{"id":265,"date":"2021-07-05T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T11:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/users\/unite\/?p=265"},"modified":"2021-07-05T12:09:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T11:09:27","slug":"general-secretary-elections-manifestos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/users\/unite\/general-secretary-elections-manifestos\/","title":{"rendered":"General Secretary Elections &#8211; Manifestos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since our last update on the General Secretary Elections Howard Beckett, who the Branch voted to endorse, has withdrawn and backed Steve Turner in the election. The branch exec is making no further endorsements but would like to provide members with information on the remaining candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Steve Turner&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steveturner4gs.org\/news\/candidate-statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Candidate Statement<\/a> can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steveturner4gs.org\/news\/candidate-statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steveturner4gs.org\/manifesto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Election Manifesto here<\/a><\/li><li>Sharon Graham&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sharongraham.org\/sharons-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Election Manifesto<\/a> can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/sharongraham.org\/sharons-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/li><li>Gerard Coyne&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/gerardcoyne.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gerard-Coyne-Manifesto-online-version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Election Manifesto<\/a> can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/gerardcoyne.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gerard-Coyne-Manifesto-online-version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find full information for the General Secretary Election on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitetheunion.org\/who-we-are\/structure\/unite-2021-general-secretary-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unite webpages<\/a> and full details of the vote and candidates electoral communications at the GS <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.cesvotes.com\/V3-1-0\/unitegensec21\/en\/home?bbp=-1&amp;x=-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voting papers will be start being dispatched to your home address from today &#8211; 5th July 2021 &#8211; and must be returned to the Independent Scrutineer by Noon Monday 23 August 2021. The branch wishes all candidates well in the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since our last update on the General Secretary Elections Howard Beckett, who the Branch voted to endorse, has withdrawn and backed Steve Turner in the election. The branch exec is making no further endorsements but would like to provide members with information on the remaining candidates. Steve Turner&#8217;s Candidate Statement can be found here and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-union-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/users\/unite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/users\/unite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/users\/unite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/users\/unite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/users\/unite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/users\/unite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/users\/unite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/users\/unite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/users\/unite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/users\/unite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/users\/unite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}