What
is the NEC?
The
union’s national executive council (NEC) is elected by members to speak on
their behalf.
NEC members are elected by all members of UNISON via a
postal vote. Members elect candidates to represent their region and their
service group. There are also additional seats for Black members and young
members.
As with all other UNISON elections, the union’s principles
of “proportionality and fair representation” means that some seats are reserved
for women and low-paid members, so that the make-up of the NEC fairly
represents the wider union.
Elections take place every two years, with members
receiving a ballot paper with a prepaid envelope to return it to an independent
scrutineer (an independent person who checks the ballot is fair and counts the
votes).
Results are usually announced around one month after the
voting deadline.
When
do the Elections start?
The nomination period opened on Monday 9 January 2017 and will close at 5pm on Friday 10 February
2017.
For more information, contact the member liaison unit at
the UNISON Centre. Telephone 020 7121 5399, email elections@unison.co.uk
Full details of who are the current NEC members can be
found on the UNISON website here
"Over the next few weeks I am going to provide comment on
some of the NEC candidates and who I would like to see take an active role on
the NEC.
For me the time of the talkers is over. UNISON members are being sacked and or privatised on an industrial scale. Every day that goes by when we don't mobile nationally is a day wasted and another job lost.
I am interested in those activists who are genuinely grassroots and have actually a current history of organising a fightback within their members.
Whatever happens make sure you vote.
Solidarity
John
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