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1 GMB CONGRESS 2018 …………………………… MALCOLM SAGE (Vice President) (In the Chair) ……………………… H GMB CONGRESS 2018 …………………………… MALCOLM SAGE (Vice President) (In the Chair) ……………………………. Held in: The Brighton Centre, Brighton on: Monday, 4th June 2018 Tuesday, 5th June 2018 and Wednesday, 6th June 2018 …………………………….. PROCEEDINGS DAY THREE (Wednesday, 6th June 2018) ………………………………. (Transcript prepared by: Marten Walsh Cherer Limited, 1st Floor, Quality House, 6-9 Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1HP. Telephone:020 7067 2900. email: [email protected] ................................................. 1 THIRD DAY‘S PROCEEDINGS WEDNESDAY, 6TH JUNE 2018 MORNING SESSION (Congress assembled at 9.00 a.m.) THE VICE-CHAIR: Good morning, colleagues. Can we settle down, please? Thank you. Yes? Colleagues, please, somebody is on the floor. Okay, Sarah, go ahead. POINT OF ORDER: SARAH HURLEY (London): Thank you, chair. Good morning, Congress, raising a point of order. (Applause/Cheers) Thank you. In solidarity, brothers and sisters. I would like to raise a point of order on the SOC Report last night covering the short notice given to cut speeches is difficult for disabled members. No changes were allowed to the report despite a number of people at the front indicating they wanted to speak. The vote did not seem valid and should have needed a teller count. We should be provided with a written report of a revised speaking time as it was difficult to hear the Chair‘s announcements. Congress, I ask you to support. (Applause) THE VICE-CHAIR: Thank you, Sarah. Yes, there was a point of order being made and it was allowed and I am sorry for that but the motion, the SOC Report, was carried. Okay. (General dissent) Tim is going to speak on this. THE GENERAL SECRETARY: Good morning, Congress. First of all, I want to start by saying thank you to you all because it has been a very, very long week and it is only Wednesday morning. Let me just take you through procedurally where we are at right now because it is trying to put a quart into a pint pot. Let me explain. In accordance with the rule book it is the CEC that sets the duration of Congress. It does not say in the rule book that Congress will start on a Saturday or a Sunday, and finish on a Thursday or Friday, it does not say that. It simply says the CEC will set the duration of Congress. Now, the CEC set the duration of Congress in the September meeting last year that said we would start on the Sunday with sectional conferences and we would finish at close of play Wednesday (if possible). That is in the minutes. I have the minutes with me if anyone wants to examine them. That was set by the CEC, not by me, not by the top table, not by Margaret or Malcolm; that was set by the CEC in September. Cut to February of this year, some four or five months later, we had all the motions in and we had a 30% increase in numbers of motions than we have had in recent years. So, Congress was to run from Sunday, sectional conferences, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and try to get 30% more business into three days, and that is what the top table, that is what the people in my team have been trying to work tirelessly to do. The reality, Congress, is, and I will be the first one to say I am so grateful for your cooperation with people moving and formally seconding, and the idea of Standing Orders Committee Report yesterday evening was to try and ensure that we get all 2 business done. This Congress has never had a record of not getting business done and the idea of the Standing Orders Committee Report last thing yesterday was to reduce speaking time, not to stop people moving motions. This is about giving people the opportunity, of course, to move your motion but to do it in a reduced time because we still have 100 motions to get through today, Congress. I am looking for your cooperation again today because it is going to be a very long day. I make no apologies for that. When we set out the timetable we said that Wednesday would be a full day so we may well go through to half past 5 or 6 o‘clock. The reality again is that there are very different views about this. Some people said to me last night, ―I am fed up already, Tim, I‘ve had too long a day, I was here from 9 o‘clock till 6 yesterday and I want to go home.‖ Other people are saying we should stay longer, we should have even longer time. The reality is what the CEC has given us in terms of the timetable we have to work within it. I am absolutely grateful for your assistance, your working with us, your response, your help, and that was the CEC Report‘s intention last night. In terms of it being in writing, Sarah, I think that is a very good point. I went up to the Standing Orders Committee last night and I said to them, ―Can we have it writing, please? I can‘t even remember what was agreed.‖ I remember the three minutes, I remember the formally second, but there were a few bits attached to it. We will work on that, I give you that promise. Also, Congress, we will work on a number of other things that we have to learn from this week. There is the timing of Congress. We need to think about the timing of Congress. As I have said, there is no set time but if from learning the lessons from this Congress we have to look at extending the time, then the CEC will do that. We do, of course, have the luxury now because you have agreed it that we will not have sectional conferences to contend with in Congress. They will be separate and they will be annual, so that will give us extra time. For example, we could have all day Sunday as well. We will look at the motions that are in, that are statements that don‘t call for action. We will look at whether we should take those or not. We will look at the length of time the CEC speakers have taken. We will look at everything. I give you that assurance. The one thing that no one on this top table is intent on doing is cutting or stymieing democracy at all. The intention of trying to reduce speaking time is to ensure we get all business done, that everybody gets the opportunity to move their motions, and everybody gets their say. Thank you again for your cooperation, all of you, it means the absolute world to me, to Malcolm, to Margaret, and to everyone. Look at the successes we have celebrated so far this week from every single corner of this room, amazing successes, brilliant work. We are a family. We are one union. Yes, we fall out, occasionally we fall out, we did last night, but we are not going to go away from Brighton with anything other than a united front so thank you for listening and thank you very much. (Applause) THE VICE-CHAIR: Colleagues, thank you for understanding that. I will just point out that it is the celebration of D-Day. We do acknowledge it and we think of those people that gave their lives for our country so that we could have a democracy to have Congress. Thank you. (Applause) 3 Thank you, colleagues, for making the effort to arrive earlier in the hall than originally scheduled. Due to unforeseen numbers of motions this year we have a lot of motions to discuss today. I am conscious we should do our best to ensure the Congress business is concluded in good time. You will note from the session plan that unlike previous days there is no separate plan for the morning and afternoon session. I want to assure delegates that we will be having a lunch break. The decision for the timing of lunch will have to be taken when we have concluded as much of this morning‘s business as possible. Following the SOC Report No. 4, which was carried by Congress at the end of yesterday‘s afternoon session, I want to remind delegates to comply with the recommended revised speakers‘ time. Movers will have three minutes to move the motion, seconding will be done formally unless the seconding speech includes pertinent information that the mover did not include. We have one emergency motion from Yorkshire & North Derbyshire, and it will be taken during the motions on International. It is called, The Murder of Three Nestle Trade Unionists in Columbia. Congress, our next business is the Local Gift but before we start can I first ask speakers on carried-over Motions 247 to 251 to make their way to the front and while you are doing this Standing Orders Committee will take the floor. LOCAL GIFT THE VICE-CHAIR: This year, the Southern Region has chosen to give the Congress Local Gift to the children‘s cancer charity Momentum. I call on Paul Maloney, Regional Secretary, to say a few words. (Applause) PAUL MALONEY (Southern): I am the first victim of the President this morning, ―Make it quick,‖ he said. When do I ever speak and make it quick! Paul Maloney of Southern Region accepting the Gift of Congress to give to one of our local charities, Momentum. Momentum is a charity that prepares children with life-threatening diseases before they go into hospital and they create a warm home-like environment for those children with play areas, musical activities, so those children feel they are not going into hospital, they are moving from home to home.
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