{"id":5585,"date":"2017-04-06T20:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2017-04-06T20:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T19:30:11","slug":"nec-election-now-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/2017\/04\/06\/nec-election-now-on\/","title":{"rendered":"NEC election now on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5587 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UNISON National Executive Elections are open now. You should receive your ballot paper in the post. If you do not receive it by April 11<sup>th<\/sup> contact the ballot helpline before 25<sup>th<\/sup> April on 0800 0857 857. <strong>The ballot closes 28<sup>th<\/sup> April 5pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Members not on the UNISON central membership system on 3 January 2017 will not be eligible to vote in these elections. Only full members are eligible to vote in this election.<\/p>\n<p>This is the highest body of lay representatives in the union. It is the body which holds the union to account and gives it direction. It also scrutinises the union\u2019s business. This is an important election so <strong>USE YOUR VOTE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our branch has nominated the candidates listed below as we believe these people have shown the most commitment to creating a fighting union and will seek to link disputes rather than leave branches to fight the effects of Austerity politics on their own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Local Government Seats<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Paul Homes \u2013 LG General Seat<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Paul Gilroy \u2013 LG Male Seat<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Andrea Egan \u2013 LG Female Seat<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Jane Doolan \u2013 LG Female Seat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Greater London Seats<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sonya Howard \u2013 GL Female Seat<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Helen Davies \u2013 GL Female Seat<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sean Fox \u2013 GL Male Seat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>National Black Members Seats<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>April Ashley \u2013 Female Seat<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Hugo Pierre \u2013 Male Seat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Disabled Members Seats<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Roger Lewis \u2013 General Seat<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Pam Howard \u2013 Female Seat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Community Seats<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Kieran Grogan \u2013 General Seat<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Janet Bryan \u2013 Female Seat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Young Members Seat<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Josie Runswick \u2013 Young Members Seat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Untitled-2-e1491506859253.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"105\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNISON National Executive Elections are open now. You should receive your ballot paper in the post. If you do not receive it by April 11th contact the ballot helpline before 25th April on 0800 0857 857. The ballot closes 28th April 5pm. Members not on the UNISON central membership system on 3 January 2017 will not be eligible to vote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5589,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions\/5589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}