Annual General Meeting: Reminder and final agenda

This year’s UNISON AGM is just a week away

WHEN?

There will be a series of meetings held online between 22nd and 26th March 2021

WHAT?

This is the most important meeting on the branch calendar, and we are not going to let a little thing like lockdown stop us.

The Annual General Meeting is the ultimate decision-making body within the branch and is an opportunity for members to have their say, hold the Branch Committee to account and help shape the future direction of the branch for the next twelve months

AGENDA

The agenda has been published and is available to download here.

ELECTIONS

The meeting will elect your Branch Officers, Representatives and ratify the election of Workplace Stewards for the forthcoming year. The list of posts, nominations received, and vacant posts is on the paperwork in which can be downloaded from our website

Stewards’ nominations will be ratified at the branch AGM in March 2021.

BRANCH CHARITY

The meeting will vote on the branch charity for the year, we have had three nominations this year

  • There for you (UNISON’s own Welfare Charity)
  • Central Beacons Mountain Rescue (what it says on the tin)
  • Cefn Fforest Miners Hall (restoration of former Miners Institute and setting up of community hub)
  • Pancreatic Cancer Wales (funding research for a cure)

You will find more details of each of the charities in the paperwork attached to the agenda, which cn be downloaded from our websiteWe will automatically donate £500 to There for You. We then have another £500 to donate. The meeting will decide if it wants to the £500 to go to one charity or for it to be split between two or even all three of the other nominated charities – and which charities to support.

HOW TO REGISTER:

A link to register has gone out to all members via e-mail.

If you have any issues with registering for AGM via Eventbrite please email Event@UnisonCwmTafLGA.co.uk  with their membership or NI number) and we can manually register you.

WIN STUFF FOR ATTENDING

All members that attend the AGM will be entered into a free draw with the following prizes

  • Three night family break at Croyde Bay Resort – UNISON’s very own holiday camp on the North Devon coast https://www.croydeunison.co.uk/
  • Twelve months Gym membership for one (RCT or Merthyr Council Sports Centres)
  • Six months gym membership for one (RCT or Merthyr Council Sports Centres)
  • Spa voucher for Bryn Meadows (expiry date 31st December 2021). We have forty of these to give away so there is a pretty good chance you will win something by coming to the meeting.We look forward to catching up with you all at the meeting.