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NUGFW finances to get forensic audit

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GUARDIAN MEDIA NEWSROOM
267 days ago
20241101
Newly elected president of the National Union Of Government And Federated Workers (NUGFW), Christoher Streete, during an interview on CNC3’s The Morning Brew, on Friday 1 November 2024.

Newly elected president of the National Union Of Government And Federated Workers (NUGFW), Christoher Streete, during an interview on CNC3’s The Morning Brew, on Friday 1 November 2024.

The new pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Union Of Gov­ern­ment And Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW), Christo­pher Streete, says one of his first acts will be to con­duct a foren­sic au­dit in­to the union's fi­nances.

Streete, who re­placed James Lam­bert ear­li­er this week, says he plans to en­sure more fi­nan­cial ac­count­abil­i­ty than the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion prac­tised.

“We were very con­cerned about the ac­tiv­i­ties of the for­mer pres­i­dent and the for­mer ad­min­is­tra­tion,” the NUGFW pres­i­dent re­vealed.

“He [Lam­bert] con­sid­ered a meet­ing of the na­tion­al ex­ec­u­tive com­mit­tee as old talk. Sev­er­al of us could not tol­er­ate and go along with that kind of ac­tion,” Street said, “and there­fore, we de­cid­ed there was no choice but to con­test and re­move that lead­er­ship.”

Streete says by en­sur­ing trans­paren­cy, peo­ple are more like­ly to have faith in the union.

He says the NUGFW hopes to lead the way in chang­ing long-held neg­a­tive per­cep­tions about unions.

The foren­sic au­dit, he says, is an ex­am­ple of how it in­tends to do so.

“I'm of the view that this ac­tion is one that will cause folks to re­alise that ‘Hey, these peo­ple are se­ri­ous’,” Street not­ed, “and there­fore, they may want to grav­i­tate to­wards join­ing the or­ga­ni­za­tion.”

A guest on to­day’s edi­tion of CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew, Streete says an­oth­er key com­po­nent of his tenure is to en­sure that the union looks af­ter the so­cial, eco­nom­ic and po­lit­i­cal well-be­ing of its mem­bers.

Streete re­placed James Lam­bert as the union's pres­i­dent fol­low­ing a re­cent elec­tion.

Lam­bert had served in the role for 16 years.

The new ex­ec­u­tive was sworn in on Oc­to­ber 30, 2024.


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