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Network Journal 2007 Issue 3 May/June |
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Campaigns – Freedom From Fear
Campaigns – Parents and Carers
Companies
Conferences
Editorial
Equality
Health and Safety
Letters
Lifelong Learning
News In Brief
Organising Academy
Pensions
People and Events
Politics
Recruitment and Organising
Work and Life
Young Workers
Campaigns – Freedom From Fear
Show your Respect on July 11
Usdaw reps and activists are being urged to get right behind this year’s Respect Day which aims to raise awareness of the violence and abuse shopworkers face on a daily basis.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Campaigns – Parents and Carers
Companies
Conferences
ADM 2007: Building the union
Usdaw’s organising agenda has been a real success this year with more than 20,000 new members recruited since January, deputy general secretary Paddy Lillis told conference when he opened the organising debate, which attracted a wide range of propositions from branches.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
ADM 2007: Disability debate
Delegates speak up.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
ADM 2007: Education education education
The biggest debate at ADM centred on the lifelong learning campaign, its achievements and how it is changing members lives for the better.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
ADM 2007: Health matters to members
Delegates heard impassioned speeches on Alzheimer’s disease, childhood cancer, privatisation and medical treatment during the NHS debate.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
ADM 2007: News in brief
The news from ADM.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
ADM 2007: Premier performance from Gordon Brown
Chancellor Gordon Brown showed why he was everyone’s choice to be the next prime minister with a typically robust speech on Labour’s achievements and aims.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
ADM 2007: Safety first
Working temperatures, scanning rates, drinking water, and fire escapes all featured heavily in the health and safety debate.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
ADM 2007: Standing up for young workers
All unions face a big challenge in recruiting young workers to their ranks, Paddy Lillis told conference when he moved the executive council statement.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
ADM 2007: The union’s parliament in action
More than 1,300 delegates, visitors and officials, the future prime minister and a number of supportive MPs made Usdaw’s 61st Annual Delegate Meeting (ADM) one of the best in recent years.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
ADM 2007: Transport safety on the agenda
People who use mobile phones while driving should face much stiffer penalties, that was the verdict from conference during the transport debate.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
ADM 2007: Underage sales in focus
Fines for retail workers who inadvertently sell alcohol to underage customers came under fire from a number of delegates.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Editorial
Equality
Health and Safety
Asthma on the rise
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health have warned that occupational asthma is the fastest growing disease in the UK with between 1,500–3,000 new cases a year. That figure rises to over 7,000 if current sufferers made worse by work are included.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Dermatitis danger
The HSE has issued a circular to inspectors to raise awareness of the growing problem of contact dermatitis in the catering sector.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Food & drink sector
The annual conference for the HSE, employers and unions in the food and drink industries will be held at Campden & Chorleywood Food Research Association (CCFRA) on 10 and 11 October.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Health and safety news in brief
The news in brief.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Priority for workplace visits
A government review of Local Authority (LA) regulatory activities wants enforcement of workplace health to be one of the top five priorities.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Safety rep’s vital role
Full-time convenor Pat Gibney heads up a team of 15 health and safety reps at Grampian Country Pork Halls Ltd in Broxburn, Scotland.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Usdaw leads the way
A new HSE guide for trade union safety reps on slips and trips is based on an idea that Usdaw first started promoting three years ago.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Letters
Award winning member Gretta Rogers
Bipin Pitrola, Area Organiser, Cardiff.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Award winning members Margaret Elvin and Fiona Third
Lawrence Wason, Divisional Officer, Scotland.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Britannia rescue for Karen at ADM
Karen Carpenter, Northants Retail Food branch E25.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Loyal members in the spotlight
Michael Gordon, Chesterfield & District F10 and Mike Dixon, Branch Secretary, Yorkshire Morrisons F61.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Memorabilia wanted
Dr Lynn Sinclair, Women’s History Curator, Dudley.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Mr Usdaw!
