UNISON National Executive Council is made up of 68 people from across the union. It runs the union in between conferences and it’s important that members are democratically elected every two years by as many members as possible, so that the NEC has the widest democratic mandate to take the union in the direction members have chosen.
Voting will be from 21 April to 21 May. Lookout for your ballot paper which will be posted to your home address.
Members can vote in all the regional seats and all the national Black and disabled member and young member seats, regardless of your own ethnicity or whether you consider yourself disabled or not.
UNISON, like any organisation, needs to change and adapt to new conditions if it is to succeed. Our branch committee believes that the candidates we nominated will continue to see through the kind of changes we need in UNISON and will deliver on their promises.
- UNISON must be a member-led union – we believe this means that elected members should run our union, not appointed full-time officials. Elected representatives must be the real leaders.
- We need to be an organising, not a servicing, union – we cannot solve all of our members’ problems on a one-by-one basis. Members will always need individual support, but the focus should be on collective action.
- UNISON should play a positive but challenging role with the Labour Government. We should promote UNISON policy on public services, and not accept austerity as inevitable from any government.
- We must review UNISON’s main legal services contract and particularly the difficulties branches have accessing timely employment law advice.
Take part in UNISON’s NEC elections. It’s your union, so have your say in how it’s run!
Obviously, how you vote is up to you, but please read the candidates’ statements before you do. Our branch has nominated the following 13 candidates…
Dan Sartin, South East General seat
Abi Holdsworth, South East Female seat
Corinna Edwards-Colledge, South East Female seat
Amerit Rait, Black members Male sat
Antonia Bright, Black members Female seat
Julia Mwaluke, Black members Reserved seat
April Ashley, Black members Female seat
Tara Thomas, Disabled members General seat
Ellie Waple, Disabled members Female seat
Kameron Spence, Young members General seat
Natasha Bednall, Young members Female seat
Kath Owen, Higher Education Female seat
Jo Tapper, Higher Education General seat