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Annual report 2005 Annual Report Index Secretary Service Conditions Health & Safety Equalities Communications Education Lifelong Learning International Labour Link Membership Minutes of Branch Meetings			Membership and Attendances REPORT 2005 As recruitment officer for City of Edinburgh Branch, I have been fortunate to have had excellent support from Mary Scott, UNISON Development Officer. Mary and I had our first Recruitment Day in October 2004 at Chesser House and we followed this up with visits to around 20 Edinburgh Leisure facilities in March 2005. Two visits to Wellington Court in December 2004 and March 2005, and a further Recruitment campaign at Chesser House in April 2005. In June 2005 we targeted around 30 primary schools, leaving information packs. City Development were the next department to get lucky and in August 2005 we visited Kings Stables Road and 1 Cockburn Street, then 329 High Street in October 2005. I have also attended team meetings for Housing Department and Induction Courses for Finance Department. When this Government announced the proposed changes to our Pension Scheme recruitment increased, and it is important for me and all stewards to impress upon staff that if we all pull together and stay united we can make a difference and not have our pensions eroded. As you will be aware, Single status and Job Evaluation are in the process of being implemented and we need to maintain a strong membership to ensure elected members are given a clear message Unison members are prepared to stand up for their rights. Not only is it important to recruit members, but I try to encourage existing members to become shop stewards. This is an area Mary and I are looking to improve upon in the coming year. I hope the visits to different departments show we are active and that members have an opportunity to ask questions and voice any concerns they may have. Irene Heggie Recruitment/Membership Services Officer Membership Figures at 31 December 2005 DEPARTMENT 31/12/04 31/12/05 Var Associated Bodies 248 243 -5 Children & Families (was Education) 1,554 2,179 +625 City Development 615 557 -58 Corporate Services 512 494 -18 Culture & Leisure 396 402 +6 Edinburgh Leisure 247 235 -12 Env & Consumer 335 287 -48 Finance 323 382 +59 Further Education 353 374 +21 Health & Social Care (was Social Work) 2,846 2216 -570 Housing 596 651 +55 Valuation Joint Board 115 90 -25 Voluntary Sector 775 810 +35 Unallocated 12 1 -11 TOTAL 8,927 8,921 -6 Student 7 6 -1 Unemployed 24 40 +16 Retired Members 774 802 +28 *Please note comparisons from last years figures are influenced by departmental re-organisations and the centralisation of Personnel and Finance functions. Recruited 1/1/05 - 31/12/05 = 1,114 Officially Resigned = 83 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. Obviously the creation of Children & Families and Health & Social Care and the new HR and Finance arrangements have skewed the figures this year. In addition, there is conditions 'drift', ie manual posts becoming APT&C. 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 2004 figures 1. Women Branch Branch Ctte Officers Stewards 67% (67%) 45% (44%) 40% (38%) 41% (92%) 2. Branch Committee breakdown Women, Manual & Craft and APT&C (and CO) Breakdown at 31/12/05 a) Women on dept.delegations Department  Should be Actual Associated Bodies 56% (49%) 0% (0%) Children & Families 80% (81%) 69% (40%) City Development 25% (25%) 0% (29%) Corporate Services 75% (73%) 0% (100%) Culture & Leisure 55% (56%) 60% (50%) Edinburgh Leisure 47% (46%) 0% (0%) Env & Consumer 31% (29%) 33% (0%) Finance  63% (66%) 20% (25%) Further Education 60% (63%) 0% (0%) Health & Social Care  81% (80%) 67% (69%) Housing 49% (49%) 20% (0%) Valuation Joint Board 51% (48%) 50% (50%) Voluntary Sector 74% (74%) 0% (50%) b) Manual/Craft on dept. delegations Department Should be Actual Associated Bodies 22% (18%) 0% (0%) Children & Families 4% (3%) 0% (0%) City Development 19% (18%) 14% (14%) Corporate Services 49% (49%) 0% (50%) Culture & Leisure 19% (18%) 29% (25%) Edinburgh Leisure 23% (19%) 0% (0%) Env & Consumer 25% (33%) 0% (50%) Finance 0% (0%)   0% (0%) Further Education 30% (34%) 0% (0%) Health & Social Care 34% (25%) 11% (6%) Housing 2% (5%) 0% (0%) Valuation Joint Board 0% (0%) 0% (0%) Voluntary Sector 4% (5%) 0% (0%) c) Manual & Craft breakdown % of Branch Membership = 18% (17%) % of Branch Committee = 4% (10%) d) Women on Manual/Craft delegate % of Women in M&C membership = 66% (63%) % of Women among M&C delegates to Branch Committee = 50% (20%) e) APT&C (and CO) breakdown % of Branch Membership = 81% (67%) % of Branch Committee = 96% (90%) f) Women on APT&C delegations % of Women in APT&C membership = 68% (68%) % of Women among APT&C delegates to Branch Committee = 45% (44%) Conditions breakdowns show the percentages where conditions are known. There are a large number of members, especially in Associated and other bodies where the conditions category is not clear. There are members where gender is not recorded. Stewards breakdown by conditions not available. Machinery not yet in place to identify shift workers, disabled, lesbian or gay, or black members. Part time and job share figures are unreliable.   ATTENDANCES Branch Committee Attendances 2005   Possible Actual Branch Officers     Joe Galletta 10 0 Barbara Foubister 10 7 Matthew Creighton 10 6 Lyn Williams 10 5 John Stevenson 10 7 Agnes Petkevicius 10 8 Mike McCrossan 10 0 John Mulgrew 10 6 George Lee 10 5 John Ross 10 9 Walter Weir 10 7 Elaine Wishart 10 8 Alan Brown 10 5 Kevin Duguid 10 9 Tom McLeod 10 6 Irene Heggie 10 8 Irene Stout 10 6 Ken Scott 10 1 Gillian Allen/ Mike Smith 10 1 Dot Paterson 10 4 Associated Bodies (3) No delegates appointed Chief Officers (1) No delegates appointed Children & Families (11)   Mike Pegg 10 7 David Henderson/ Andrew Cochrane 10 0 Di Hall 10 0 Evelyn Hanlon 10 6 Pauline Crombie 10 4 Ann Milligan 10 2 Carol Griffin 10 6 Beverley Holland 10 6 Ann Goswell 10 2 Denise Martin-Lawrie 10 0 City Development (4)     Frank Donoghue 10 4 Paul Clarke 10 7 Corporate Services (4)     No delegates appointed     Culture & Leisure (3)     Andrew Craig 10 1 Michael Durnan 10 4 Anne Scott/ Amanda Kerr 10 1 Edinburgh Leisure (3) No delegates appointed   Env & Cons (3)     Luke Henderson 10 3 Margaret Blyth 10 0 Robert Gay 10 5 Finance (3)     Craig Wilson 10 6 Steve McDonald 10 7 Further Education (3) No delegates appointed Health & Social Care (11)   Catriona Grant 10 4 Vikki Kerr 10 3 Kirsten Hey 10 6 Mo Innes 10 0 Gerry Corbett 10 5 Ian McAdam 10 0 Roase Jackson 10 8 Housing (4)     Alison Gowrie 10 3 Duncan Smith 10 9 Stewart Dickson 10 2 Valuation Joint Board (2) No delegates appointed Voluntary Sector (5) No delegates appointed Self Organised Groups       Shiv Lal (BM) 10 2 Renna Lal 10 1 Peter Sharma (BM) 10 2 Retired Members   No delegate appointed top