London roadshow 11am Conway Hall 26.03.10?

[LouBarlow]

The amount of crap the reps have to put up with, I don't begrudge them the odd day-off to attend conferences!

[Big Daz]

Maybe they're embarrassed to show the members what the the branch activists look like.

What is the average age of the branch secretaries?

What is the average age of the branch committees?

Does this have anything to do with the ease with which our pension terms were changed?

We all know what age group has the voting and buying power in this country.

Majority of my BC are 30's and 40's

1 person in their 20's and a RM pensioner who is the retired members secretay and a fomer very very long serving IR rep at local level and Area Del rep level

Why the age query, shouldnt ability be the issue? A brain is a brain regardless of the body its housed in.

It was members of the letters secion commitee who are all IR reps along with the sectional (different from branch) secretary who also holds a IR rep post that went from my branch.

P.S

CWU TV were there

PPPS

Im 35 but became active in the CWU at the age of 26 and have done continuous service ever since, at what point would you like me to step down from active service?

[dvbuk55]

Maybe they're embarrassed to show the members what the the branch activists look like.

What is the average age of the branch secretaries?

What is the average age of the branch committees?

Does this have anything to do with the ease with which our pension terms were changed?

We all know what age group has the voting and buying power in this country.

Majority of my BC are 30's and 40's

1 person in their 20's and a RM pensioner who is the retired members secretay and a fomer very very long serving IR rep at local level and Area Del rep level

Why the age query, shouldnt ability be the issue? A brain is a brain regardless of the body its housed in.

It was members of the letters secion commitee who are all IR reps along with the sectional (different from branch) secretary who also holds a IR rep post that went from my branch.

P.S

CWU TV were there

PPPS

Im 35 but became active in the CWU at the age of 26 and have done continuous service ever since, at what point would you like me to step down from active service?

Well it won't be a question of stepping down will it, it will be a question of having nothing to represent.

[Big Daz]

Not even a local assocation of staff

[gb93]

Come on Big Daz i am sure you said you were going to meeting today(hope i am right ).

Anything you can enlighten us poor unfortunates on about the deal.(who couldnt make it or were not invited)

GOOD or BAD .

[dvbuk55]

Not even a local assocation of staff

Do you know BD that is a very very good idea - a workers association based on local needs without all the baggage that a national association brings with it. Now they could really take off - of course it would need political affiliation, treasurer, secretary, finance, preferential loans, expense accounts, and copious quantities of snake oil

[REDLETTER]

Come on Big Daz i am sure you said you were going to meeting today(hope i am right ).

Anything you can enlighten us poor unfortunates on about the deal.(who couldnt make it or were not invited)

GOOD or BAD .

All quiet on the London Front!

or is Big Daz still at the meeting and using his Netbook during a slow bit

[BELIAL]

Not even a local assocation of staff

Do you know BD that is a very very good idea - a workers association based on local needs without all the baggage that a national association brings with it. Now they could really take off - of course it would need political affiliation, treasurer, secretary, finance, preferential loans, expense accounts, and copious quantities of snake oil

you forgot management funding and a no national strike agreement

[fishtank]

Not even a local assocation of staff

Do you know BD that is a very very good idea - a workers association based on local needs without all the baggage that a national association brings with it. Now they could really take off - of course it would need political affiliation, treasurer, secretary, finance, preferential loans, expense accounts, and copious quantities of snake oil

you forgot management funding and a no national strike agreement

Or indeed a no local strike agreement.

"The agreement will be consistently deployed at local level with continuity of service in a way that means managerial executive action and industrial action become unnecessary"

[MinisterofCucumber]

Will anyone tell us what happened at the meeting?

[BELIAL]

Not even a local assocation of staff

Do you know BD that is a very very good idea - a workers association based on local needs without all the baggage that a national association brings with it. Now they could really take off - of course it would need political affiliation, treasurer, secretary, finance, preferential loans, expense accounts, and copious quantities of snake oil

you forgot management funding and a no national strike agreement

Or indeed a no local strike agreement.

"The agreement will be consistently deployed at local level with continuity of service in a way that means managerial executive action and industrial action become unnecessary"

Mea culpa , worse than I thought. Still if you are listening London and you do manage to strike,this deal says you are on your own, for good, end of, period

[Big Daz]

Will anyone tell us what happened at the meeting?

The same as all the others Dave, Ray, Martin, and Bob explained it all then took questions from the floor. Personally I dont consider there to have been any hard sell just explantions and you either belive that the explanation is good enough or it isnt.

If you play nice I might share my notes with you in a day or two, thats if I can read my own handwriting

[Big Daz]

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[MinisterofCucumber]

Big Daz,

I made the age query because members usually do what the branch recommends. If the decision makers in the branches are close to retirement they will be less effected by the pension changes and will suffer less. Also, this proposal includes some improved EVR terms to bribe the older generation.

What was the mood of the meeting?

[Big Daz]

The meeting was just like a mini conference.

Mood was absolutley fine, everyone was bright and happy. I belive many a rep met up with other reps they hadnt seen for a while, I myself met up with a fellow rep from a course that I did last summer.

I did learn that RML are tring to block VR for profssional drivers and engineers, Ray Ellis will be tackling RML on this

It is belived that the reason is due to cost.

I also learnt something about a certain poster on this site, but for now my lips are sealed except to the moderators and POSTMAN.

Now if youll excuse me a quick look around then I must do something with my notes and do some DTD calculations for every delivery duty in the D.O. Cant beat a bit of CWU homework