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First Day's Proceedings Sunday 11Th June 2006 1 FIRST DAY’S PROCEEDINGS goes wrong, we will blame Dolores because we always blame the new girl. Welcome, Dolores. You and your SUNDAY 11TH JUNE 2006 team have done a great job. (Applause) MORNING SESSION I would like to welcome the General Member Auditors: David Boyle, Ed Hamilton and Les White, who (Congress assembled at 10.30 a.m.) will be counting any votes this week. Les, would you like to stand and make Congress aware as to where OPENING OF CONGRESS you are? Thank you. I would also like to welcome some other guests. THE PRESIDENT: Congress, come to order, please. At the moment we have in the hall Bill Smith, John Good morning. Welcome everyone to sunny Cope and John Whelan. They are around, believe you Blackpool. We can say that with a smile this year. me, somewhere. As to the other guests, we will be Colleagues, you have in your wallets written details of letting Congress know as and when they arrive. I the safety instructions. Please make sure you read know that Glenys Wilmot MEP will be arriving later. them. We are also about to hear a safety video, so Later on we will be hearing from some foreign guests. please listen carefully. I welcome the verbatim shorthand writers, Michael Thear and Phyllis Hilder. I also welcome the (The Public Safety Announcement was made) sign language interpreters, Nigel Cleaver, Jo Ross and Zane Hema. I want to remind all officers, delegates and visitors I ask delegates to ensure that you have all of that mobile phones are to be turned off or put to your important documents, by which I mean your silence. If not, it will be £5 to Mary’s favourite programme, the order of business, although during charity. It may go up each time someone is caught, the week that order of business may change, all especially if they are caught more than once. So motions and rule amendments remaining on the beware! Agenda, all composite motions, Standing Orders Committee Report No. 1, the Standing Orders BANNER CEREMONY Guidelines for Congress business, including time limits for speakers, the Representation Statement THE PRESIDENT: Delegates, I call Congress to order and the Decisions of the Recall Congress 2005. Will for the Opening Ceremony. This year we have asked all delegates please make sure that you have those Liverpool, North Wales & Irish Region to form the documents. Banner Party. Would Congress please be upstanding. I also ask all delegates to wear their identification badges. (Congress stood as the Banner Party proceeded to the platform to the accompaniment of “Jerusalem”) ROLL CALL I thank Liverpool, North Wales & Irish Region THE PRESIDENT: I call on Debbie Coulter to call the delegates who have done such an excellent job. Thank Roll. you. (The Deputy General Secretary called the roll) WELCOME TO DELEGATES AND VISITORS THE DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY: If Regional THE PRESIDENT: It gives me great pleasure, Secretaries would notify the Congress Office of any Congress, to invite all our delegates and visitors to further alterations that would be very helpful. Congress this year and to remind new delegates that I know how nervous you are going to be feeling, APPOINTMENT OF TELLERS wondering when you are going to be called if you are moving or seconding resolutions. Please remember, THE PRESIDENT: Congress, the next item is the we have all been there. Do not forget, do not think Appointment of Tellers. Debbie? that I do not get nervous when I am speaking from where I am sitting, and that includes Paul Kenny or THE DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY: The following anyone else. It is your Congress and we will do all we tellers have been appointed. can to make it as comfortable, easy and as pleasant for you. Birmingham I would like to announce who is on the platform. No. 1 - Sandra Tanner will count Southern. We have Debbie Coulter, our Deputy General Secretary, Malcolm Sage, our Vice President, Paul Lancashire Kenny, the General Secretary and Dolores No. 2 - Jimmy Talbot will count South Western. O’Donoghue, who is new at these tasks. So if anything 2 Liverpool THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, Debbie. There No. 3 - Derek Sutcliffe will count Yorkshire. is a little bucket at the back of the hall for all of them. London No. 4 - Barbara Benham will count Birmingham. CONFIRMATION OF THE STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE Midland No. 5 - Shaune Clarkson will count Lancashire THE PRESIDENT: We now come to the confirmation of the Standing Orders Committee. Northern No. 6 - George Murray will count Liverpool. THE DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY: Thank you, President. Just to confirm the composition of the GMB Scotland Standing Orders Committee, which is as follows: No. 7 - Dorothy Ann King will count London. BIRMINGHAM & WEST MIDLANDS Brian Adams Southern LANCASHIRE William Pope No. 8 - Jack Cheeseman will count Midland. LIVERPOOL, NORTH WALES & IRISH Andy McGivern LONDON John Onslow South Western MIDLAND & EAST COAST Andy Fletcher No. 9 - Russell Mardon will count Northern. NORTHERN Gerry Ferguson GMB SCOTLAND Mary Finn Yorkshire SOUTHERN Alan Durrant No. 10 - Colin Gill will count GMB Scotland. SOUTH WESTERN Gareth Lewis YORKSHIRE Peter Bagnell Let me re-emphasise the fact that Tellers must remain in the Congress Hall whilst Congress is in THE PRESIDENT: I now ask Gerry Ferguson to move session and the delegates must be in their seats Standing Orders Committee Report No. 1, which when a vote is taken. begins on page 26 of the Final Agenda document. