Urgent: Re: Unite NEC elections: 'Reclaiming
Unite for the members’.
If your Unite
branch meets between before the 13th July and you are in either the 'General
Industries' or 'Food Drink & Tobacco' sectors.................
Please nominate
David Beaumont and Mr B. Gill [commonly know as Raj].
Details of both Grass Roots left candidates
below.
David
Beaumont. [Email address
david@grassrootsleft.org ] Seeking your Branch Nomination
for the coming NEC election Servicing and General Industries seat.
Membership
number 30163927 Branch Hounslow and Feltham LE/1404m
I have
been a member of Unite and its predecessors for 30 years. I am an
ex-member of the Labour party; I have never been a member of any other political
organisation. I am a founding member of 'Grass Roots Left', a broad Left
organisation in Unite that wants to return the union to the members, out of the
clutches of the few well paid bureaucrats who run it like their family
business.
We are the
only Left alternative to the small 'broad Left' private club named 'United
Left', which conducts business from the top down and is, to all intents and
purposes, simply a general secretary supporters club.
If
elected I will fight from the inside to make the union more democratic and
accountable, and supportive of workers in struggle. In particular I will
oppose the closing down of branches, and instead demand more branch democracy
and grant branches more control of our union, not less. The real key to reclaiming
our union is the election of officers rather than appointment by the
bureaucrats, only Grass Roots Left supports that.
A
democratic, bottom up instead of top down union is needed to stand up to the
Con Dem government and oppose austerity for the poor and wealth for the tax
dodging rich.
I am
branch secretary of Hounslow and Feltham branch and have been for about 15
years. My previous lay posts in the union include treasurer of London region.
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Mr B. Gill [commonly know
by my nick name as Raj]. Seeking
your Nomination for the coming NEC election ‘Food Drink and Tobacco seat’
Membership 15437016 / 1393 Hotel Workers Branch
I have been an active trade unionist for more than 30 years
continuously, since my early 20’s. My earlier years were spent working for Ford
Motor Co for 12 years where I was a member of TGWU 1/1231 Branch during which
time I was elected as a Senior shop-steward and H&S Rep.
I was made redundant from the motor industry as were 10,000’s
others and I took a job in the Security Industry for G4S where I worked for 21
years. This sector was unregulated, with long hours and low pay and became a
union rep and Branch Secretary and help improve TC's. After I was victimized
there I had to leave the Industry.
I have accompanied members at hearings in
B&Q, IKEA, TESCO, ASDA, and gave representation to
workers at food preparation and packing company called Bakkavor as
well as advising catering staff at Harrods and Restaurant Associates and Pizza
Express etc
Currently I dedicate my time to helping low paid workers in
Hospitality sector that included brand name companies such as Guoman, Thistle, Hilton and other
Hotel Chains.
I support public sector workers fighting to retain their pension’s
provision and am involved in a campaign to stop the merger of NW Hospital
Trusts and in defence our NHS. I believe Bankers who abuse the system should be
punished and sent to jail.
I believe we have a duty to protect the old and Disabled workers,
and all Remploy factories kept open and no cuts to DLA benefits.
In order to fight austerity we need a united front, between
private, public and all our communities.
If I am successful in achieving the required number of nominations
I shall be standing as a Grass Roots Left candidate and will fight for:
· Members in the food
drink and Tobacco industry and all other Unite members
· Retention and
reinvestment of jobs in our industry and fighting to ensure no jobs
are exported overseas.
· Unite Officers
to be elected by the members, not appointed.
· Confronting anti-union and other unjust laws both UK
and EU.
· A fighting union not just campaigning, for
jobs, terms and conditions and also at a political level for the working class.
- Public ownership and keeping public
services.
- A General Secretary and other National Officers wages
are pegged closer to that of members average earnings and not
company Directors pay rates.
UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL!
I ask for your nomination.
Nothing personal, but, [yet another] a six figure salary and no election of all the TUC union members is crap: 
