We don't feel the legislation is perfect, but we felt something was better than nothing. People are definitely feeling satisfied with the coverage and better off than they were before.
"Ann Black" OBE is a member of the British Labour Party (UK)/Labour Party's National Executive Committee (NEC), who was Chair of the Labour Party from September 2009 to September 2010, and is part of the Grassroots Alliance group of NEC members.
As a constituency representative elected directly by individual members of the Labour Party, Ann Black reports back after every meeting of the NEC and the National Policy Forum by email.
She is from the soft left Labour Party pressure group Labour Reform and is a regular contributor to journals such as Chartist (magazine)/Chartist and more occasionally Socialist Campaign Group News. She is also a member of the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform.
On 4 August 2006 she was re-elected to the National Executive Committee, as the highest polling candidate. She was first elected to the NEC in 2000 and also came top in the previous ballot in 2004.
In 2009 she was part of the three-strong disciplinary panel of senior NEC members, with Cath Speight and Sir Jeremy Beecham, for MPs referred for consideration over the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal/parliamentary expenses scandal.
Previously she had held a number of positions in the Labour Party and also in her trade union, UNISON, since joining the ASTMS union (now part of Unite the Union/Unite) in 1979 and Labour in 1982.
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