UNITE conference dates

Despite the last EC meeting (nearly a month ago now) agreeing to my proposal that the dates and arrangements for all the conferences etc should be posted on the union web site, this still hasn't happened as far as I can see, even though some conferences have already been held.

These are the dates I've been told so far for the EEE sector Regional Industrial Sector Conferences are:

• North East, Yorks & Humber: UPDATE: 10th September 2009
  
• Wales: 14th September 2009
• North West: 15th September 2009
• South West: 16th September 2009
• West Midlands: 17th September 2009
• South East: 19th September 2009 (NB: union web site says 12th September, so worth checking)
  
• East Midlands: 21st September 2009
• Ireland: 24th September 2009
• London & Eastern: TBC
  
• Scotland: TBC

If you get any updates, please let me know and I'll post them here to encourage attendance.

I haven't got any of the dates for the IT & Communications sector yet.

Update on ITC Regional Industrial Sector Conferences (from UNITE web site):

• South West: 7th September 2009
• Wales: 7th September 2009
• West Midlands: 8th September 2009
• South East: 19th September 2009
• East Midlands: 21st September 2009
• North East, Yorkshire & Humber: 21st September 2009

For details of the constituencies etc for the conferences, please see my report from the July EC meeting.

In the North West, I've also heard:

• Manchester Area Activists: 10th September 2009
• NW Disabled Conference: 7th October 2009
  
• NW Women's Conference: 8th October 2009
  
• NW Black & Minority Ethnic (BAME) Conference: 9th October 2009
  
• NW LGBT Conference: 12th October 2009
  

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UNITE equality structures

There's a helpful piece on the UNITE web site explaining the new equality structures.

I particularly like the diagram:
This particular picture is worth several thousand words!

If you're eligible for any of the equality structures, please make sure you get involved.

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Pensions fight hots up - IBM & Fujitsu

If the posts to the "Association of Members of IBM UK Pension Plans" forums are anything to go by, there is an astonishing growth of union membership at IBM, once a bastion of non-unionism.

It's good to see UNITE working to ensure that this builds organisation, not just membership, with UNITE meetings open to all IBM staff organised for:

• 7pm on Wed 5th Aug, in the Holiday Inn (M3 junction 13), Leigh Road, Eastleigh, S050 9PG.
• Midlands on Thu 6th or Fri 7th Aug.
• A meeting in Scotland is being also discussed.

Meanwhile we at Fujitsu start our consultative industrial action ballot over pay and pensions this week. If you'd like to send us a message of support, click on the link below to see the email address:
supp...@..union.org.uk

I'm pleased to say that our sister union in Fujitsu, PCS, is balloting its members too - unity is strength!

For more information about our campaign, see www.ourunion.org.uk.

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