Roger Bannister 4 UNISON General Secretary
To: UNISON Branch Secretaries, Stewards & Members
31 January 2010
Dear Colleague
I have decided to canvas for nominations for the General Secretary election, to argue for radical change at the top of UNISON.
I fought this election in 2005, obtaining over 41,000 votes. Since then I have continued to campaign as an NEC member for the North West Region, for fighting policies to defend jobs and conditions of service. I am currently about to ballot members for strike action in defence of our 35 Hour Week Agreement, and against the imposition of a redeployment policy by the employer that will lead to compulsory redundancies. It is my belief that UNISON needs a General Secretary with this Hands On experience of dealing with the problems faced by ordinary members.
My election programme would be based on:
• A General Secretary on a Worker's Wage
• Fighting policies against spending cuts – defend all jobs – fight the pay freeze – not a penny off our pensions!
• UNISON members first - Break the link with New Labour, use our Political Fund to support candidates whose policies are best for UNISON members
• End low pay amongst UNISON members
• Oppose all privatisation
• Oppose the BNP & the Racist right
• Election of all officials
• For the right of all members to campaign under rule within the union without fear of attack
Yours sincerely
Roger Bannister (Membership Number 1318436)
2 comments:
What does election of all officials mean? Do you mean union full time officials, can the union afford to pay redundancy to the ones that dont get elected? What will the members think of the union putting unison staff all under threat of redundancy?
Anon, you'd have to ask Roger as its his request!
But IMO I think we should have our deputy General Secretary, Heads of Service Groups and Regional Secretaries elected.
Those holding those posts have a lot of responsibility to our members and should be democratically accountable to them.
At the moment they are not accountable.
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