A delegation of the newly formed Unite Young Members Committee will be travelling to the United Kingdom – Esher Place on the 18th November 2013 to attend a course of young members.
This course focuses on Unite organising Strategy, Community Activism and the key issues young people face in the workplace and wider community.
The Merchant Navy Welfare Board recently held their Annual General Meeting in the Tower at the Naval Base.
The Board was established in 1948, although its predecessors date back to 1927. Today the Board has around 40 members subscribing to its Constitution. There are 15 Port Welfare Committees in the UK and one in Gibraltar.
In the graveyard of St Andrews Church, Tangiers, lie thirteen graves, twelve of them belonging to airmen killed over the Western Mediterranean in World War 2 and one of them, to Sgt Terence Henning, a member of the Gibraltar Security Police, who was killed in an explosion in February 1942.
In criticism of Health and Safety Minister Joe Bossano’s recent comments at the latest Health and Safety seminar held on Monday 4th November, the GSD has claimed that Minister Bossano ‘simply does not know what he is talking about in matters of H&S’.
The party insists that this follows on from his Parliament track record ‘Parliament which shows little regard for the development of H&S policies.’ At the seminar, Minister Bossano claimed that both public and private employers ‘are not conducting risk assessments with regard to their employees’ working duties’. The GSD explains that this ‘distorts reality, as there are many employers (both public and private) who systematically conduct risk assessments on a continuous basis, either in relation to their own employees or with contracted-out work.’
