Committee 2020/21
Chair: Matthew Hull
Secretary: Sue
Tibbles and Peter Murry
Treasurer: Sue
Tibbles
Membership Secretary: Noel
Lynch
Equalities Officer: Beccy
Sawbridge
Media Officer:
Martin Francis
Committee Members: Paul
Valentine, Kefentse Dennis, Steve Williams
CONSTITUTION
AND AIMS
AIMS
The Green
Party Trade Union Group (GPTU) is part of the Green Party of England and Wales.
We are Green Party members who are Trade Union members and supporters working
to bring the Green Party and the Trade Union movement closer together. The
Green Party is a party of social and environmental justice. We are campaigning
for an alternative to austerity, inequality and neoliberal economics, for the
sake of both people and planet. So the Green Party wants to invest in our
future and create decent jobs. We want a public NHS, renationalised railways
and public services which are owned by the public. We are campaigning for a
compulsory Living Wage, and a maximum pay ratio between the lowest and the
highest paid in any organisation. To achieve all this, the Green Party believes
we need to set Trade Unions free. Green policies, which are decided
democratically by members, would strengthen the right to recognition and
collective bargaining, and would guarantee the right to strike without fear of
dismissal. We can’t put it better than Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP, who
said: “We stand for fair pay, workplace rights, and against unfair and
unnecessary cuts. Your fight is our fight.”
CONSTITUTION
1. Green Party
Trade Union Group , is a group open to members of the Green Party of England
& Wales , (hereinafter GPEW), who share its aims , principles and interests
2 Membership
Membership of the Green Party Trade Union Group shall be open to any current
members of GPEW. who share the aims and objectives of Green Party Trade Union
Group. The usual method of joining will be by application to the Green
Party Trade Union Group Committee.
3 Committee
The Green Party Trade Union Group Committee shall comprise Co-Chairs,
Secretary, Membership Secretary, Treasurer, Media Officer, Equal Opportunities
Officer. Other committee posts may be created and GPEW members may be co-opted
as committee members by the committee as necessary subject to ratification by a
meeting of Green Party Trade Union Group
All Committee posts
may be job shares.
The Committee shall
normally be elected at the agm.
4 Meetings
The Annual General Meeting (Agm) Of Green Party Trade Union Group shall
normally take place annually and be open to all Green Party Trade Union Group’
members
Ordinary Meetings
of Green Party Trade Union Group shall take place as decided by the
Committee and be open to all Green Party Trade Union Group members
Extra Ordinary
General Meetings can be called by petition of 25% of Green Party Trade Union
Group members or 10 Green Party Trade Union Group members (whichever is the
larger), or by a majority decision of the Green Party Trade Union Group
Committee . Egms can consider and enact motions to re-elect the Committee.
Committee meetings shall take place if necessary, between other meetings;
usually they shall be open to all Green Party Trade Union Group members.
Where possible an
Ordinary meeting of Green Party Trade Union Group shall be held at GPEW
National Conference, this may be additional to the normal schedule of Ordinary
meetings of Green Party Trade Union Group .
5 DECISIONS
Decisions at Green Party Trade Union Group meetings shall be by
majority vote where necessary. Contentious or tied issues may be decided by a
poll of all Green Party Trade Union Group members
Committee members may take decisions or communicate on behalf of Green Party
Trade Union Group between Ordinary meetings of Green Party Trade
Union Group on matters that arise during these times, their
decisions and communications shall be subject to ratification by a meeting of
Green Party Trade Union Group .
6 FUNDS
Green Party Trade Union Group may raise funds on its own behalf or for GPEW for
campaigns and other activities in line with Green Party Trade Union
Group aims.
Green Party Trade Union Group may open a bank account to keep its funds
which shall be spent in pursuance of its aims.
8 LOCAL GROUPINGS
Green Party Trade Union Group shall encourage the formation of local Green
Party Trade Union Group groups
9 The Green Party
Trade Union Group constitution may be changed at an AGM or an EGM.
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