ADM 2016 Your union, your votes, your say One of the few union’s to have an annual delegate meeting, activists took the chance to put democracy into action in April... M ore than 1,200 activists descended on Blackpool for four days in April for the union’s biggest event – the Annual Delegate Meeting – to decide Usdaw’s policies for the next 12 months. Everything from pay to premium payments, holidays to health and safety, and housing to health was debated. Delegates also agreed to support a Remain vote for the forthcoming EU Referendum. It was a packed agenda with president Jeff Broome in the chair, general secretary John Hannett and deputy general secretary Paddy Lillis replying to the debates on behalf of the executive council, and executive councillor Barbara Wilson responsible for the smooth running of the conference as chair of standing orders. Delegates also gave a warm welcome to guest speakers Labour leader Jeremy 28 arena Corbyn, Alan Johnson MP, chair of Labour In For Britain campaign and Zoey Purdey a representative from MENCAP – Usdaw’s adopted charity for its 125 th anniversary year. Tax avoidance Well-known multi-national companies both here and abroad should be forced to pay their taxes in the countries they do business in and the monies used to help fund health care provision, Ray Taylor (Sainsbury’s Northern F174) told conference. Google, Amazon, Apple, HSBC and others were all named as having ool rdens, Blackp The Winter Ga ADM, 2016 venue for the