agreement.

To remind branches regarding the CWU objectives are as follows:

To campaign against the outsourcing of BT Facilities Services.

To oppose any compulsory redundancies and to agree improved voluntary terms for any job losses.

To protect the existing terms and conditions of employment including;

i) at the minimum maintaining the Real Living Wage for housekeepers and Security Officers.
ii) the protection of contractual hours.

Any queries to be addressed to Sally Bridge at sabridge@cwu.org

Yours Sincerely

Sally Bridge

National Officer

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ELECTION OF CWU DELEGATES TO THE TUC EQUALITY CONFERENCES 2019

ELECTION OF CWU DELEGATES TO THE TUC EQUALITY CONFERENCES 2019

Please find attached the regulations, nomination forms and candidate consent and biographical details forms for the above conferences. The details of which are as follows:

TUC WOMEN’S CONFERENCE
Date: 6^th– 8^th March 2019
Venue: Congress House, London

TUC BLACK WORKERS CONFERENCE
Date: 12^th – 14^th April 2019
Venue: Congress House, London

TUC DISABLED WORKERS CONFERENCE
Date: 21^st – 22^nd May 2019
Venue: BIC, Bournemouth

TUC LGBT WORKERS CONFERENCE
Date: 4^th – 5^th July 2019
Venue: Congress House, London

The Timetable for the elections is as follow:

Nominations open: 7 January 2019
Nominations close: 21 January 2019 (14:00)
Despatch ballot papers: 25 January 2019
Ballot closes: 8 February 2019 (14:00)

Reminders:

All candidates for election to the TUC Women’s Conference must be women.
All nominees require the nomination of their own Branch.

Any enquiries regarding this Letter to Branches should be addressed to the Senior Deputy General Secretary’s Department on telephone number 020 8971 7237, or email address sdgs@cwu.org.

Yours sincerely,

Tony Kearns
Senior Deputy General Secretary

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Candidates Consent & Biographical Details Form

Nomination Forms 2019

Regulations TUC Equality Conferences 2019

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Health, Safety & Environment Department LTB Digest for 2018

Health, Safety & Environment Department LTB Digest for 2018

To: All Branches

Dear Colleagues,

As in previous years the Health, Safety & Environment Department is circulating, for the particular attention of Safety Representatives, a digest list of LTBs issued by the Health, Safety & Environment Department during 2018.

I attach for your information a digest list of LTBs issued by the Health, Safety & Environment Department during 2018 which the department issues annually as a reference document.

Copies of all back-number LTBs are available for downloading via the CWU Website or on request directly from the Health, Safety & Environment Department.

Copies of minutes of the NEC Health, Safety & Environment Committee are also available on request.

Yours sincerely

Dave Joyce
National Health, Safety & Environment Officer

19LTB001 Health Safety and Environment Department LTB Digest 2018

Health Safety and Environment LTB Digest 2018

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