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Who's who or handy folk to know
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Lilian
and Stephen, Scottish Region Delegates
Lilian and Stephen are elected as Scotland’s
reps to Conference by the union’s Scottish
Council of branches. Click here for details of
what they do at Conference and how they can help.
Lilian is from Lanarkshire Health Branch and
is UNISON Scotland Convener.
Stephen, from South Lanarkshire Branch, is Depute
Convener.
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Mike
Kirby, Scottish Secretary
Mike Kirby is Scotland’s top full time official.
Mike took over as Scottish Secretary in December
2010 after serving as Scottish Convener - Scotland’s
lead lay activist - since the merger that created
UNISON in 1993.
Mike was also for many years one of Scotland’s
lay Regional reps to National Conference. He was
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Maureen
Le Marinel, National President
Maureen is the is the first gay woman
to hold the office of president.
Maureen's long-term commitment to trade unions
started in 1984. After being discharged from the
army for being gay, she took a job in Lancashire
police's control room. After her six-month review,
she came out at work.
Sadly, she then became a target for bullying
by senior members of the force. But Maureen spoke
to her union Nalgo, which later merged to form
UNISON, and after one phone call, all the staff
who were bullying her were moved.
She was assistant branch secretary for 10 years,
and when Lancashire Police branch was founded
in 2006, she became its branch secretary. She
was elected to the National Executive Council
(NEC) in 2003.
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Dave
Prentis, General Secretary
Dave Prentis was elected in 2000 and
was re-elected in 2006 and 2010 and has 30 years
trade union experience.
Dave was born and brought up in Leeds and went
to the University of London where he took a BA
in history. This was followed by an MA in industrial
relations at the University of Warwick.
Well respected by politicians, employers and
journalists, Dave is a member of the TUC General
Council and its executive committee.
The Guardian newspaper wrote “Dave Prentis
in many ways defines the modern centre-left union
leader. Dave has led Britain’s biggest (public
sector) union formidably.” |
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Alison
Jaconellie, Standing Orders Committee Rep
Alison Jaconellie from UNISON Police Staff Scotland
Branch is Scotland’s rep on the Standing Orders
Committee which sets out the business for the week.
Alison will be the source of information on what’s
going on and whether your motion has any chance! |
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Conference briefings and website
service
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Kate Ramsden
John Stevenson
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The Scottish Communications and
Campaigns Committee, along with the Regional Delegates,
will issue daily briefings during Conference week
(new rules mean we are only allowed one briefing
a day).
It is not a ‘News’ service after
the event (after all you were there), it is for
briefing delegates before the event.
However, we will issue some special reports as
a basis for branch reports back home.
We will also be updating the website with most
of what goes out in print so you can get easy
access at www.unison-scotland.org.uk/conf2014.
The service is also there to be used by branches
to promote motions within Scottish policy.
In exceptional circumstances we can also help
with typing and communications with branches,
media etc back home.
Your contact is Kate Ramsden with SiU editor John
Stevenson giving a helpful hand and much welcome
advice! Unfortunately regular team member Jane
Aitchison can't be with us this year.
Other committee members will be helping out too.
It would be really helpful if speakers could let
the team know when they are speaking (so we can
get a photo) and provide a copy of their speech
for the reports.
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