2021 Virtual Retired Members’ Conference

Although we are unable to hold our Retired Members Organisational Group Conference in the normal way, UNISON’s Retired Members Organisational Group Committee has agreed to hold a Virtual Retired Members Organisational Group Conference online on Wednesday 13 October 2021, with Caucus meetings being held virtually on Tuesday 12 October 2021.

Virtual Retired Members Organisational Group Conference may look and feel very different to what we are used to, but the Organisational Group Committee feels that it is important to give our members and activists a platform to discuss the issues the Organisational Group faces and use our democratic processes to shape how UNISON works in the future.

Motions will be debated on a virtual platform. Speakers will need to be identified and nominated in advance – please give some thought to who this may be.

Further information on speakers will be sent to relevant branches when composites have been agreed.

The conference bulletin will have further information on motion submission from the SOC and submission deadlines.

Delegates should be registered as normal through the OCS.

The pandemic continues to place significant pressure on our branches and activists and in these unprecedented circumstances it is understandable that attendance at the Virtual Retired Members Organisational Group Conference may be affected.

After the deadline for branch registration has passed, an assessment will need to be made. If the quorum and/or our rule book obligations on proportionality and fair representation are unlikely to be met, the National Executive Committee, in consultation with the Organisational Group reserves the right to postpone the event until such time we can comply with these obligations.