Report - Fire Brigades Union
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SECTION G — INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION<br />
G22 <strong>Union</strong> trustees<br />
The executive council wishes to place on record its appreciation<br />
to Bro Stan Fitzsimmons and Bro Mick Harper, both former<br />
presidents of the union, for continuing to serve as trustees of<br />
the union in accordance with the provision of the rule book.<br />
G23 National women’s<br />
committee annual report<br />
2010<br />
1. The national women’s committee<br />
National representatives:<br />
EC Member<br />
National women’s<br />
committee chair<br />
National women’s<br />
committee secretary<br />
National women’s<br />
committee vice-chair<br />
Regional representatives:<br />
Region 1<br />
Region 2<br />
Region 3<br />
Region 5<br />
Region 6<br />
Region 7<br />
Region 8<br />
Region 9<br />
Region 10<br />
Region 11<br />
Region 12<br />
Region 13<br />
Vicky Knight until September/<br />
Denise Christie (from November)<br />
Dona Feltham<br />
Kerry Baigent<br />
Denise Christie until November<br />
Denise Christie<br />
Lynda Rowan-O’Neil<br />
Samantha Rye<br />
Helen Tooley from September<br />
Helen Tooley until August/<br />
Clare Hudson from September<br />
Helen Harrison<br />
Joanne Byrne<br />
Emma Davis<br />
Sally Harper<br />
Jenny Impey<br />
No Rep<br />
Diane Critchlow<br />
2. National women’s committee meetings<br />
The national women’s committee met on the following<br />
occasions this year:<br />
25 February NWC full business meeting<br />
Wortley Hall<br />
30 April NWC annual conference<br />
delegation meeting<br />
Birmingham<br />
25 June NWC full business meeting<br />
Wortley Hall<br />
30 Sept NWC full business meeting<br />
Wortley Hall<br />
3. Committees that the NWC was represented at in 2010<br />
FBU executive council subcommittees<br />
EC international subcommittee<br />
National education committee<br />
FBU committees<br />
National fairness at work committee<br />
National fairness at work<br />
strategy group<br />
National education committee<br />
Regional education officers’ committee<br />
National health and safety committee<br />
Campaign coordinators<br />
IRMP coordinators<br />
Control care campaign<br />
Final appeals committee<br />
FF fatalities campaign<br />
<strong>Fire</strong>fighter representative<br />
TUC committees:<br />
TUC women’s committee<br />
TUC gold badge panel<br />
Wales TUC women’s committee<br />
Scottish TUC women’s committee<br />
Northern TUC<br />
Other committees:<br />
Charter for Women<br />
CLG workplace facilities sub-group<br />
CLG exit interviews sub-group<br />
Equality and diversity stakeholder group<br />
Vicky Knight<br />
(until September)<br />
Vicky Knight<br />
(until September)<br />
Kerry Baigent<br />
Kerry Baigent<br />
Kerry Baigent<br />
Kerry Baigent<br />
Sally Harper<br />
Kerry Baigent<br />
Kerry Baigent<br />
Kerry Baigent<br />
Kerry Baigent<br />
Kerry Baigent<br />
Sam Rye<br />
Vicky Knight<br />
(until September)<br />
Vicky Knight<br />
Jo Byrne<br />
Denise Christie<br />
Sam Rye<br />
Kerry Baigent<br />
Vicky Knight<br />
(until September)<br />
Vicky Knight<br />
(until September)<br />
Vicky Knight<br />
(until September)<br />
4. TUC women’s conference and STUC women’s<br />
conference<br />
TUC women’s conference<br />
On 10-12 March the TUC held its 80th annual women’s<br />
conference in the Winter Gardens, Eastbourne, where 253<br />
delegates debated a wide and varied trade union agenda for<br />
working women, representing almost 52% of the TUC’s<br />
membership.<br />
That week was particularly important to trade union and labour<br />
movement women, not only for marking 80 years of<br />
organisation under the umbrella of the TUC on gender issues<br />
and campaigning for women’s rights, but also for marking the<br />
100 year anniversary of International Women’s Day (IWD).<br />
IWD is a day of recognition and celebration of the political,<br />
social, and economic achievements of women, and the<br />
continuous campaign for women’s rights. Whilst at women’s<br />
conference, we looked back over history and recognised<br />
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