{"id":5939,"date":"2015-09-27T16:07:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2015-09-27T16:07:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:07:20","slug":"engaging-the-energy-of-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=5939","title":{"rendered":"Engaging the energy of all"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>In Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first contribution to this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Labour conference, Unite EC and Labour National Policy Forum member, Maggie Ryan, said at this time of re-building the party it was \u00e2\u20ac\u015babsolutely vital\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 for the party to open \u00e2\u20ac\u015bup that space for discussion in our National Policy Forum and other structures.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI know that we have a leadership that is committed to doing that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe need democratic and representative structures that ensure those who have been members for many years, our tens of thousands of new members, our trade union members, our socialist society members are all engaged.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Inclusivity was key. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bAs a woman who is a trade union activist and working in manufacturing I know the challenges involved, but how rewarding and beneficial it is when we open up our structures, and especially our women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s structures as wide as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe challenge is for us is to ensure that the energy of all those young people who were mobilised over the summer feed into our democratic structures and they are as representative as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bNow that we have our new leader I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking forward to working with them to achieve these aims in the future,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 concluded Maggie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first contribution to this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Labour conference, Unite EC and Labour National Policy Forum member, Maggie Ryan, said at this time of re-building the party it was \u00e2\u20ac\u015babsolutely vital\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 for the party to open \u00e2\u20ac\u015bup that space for discussion in our National Policy Forum and other structures.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 &nbsp; She said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[399],"wps_subtitle":"Inclusivity key to Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939"}],"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=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5940,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions\/5940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}