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Annual report 2004 Annual Report Index Secretary Service Conditions Health & Safety Equalities Communications Education International Labour Link Membership Minutes of Branch Meetings			Membership and Attendances REPORT 2004 Membership up - but future challenges mean we need to recruit even more Yes, we're up in overall membership by 39 this year. Good news but we need to build more than that if we are going to really show our strength in the reorganisation challenges ahead. Management are keen to tell us that not all council employees are members. We need to be able to show them that the majority are and we are building all the time. Our union is only as strong as our membership so it is everyone's job to recruit. Surveys continue to show that most non-members are only non-members because no-one asked them to join. It is not rocket science, you don't need a 'hard-sell'. In most cases it just means giving someone a form! Benefits and discounts While representing members will always be the main role of the union, members do get many other benefits. Discount on mortgages, all types of insurance, holidays, legal and other services (click here) are just some of the offers open to members. If you know any company or service provider who may wish to consider offering discount to union members please advise us at the Branch Office. Department    31/12/2003 31/12/2004 Var Associated Bodies 282 248 -34 City Development 610 615 +5 Corporate Services 571 512 -59 Edinburgh Leisure 254 247 -7 Education  1,493 1,554 +61 Env & Consumer 337 335 -2 Finance 314 323 +9 Further Education 369 353 -16 Housing 568 596 +28 Culture & Leisure 411 396 -15 Social Work 2,811 2,846 +35 Valuation Joint Board 117 115 -2 Voluntary Sector 759 775 +16 Unallocated 11 12 +1 TOTAL 8,907 8,927 +20 Student  7 7 - Unemployed  22 24 +2 Retired Members  757 774 +17 Recruited 1/1/04 - 31/12/04 = 782 Officially resigned = 140 * See notes in the report above Audit for proportionality and Fair Representation Proportionality is slowly progressing with improvements at Branch Officer and Branch Committee level and a really welcome rise at Stewards level which should work through to the Branch Committee at least. Most Departments are trying hard but it is difficult in a climate of an overall shortage of activists, male or female. The manual and craft proportions are down but it reflects changes in the status of some jobs. In the big manual & craft areas (City Dev and Env & Cons) we are hitting and exceeding targets and proportionality is holding or improving. Figures are clouded if places are left vacant if there is no woman and a two delegate dept meets proportionality by having 50%. Figures in brackets show 2003 figures 1. Women Branch Branch Ctte Officers Stewards 67% (67%) 44% (38%) 38% (31%) 92% (42%) 2. Branch Committee breakdown Women, Manual & Craft and APT&C (and CO) Breakdown at 31/12/04 a)    Women on departmental delegations Department  Should be Actual Associated Bodies 49% (55%) 0% (0%)* City Development 25% (25%) 29% (19%) Corporate Services 73% (71%) 50% (50%) Culture & Leisure 56% (57%) 50% (36%) Edinburgh Leisure 46% (46%) 0% (0%) Education 81% (81%) 40% (39%) Env & Consumer 29% (27%) 0% (27%) Finance  66% (65%) 25% (33%) Further Education 63% (62%) 0% (50%) Housing 49% (49%) 0% (31%) Social Work  80% (81%) 69% (57%) Voluntary Sector 74% (72%) 50% (67%) Valuation Joint Board 48% (47%) 50% (50%)   b)    Manual/Craft on dept. delegations Department Should be Actual Associated Bodies 18% (17%)) No reps City Development 18% (17%)) 14% (29%) Corporate Services 49% (50%) 50% (17%) Culture & Leisure 18% (17%) 25% (18%) Edinburgh Leisure 19% (18%) 0% (0%) Education 3% (2%) 0% (0%) Env & Consumer 33% (37%) 50% (27%) Finance 0% (0%)   0% (0%) Further Education 34% (37%) 0% (25%) Housing 5% (6%)  0% (0%) Social Work  25% (27%) 6% (2%) Voluntary Sector 5% (5%) 0% (0%) Valuation Joint Board 0% (0%) 0% (0%) c)     Manual & Craft breakdown % of Branch Membership = 17% (19%) % of Branch Committee = 10% (4%) d)    Women on Manual/Craft delegations % of Women in MC membership = 63% (65%) % of Women among M&C delegates to Branch Committee = 20% (50%) e)     APT&C (and CO) breakdown % of Branch Membership = 67% (81%) % of Branch Committee = 90% (88%) f)      Women on APT&C delegations % Women in APT&C members = 68% (67%) % of Women among APT&C delegates to Branch Committee = 44% (39%) * Associated Bodies figure misreported last year. Conditions breakdowns show the percentages where conditions are known (ie in only 84% of cases). There are members, especially in Associated and other bodies, where the conditions category is not clear. There are still members where gender is not recorded but this is reducing. Stewards breakdown by conditions not available. Machinery not yet in place to relieably identify shift workers, disabled, lesbian or gay, black members. or part time and job share members. ATTENDANCES Branch Committee Attendances 2004   Possible Actual Branch Officers     Joe Galletta 12 0 Barbara Foubister 12 8 Matthew Creighton 12 8 John Stevenson 12 9 Mike McCrossan 12 0 John Mulgrew 12 5 George Lee 12 8 John Ross 12 10 Walter Weir 12 9 Alan Brown 12 9 Kevin Duguid 12 11 Agnes Petkevicius 12 6 Lyn Williams 12 9 Elaine Wishart 12 10 Tom McLeod 12 11 Irene Stout 12 7 Ken Scott 12 6 Gillian Allen 12 0 Mike Smith 12 0 Dot Paterson 12 2 Irene Heggie 12 10 Associated Bodies (3) No delegates appointed City Development (4)     Frank Donoghue 12 3 Craig McLeod 12 8 Jennifer Livingston 12 1 Alison Paterson 12 3 Corporate Services (4)     Mary Black 12 0 Jim Fyffe 12 0 Steve McDonald 12 9 Culture & Leisure (3)     Andrew Craig 12 4 Michael Durnan 12 3 Alison Gowrie/ Amanda Kerr 12 6 Edinburgh Leisure (3) No delegates appointed   Education (8)     Mike Pegg 12 9 Env & Cons (3)     Andrew Mitchell 12 3 Carole Simpson 12 6 Robert Gay 12 7 Finance (3)     Bill Craig 12 3 Further Education (3) No delegates appointed Housing (4)     Duncan Smith 12 11 Social Work (14)     Joan McBride/ Kirsten Hey 12 7 James Black/ John Murray 12 3 Ian McAdam/ Barry Carbis 12 3 Di Hall 12 2 Catriona Grant 12 6 Mark Kinghorn 12 1 Rose Jackson 12 12 Ann Goswell 12 5 Vicky Kerr 12 4 Marlyn Tweedie 12 8 Valuation Joint Board (2)     Linda Bissett 12 0 Tom Conn 12 0 Voluntary Sector (5) No delegates appointed Self Organised Groups   Rena Lal 12 2 Peter Sharma 12 7 Retired Members   No delegate appointed top