1. Conferences Committee to be contacted re Optimum Population Trust representation at next GP conference.
2. Green left AGM would be discussing Academy and trust schools.

1. Relative successes for BNP, UKIP etc could be due to Low turnout of left voters rather than swing to right?
2. Boundary change led to loss of 2 GP councillors in Bedford
3. PCS survey responses favourable to GP

"Conference acknowledges the importance of climate change as an environmental issue and the response of the trade union movement to it. The CWU should therefore support a Green New Deal that encompasses the use of postal and telecommunications services to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The CWU should also use its influence to encourage the use of renewable energy wherever possible.

The NEC is therefore instructed to purse this policy".

This is to be included in blog post supporting of postal strike.

The main TU-related focus of my disability spokesperson duties lately have involved proofreading Green Party EU candidates entries to the PCS Survey of EU candidates. In so doing, I managed to help increase the recorded GPEW EU candidates responses by about forty to fifty per cent.[1]

I also served as key contact in Andrew Wasley from Caroline Lucas' office coordinating GPEW response to Carers' Week. (Carers as family members are not, strictly speaking, trade unionists but do qualify as ´exploited labour´.

[1] Most notably, the original entries to that survey completely eliminated presence of ANY Green candidates in East Midlands region, including trade-unionist Richard Mallender. Making necessary contacts cued by GPEW contacts pages and email helped there, but complete wipe out of Lesley Hedges' response data from the Lesley Hedges page remains a complete mystery to me. (Perhaps a nerdy meddler from BNP took exception to her mentioning that the far-right are homophobic as well as racist?)

1. Stall, (needs booking and personing), Sue Tibbles agreed to take charge.
2. Fringes, one fringe to be booked possibly on low paid workers (liaison with G.Left needed)
3. Motions: Deadline for amendments 15 July list of tabled motions to be circulated. An emergency GPTU meeting could be held to endorse amendments if necessary on 1 July in London.
4. Draft Emergency motion

   "The Green Party

   1. Reiterates its support for campaigns for a living wage for all workers

   2. Supports the prompt statements of protest against the arrest, detention and removal from the UK of SOAS workers on 12/6/2009 made by Jenny Jones AM and Jean Lambert and the support of the Green party for the occupation of SOAS offices in protest against this.

   3. Deplores any attempt to use migration law as a weapon in industrial relations to intimidate workers against organising themselves to secure legitimate rights and decent remuneration for their work.

   4. Will use all influence that it can to work with the labour movement to oppose all such intimidation and to campaign for the reinstatement of and redress to all those removed, deported, dismissed and/or otherwise punished for attempting to exercise their legitimate rights."