CWU’s Annual Conference

Conference takes place for six days each year in either April or May and is the parliament of our Union.

2020: 19th -24th April, BIC, Bournemouth

Two of the six days are spent discussing issues that are appropriate to the whole Union. One day of Equality and then Conference is divided into sectional and industrial groupings for the remaining three days.

All CWU members are entitled to attend Conference. If you wish to be a delegate or an observer, you must make an application through your branch.

Members of the union who wish to be an observer can also gain admission to the observers area by showing their membership card.    Non member visitors should make a request for a visitors’ pass in writing and indicate the capacity in which they would be making the application.

The conferences are motion based. The closing date for motions is usually February for General Conference, and February/March for Industrial Conferences each year. Around 700 delegates representing almost 200,000 members attend the conference.

Press and media enquiries should be directed to pressofficer@cwu.org

Conference also attracts a small army of exhibitors. These include:

• Labour Party
• Unionline
• CWU Affinity Partners, including UIA, UIB and BHSF.

The physical organisation of Conference is the responsibility of the senior deputy general secretary. For further information contact Chris Tapper: ctapper@cwu.org or 0208 9717 331.

The constitutional organisation of Conference, including the Agenda, Documentation and Standing Orders is dealt with by various Standing Orders Committees.

We produce a Conference Guide that will be distributed to all delegates and visitors attending the CWU Annual Conference. If you have organised an event that is to be held at conference please let us have full details for inclusion in the guide. Branches and regions are invited to place fraternal greetings adverts in the guide.

Any enquiries concerning Conference should be directed in the first instance to Chris Tapper on 0208 971 7331 or ctapper@cwu.org

2018 Documentation:

Rule Book 2018