UNION NEWS: Union General Meeting – 7pm Tuesday – Ramphal Building
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The first Union General Meeting of the year will be held in R0.21 (Ramphal building) at at 7pm with Gemma Tumelty, General Secretary of NUS speaking at 6:30pm. All students should attend and have their say.
What is a General Meeting?
Well it is a town-hall style meeting, where any student can come and discuss their views on the different motions up for discussion, you also have an opportunity to ask Officers questions at the beginning of the meeting. Decisions made at a general meeting override those made by Union Council. So make sure you put it in your diary and come along and have your say about what the Union does.
What are going to talk about?
The full agenda is here. There are four important policies up for discussion, you can read their brief descriptions below.
What do I need?
Yourself and your uni card
General Meeting Motions
Military in the Union
To lapse the current policy that bans the military recruiting in the Union. Full motion here, although it is perhaps more useful to read the current policy which it is proposed is lapsed
Warwick in Asia
To discuss and decide the Union's position on Warwick in Asia. This motion will be withdrawn if Univeristy Council decide not to go. Full motion is here
Fees
To update the Union's Fees policy and agree to campaign to make sure the government keeps the cap. Full motion is here
Housing Policy
To update the Union's Housing Policy and to campaign against agents that release their housing lists to early. Full motion is here
17 Oct 2005 18:48
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Curtis Johnson
Check out this article. Are our policticians supporting us?
WARD HARKAVY, VILLAGE VOICE, 2000 – Twice in three days last week, Hillary
Rodham Clinton basked in the adulation of cheering union members. Her
record
of supporting collective bargaining, however, is considerably worse than
wobbly. Pity the thousands of unionists at last Tuesday's state Democratic
convention who chanted her name, and the hundreds of retired Teamsters at
Thursday's luncheon in midtown who had interrupted their Founder's Day meal
to hear the corporate litigator turned union-loving Democrat deliver a
campaign speech.
They would have dropped their forks if they had heard that Hillary served
for six years on the board of the dreaded Wal-Mart, a union-busting
behemoth. If they had learned the details of her friendship with Wal-Mart,
they might have lost their lunches. . . In 1986, when Hillary was first
lady
of Arkansas, she was put on the board of Wal-Mart. Officials at the time
said she wasn't filling a vacancy. In May 1992, as Hubby's presidential
campaign heated up, she resigned from the board of Wal-Mart. Company
officials said at the time that they weren't going to fill her vacancy.
So what the hell was she doing on the Wal-Mart board? According to press
accounts at the time, she was a show horse at the company's annual meetings
when founder Sam Walton bused in cheering throngs to celebrate his
non-union
empire, which is headquartered in Arkansas, one of the country's poorest
states. According to published reports, she was placed in charge of the
company's "green" program to protect the environment. But nobody got
greener
than Sam Walton and his family. For several years in the '80s, he was
judged
the richest man in America by Forbes magazine. . .
Was Hillary the voice of conscience on the board for American and foreign
workers? Contemporary accounts make no mention of that. They do describe
her
as a "corporate litigator" in those days, and they mention, speaking of
environmental matters, that she also served on the board of Lafarge, a
company that, according to a press account, once burned hazardous fuels to
run its cement plants. . .
The Clintons depended on Wal-Mart's largesse not only for Hillary's regular
payments as a board member but for travel expenses on Wal-Mart planes and
for heavy campaign contributions to Bill's campaigns there and nationally.
.
.
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart's first lady, who also benefited from Wal-Mart stock,
solicits support from union workers. Which makes her words to the elderly
Teamsters last week especially poignant: "You can count on me to stand up
for the right to collectively bargain!" Right on, sister!
09 Feb 2006, 01:57
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