{"id":11618,"date":"2017-03-01T12:09:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T12:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=11618"},"modified":"2017-03-01T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:02:19","slug":"nominations-unite-gs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=11618","title":{"rendered":"The nominations for Unite GS are\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The largest number of Unite branches ever \u00e2\u20ac\u201c nearly 1,500 have made nominations for three candidates in the election for the union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s general secretary, it was announced today (March 1).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Len McCluskey, the union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s incumbent general secretary, received 1,185 branch nominations, representing 559,000 Unite members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gerard Coyne, Unite West Midlands regional secretary, received 187 branch nominations, representing 98,000 Unite members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ian Allinson, an employee of Fujitsu in Manchester, received 76 branch nominations, representing 37,000 Unite members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Welcome \u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is very welcome that so many Unite branches and members have taken a full part in the nominating process for our elections for general secretary and executive council \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the greatest democratic procedure in the labour movement,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite acting general secretary Gail Cartmail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe very strong level of participation is good for our democracy and I would urge all Unite members to take the chance to vote when ballot papers are distributed later this month.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to branch nominations, Unite members in workplaces not covered by a workplace branch can make nominations. Len McCluskey received 132 such nominations, Gerard Coyne 21 and Ian Allinson 21.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ballot papers for both elections will be distributed from March 27, and the ballot closes on April 19.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest number of Unite branches ever \u00e2\u20ac\u201c nearly 1,500 have made nominations for three candidates in the election for the union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s general secretary, it was announced today (March 1). &nbsp; Len McCluskey, the union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s incumbent general secretary, received 1,185 branch nominations, representing 559,000 Unite members. &nbsp; Gerard Coyne, Unite West Midlands regional secretary, received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[654],"wps_subtitle":"Candidates announced as record numbers nominate","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11621,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions\/11621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}