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CWU East Midlands Branch - Annual General Meeting - Thursday 25 February 2010 at 19:30, Peterborough Newark Hotel.

AGENDA

1. Chair’s Opening Remarks
2. Apologies
3. Adoption of Secretaries’ Reports
4. Adoption of Financial Report
5. Motions to the AGM
6. Elections of Officers/Committees/Delegations
7. Propositions to 2010 Annual Conference
8. Nominations for National Officers / Executives
9. Guest Speaker
10. Prize Draw/Close of Meeting

2010 – BRANCH AGM ELECTIONS - Nominations are invited for the following posts under Branch Rule 9

• Chair
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• Secretary (to be elected from separate constituency to Chair)
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• Financial Secretary

• Assistant Secretaries: - (8, comprising of 2 Clerical, 3 Engineering, PTS, 2 unspecified of which at least one must be elected from each of the constituent locations)
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• Equality Officer

• Political Officer

• Youth Officer

• Committee Members: - (maximum of 6 of which a minimum of one must be elected from, Leicester, Northampton, Nottingham & Peterborough)
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• Health, Safety & Environment Co-ordinator
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• Sectional Committees: - Clerical, Engineering & PTS Secretary & Chair to be elected from constituent members following AGM
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• Conference Delegation: - Up to seven reflecting constituency balance
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• Auditors (2)

All nominations must be proposed & seconded by East Midlands branch members in writing, and must confirm the candidate’s written consent to the nomination. All nominations should be forwarded to the Branch Secretary, to be received by close of play Friday 15 January 2010. To: Les Marriott (Branch Secretary), CWU East Midlands Branch Office, Postpoint 103, Derngate TE, Northampton, NN1 1LZ. Email: - secretary@cwu-eastmidlands.org.uk

Les Marriott (Branch Secretary)
22 December 2009

General Conference Proposition Meeting, 6pm, Tuesday 16 February 2010, Meeting Room 2, Charnwood Place, South Albion Street, Leicester, LE1 6LJ.

AGENDA - The purpose of this meeting will be to discuss the adoption of any propositions by the branch to go forward to CWU Annual General Conference.

Any propositions for consideration should be forwarded by email or by post to the Branch Secretary, to be received not later than midday, Tuesday 9 February 2010.

By post: Les Marriott (Branch Secretary), CWU East Midlands Branch Office, Postpoint 103, Derngate TE,
Northampton, NN1 1LZ. By email: secretary@cwu-eastmidlands.org.uk

Les Marriott (Branch Secretary)
12 January 2010

MEMBERS IN BT OPENREACH - Please be aware your line manager may approach you to discuss the new Attendance Patterns (which come into effect from April 2010). Members are advised that those who can genuinely not comply with new hours/days should receive a sympathetic response from their line managers and a willingness to compromise.

Anyone not receiving such a response is urged to contact the CWU for support and advice. Our contact details are 0845-600 1546 or union@cwu-eastmidlands.org.uk.

BT Retail – Project Holborn Update (December 2009)

The Branch has arranged further update meetings for members - 12th Jan 2010 - 12noon to 2pm, G.01, Castle Wharf, Nottingham. 14th Jan 2010 - 12noon to 2pm, Mtg Rm 2, Charnwood Place, Leicester.

The CWU are continuing talks with BT Retail on the five strands under Project Holborn. The latest report is in the October Voice magazine article.

Strand 1 - Resourcing
Strand 2 – Attendance
Strand 3 – Performance Management/Management Style
Strand 4 – Incentivisation
Strand 5 – Training

The CWU has teams negotiating each strand and a Governance Team which will oversee all aspects of the discussions and will meet on a regular basis.

BT stressed that their priority is to make progress on the Attendance Strand, although it was agreed that these discussions were interlinked with the Resourcing profile, particularly the off shore piece and the return of jobs from India.

In the interim members working in certain BT Retail call centres have been asked to volunteer to cover jeopardy periods on a voluntary basis, through until January 2010 (by which time it is hoped that negotiations will be concluding). There should be no pressure or coercion by managers to get their team members to volunteer. However the CWU would ask those members that can help out, to do so. This is to enable the bringing back of work from overseas call-centres and to ensure job security for those based working in the UK.

The CWU stressed that the Retail Sourcing Strategy was still an extant agreement and as such the principles contained still remained. The union also expressed the need to open urgent discussions on the issue of Performance Management/Management Style as this was critical to the success of Project Holborn. The starting point for these discussions would be from the Leading the Way agreement.

Members will be sent details of the proposals as soon as a date has been confirmed.
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CWU EAST MIDLANDS BRANCH - SELF-DEFENCE GUIDE TO SURVIVING PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Members working in BT Retail will soon receive a copy of the booklet produced by the branch on how members can defend themselves if they face unfair and/or unwarranted Performance Management.

The booklet contains two template letters for use if necessary and these template letters are available here to be downloaded and amended according to each individual case and circumstances.

Template Letter Informal Complaint Performance Management

Template letter Formal Grievance Performance Management

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