Stuart Sharman, Area Organiser, Bury-St-Edmunds.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Rep wins driver of the year
Suzie Green, Area Organiser, Andover.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Safety first on course
M Ray Shaw, Tesco Retail C21.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Susan Wills: 30 year award
Heidi Trowers, West Wiltshire A24.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Lifelong Learning
Joint approach helps staff progress
Members at the JD Williams home shopping call centre in Manchester can now access online learning thanks to a new partnership deal with adult learning providers Learndirect.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Learner Sam comes out top in Wales
Union learning rep Sam Rawlinson was awarded first prize at the Wales TUC for her outstanding contribution to learning at her workplace First Milk Cheese Company in Wrexham.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Reps climb the Orange Tree
The arrival of a new book lending library at the Sainsbury’s distribution depot in Haydock will help more than 1,000 staff rediscover a whole new world of reading.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
The future is bright
Usdaw has joined forces with Co-operative Retail Logistics (CRL) to deliver lifelong learning to more than 300 staff at their distribution site in Nottingham.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Window of opportunity
Getting involved with lifelong learning gave Jacqui Gormal the confidence she needed to realise one of her lifetime ambitions and study for a diploma at Glasgow Metropolitan College.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
News In Brief
Organising Academy
Pensions
Contracting out of SERPS
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) launched an investigation in 2005 after concerns about sales of Appropriate Personal Pensions (APPs) sold since 1988 – the policies used to contract out.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Pension course - sign up now
More than 1,000 Usdaw members have signed up for the union’s Home Study Pensions course and you could join them.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Pension news in brief
Pension news.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Pension trustee?
Are you an Usdaw member who is, or interested in becoming, a trustee of your pension scheme, or on a Pensions Consultative Committee?
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Personal accounts
The Government is due to publish its response to the consultation on the Personal Accounts White Paper later this month, writes pensions officer Eleanor Lewington.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
People and Events
Activist in depth: Sonia Foster
As part of a regular feature, Network meets up with one of Usdaw’s 10,500 strong army of reps and finds out what life is like at the sharp end. In this issue Southern division’s Sonia Foster answers our questions.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Obituary: Graham Markall
Usdaw was left stunned after the tragic and unexpected death of former head of research Graham Markall less than 12 months after he retired from the union. He was 56.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Obituary: Paul Johnson
At this year’s ADM Midlands activist Paul Johnson died suddenly. He was 51.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Staff appointments
Stewart Forrest is the new deputy divisional officer in Scotland and three new area organisers have been appointed – Melanie Greenhalgh, Kieron Murphy and Jack Faulds.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Staff retirements
Eastern organiser Sheila Thomas and Scottish organiser Dougie Johnstone retired in April.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Politics
Usdaw backs Brown and Blears
Usdaw’s Executive Council (EC) has endorsed Gordon Brown to be Labour’s next leader and nominated Salford MP Hazel Blears to be his deputy.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Recruitment and Organising
Work and Life
Foster deal at Tesco
Usdaw has welcomed a pioneering agreement with Tesco that will give employees up to five days paid leave for training to become foster carers.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Young Workers
Active rep: Tim Sloan
Young people will join the union if asked says Argos customer advisor and union rep Tim Sloan.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Danger at work
MPs from all political parties along with prime minister Tony Blair are throwing their support behind a new plan calling for action over young deaths at work.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Make a difference - get involved
Usdaw is continuously working to improve young members rights at work and is currently running a special young workers campaign.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Speak Up
Have you something to say on the issues affecting young people at work and in society?
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Stacey leads young team
Like many young workers 25 year-old Stacey Keyse didn’t know much about the union until she had a problem at work and her rep advised her to join.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
Youth and experience
Mother and daughter team Yvonne Thomkins and Amanda Kentstone make it a blend of youth and experience down at the Sainsbury’s store in Crystal Palace and their winning tactics are getting results.
25 June 2007 [Full Story]
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