The Greater London Co-ordinating Committee website

The Greater London Co-ordinating Committee (GLCoord) consists of the three union branches of the Communications and Digital (C&D) Sector in Prospect which serve members in the Greater London area. We represent members working in companies who do not have recognition agreements with Prospect as well as members actively seeking work even if not currently employed.  You can join Prospect on line via thier website. If you wish to find out more you can contact any Branch Principal Officer via thier email address.

Benefits of being Registered -- Across this whole website some articles are only available to registered users, if you are member of the union register if not apply to join and then register - you know it makes sense.

Meeting Dates 2020

The Greater London Coordinating Committee (GLCoord) consists of the three London CMD BECTU sector branches of Prospect who in normal circumstances meet at 4pm in the upstairs room of the Artillery Arms in Bunhill row, near Old Street in London usually on the 2nd Tuesday of most months. All members are welcome. However, circumstances are not normal and because of the current restrictions we are holding meetings on line via Zoom. Details of how to join the zoom call are available to members on the registered user page....here. You will need to have an account and logged in to the site to access that information.  You can apply for an account here and your membership will be verified (unfortunately manually) and you will be added as soon as that is done.

Our meetings in 2020 are on the 2nd Tuesday of the month (Normally)

Notes of all meetings and much other useful information is available to members who log in to the site. If you are a member you can register for an account. In doing so please ensure that you provide sufficient information (especially your membership number) for me to identify you as a member.

Philip Williams

Chair Greater London Central Branch

** COVID-19 **

HMG's wish to avoid unnecessary social interaction during the progress of this virus has led your branches to cancel the planned physical branch meetings until further notice. We will instead be holding meetings over Zoom meetings. The September meeting was held as both as a physical meeting in the Artillery Arms with a few attendees and as with more members over Zoom. We shall continue to do that for the foreseeable future. Details on how to connect to the Zoom call are available to registered users after logging in.  Meeting dates are... here.

 

If needed your branch officers (and Prospect Head Office) are still contactable of course. We will be updating this site with any relevant news. We wish all our members good health, and a swift and full recovery should they suffer the virus.

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Welcome to our website

This website contains information about the activities of the Prospect Branches that constitute the Greater London Co-ordinating Committee. You are welcome to contribute by adding comments to the any of the articles. You can do that by clicking on the "Add a comment here" text at the bottom of each article.

The site is intended for members of the GLCoord branches and members can register by filling in the form that will appear if you click on "Create an account" in the box on the left.

NB: You will be asked to create a password and you will need to create one that contains upper and lower case letters and numbers. If your password is too weak the system will not create an account for you.

When you have created an account you will receive an email to confirm your registration. Please register in your correct name. I will remove users whom I cannot verify as union members. I will also remove any offensive or inappropriate comments and any user making such comments. You can join the union on line at the main Prospect website.

The three branches and their Principal Oficers are:

Greater London Central - GLOC (V352)

Branch Chair: Philip Williams — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Branch Secretary: Julian Stubbs — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Greater London East & Essex - GLEE (V350)

Branch Chair: Roy Foord — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Branch Secretary: Tony Cox — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Greater London West - GLOW (V351)

Branch Chair: Dave Folly — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Branch Secretary: Rod Dowler — This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Transfer of members between Prospect branches

Recently we have discovered there is a glitch in the online membership status process in Prospect. When members of our branches update their work status on-line (e.g. from working for an employer to working as a contractor or self-employed) Prospect automatically changes their branch to a Regional Branch outside our sector, even when the member hasn’t changed their work type or address (and sometimes may still be serving the same employer, in a different status), and has no desire or need to change branches. Where we notice this we try to correct it; however if you change or have changed work status on-line and receive or have received a new branch membership card and don’t want to change branch please contact your branch secretary (listed above on this site) so we can get the situation remedied.

Staying in a CMD branch means you are in our sector of the union. This gives you information and analysis about the IT and telecoms industry and a copy of the sector journal. We also brief members on pension issues, plus employer schemes, such as BT, Telefonica, Inmarsat and other companies where we have members

Please note that if you change employer details on-line to a company that has a recognition agreement with Prospect you will be transferred to a branch which deals specifically with that employer.

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