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 1 The business of Congress will be conducted in accordance with the Agenda, the Programme and the Guidelines for Congress Business, subject to changes at the President's discretion. TIMES FOR CONGRESS The Standing Orders Committee wishes to draw the attention of Delegates to the starting times of the morning and afternoon sessions set out in the Congress programme as follows: Sunday 11 June 10.00 am - 12.30 pm 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm Monday 12 June to Thursday 15 June 9.30 am - 12.30 pm 2.00pm - 5.00pm The Standing Orders Committee recommends that the President be authorised to close each session when appropriate, without further reference to the Standing Orders Committee or to Congress. TIMES FOR SPEAKERS The Standing Orders Committee recommends the following Time Limits for Speakers. General Motions and Rule Amendments: Movers up to 4 Minutes Seconders up to 2 Minutes Other Speakers up to 2 Minutes Officers' Reports: General Secretary up to 10 Minutes 3 Deputy General Secretary up to 7 Minutes Movers of Section Reports up to 5 Minutes Questions up to 1 Minute Officers' and Section Reports, and questions to them, should relate only to matters of general policy, and not to details of negotiations. Special Reports and CEC Statements: Mover up to 6 Minutes Seconder up to 3 Minutes Other Speakers up to 3 Minutes It would help the business of Congress enormously if, wherever possible, motions could be formally seconded, and if replies to questions and debates were kept to a minimum. The Standing Orders Committee draws Delegates' attention to the two rostrums and asks speakers to be ready by the vacant rostrum when it is their turn to speak. Chairs will be provided at the front of the hall for speakers awaiting their turn. QUESTIONS ON BALANCE SHEET AND AUDITORS' REPORT Questions on the Balance Sheet and Auditors' Report must be submitted in writing to the Congress platform no later than 10am, Monday 12 June. MOTIONS OUT OF ORDER The Standing Orders Committee has ruled that the following Motions are Out of Order for the reasons specified: Motion 34: Branch Secretary The motion calls for Union employees to be excluded from holding the post of Branch Secretary, by supporting a Rule Amendment Motion. The objective of the motion requires amendments to Rules 37.4 and 39, and is out of order for this reason. Motion 48: Retired Members The motion calls for retired members to be see as fully financial when they have paid their lifetime retired member rate. It is not clear what objective the motion is seeking to achieve, but it would in any event require amendments to a number of rules including 18.2, 47, and 49A.5, and is out of order for this reason. Motion 201: Political Affiliation The motion calls for an end to organisational affiliation to the Labour Party, which would require an amendment to Rules, including 20.10, and is out of order for this reason. RA 369: Rule 39 Branch Secretary This Rule Amendment proposes to amend Rule 39 to exclude Union employees from holding the post of Branch Secretary. This would create a conflict with Rule 37.4, which provides that Regions may in some circumstances direct an Organiser to conduct the duties of a Branch Secretary pro-tem. There is no corresponding amendment to Rule 37.4, and it is out of order for this reason. COMPOSITE MOTIONS Agreement has been reached on the Composite Motions printed in the Final Agenda. EMERGENCY MOTIONS The Committee has ruled that the following Emergency Motions are in order: Emergency Motion 1: “Emergency Motion – 2003 and 2004 Elections Lancashire Region”, standing in the name of Lancashire Region. Emergency Motion 2: “Redundancies in the NHS”, standing in the name of Birmingham & West Midlands Region. Emergency Motion 3: “Compulsory Water Meters”, standing in the name of Liverpool, North Wales & Irish Region. 4 MOBILE PHONES If mobile phones are brought into the Congress Hall, they must be switched off at all times when Congress is in session. FILM CAMERAS The Standing Orders Committee has given permission for film cameras to be used in the Conference Hall.
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