Yes (amended)
Superseded
Belfast
Clause A; combining of the federal secretary and external relations posts
Further spilt
Hull: abstain
Thames Valley: in favour
Manchester: in favour
Brighton: abstain, no mandate
Belfast: in favour
SLSF: abstain
NLSF: against
Newcastle: in favour
Motion passes
Clause A; temporary rescinding of delegation of IB production
Further spilt
Hull: abstain
Thames Valley: in favour
Manchester: in favour
Brighton: abstain, no mandate
Belfast: in favour
SLSF: abstain, no mandate
NLSF: abstain, no mandate
Newcastle: abstain, no mandate
Motion passes
Clause B; expansion of women’s officer to become equalities officer
Hull: against
Thames Valley: in favour
Manchester: opposed
Brighton: opposed
Belfast: in favour
SLSF: opposed
NLSF: opposed
Newcastle: abstain, no mandate
Motion fails.
Manchester: problem with the last one standing to be elected. We have no accountability or recallability in practice, we would not allow this to be taken out of constitution, but practically this happens forever. Manchester will make a proposal for locals to take on posts and also for this to be mandatory and rotation. We’re against merging all equalities into one post, local are happy to take on some of the work the woman’s officer was doing, like stuff your sexist boss, we are not against interim merging of outreach and international secretary.
Belfast response: we understand the multiple needs of equality officer but we don’t have anyone to fill those posts and we see a need so this is interim until we have large membership for this to be enough people
NLSF: we’re against merging but we suggest that there be two posts, we support Belfast in addressing those things.
Hull: we don’t feel women’s and equalities posts can be merged, it’s accepting members loss rather than addressing this issue
Belfast response: it would be post with multiple responsibilities, it’s a stopgap not admit of defeat, we need to do something about it
Brighton: we’ll be voting on the basis of six months long mandate on very similar motion, no mandate for the discussion, the vote will have to be reviewed by the local
Discussion about the part A:
Newcastle: how rescinding the production of IB relates to the mandate.
Belfast: at the moment production of the IB is not delegated, and you believe it should not be delegated, it should remain within the mandate.
Source: Solidarity Federation UK