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One
of the most important roles of our top 3 officers (President, Vice President and
Secretary/Treasurer) is to pay attention to details. This is true for
investigating and working with contracts. Along with paying attention to details
it is just as important to convey accurate information to our members,
International, community, public, media, government, employers and Department of
Labor. If you are not able to do this as one of the top 3 officers in our local
union then you should not be in that position.
Today I received our union newspaper and the entire front
page talks about ATU757 Official Notice of Nominations and Election (so the
notice in February and March were not official?). The first thing that caught my
attention is this statement “Nominations for all elected Union positions will be
held at the Regular Charter meeting, Monday, May 11, 2015. Please
note: In accordance with Section 13 of the bylaws the meeting will begin at
3pm.” So I want to point out the detail here. It is stated that nominations will
take place at the Regular Charter meeting. When is our “Regular”
Charter meeting? The answer is the second Monday of the month at 6:30pm. That is
the “Regular” Charter meeting.
The article continues to state that “In
accordance with Section 13 of the bylaws the meeting will begin at 3pm”. Here is
the actual wording: “Nominations shall be held at the first
regular Union meeting in May every three (3) years. They shall be held at the
3:00pm Charter meeting as set forth by the Financial Secretary-Treasurer.”
To be
in accordance with Section 13 there must be a Regular Charter meeting at 3pm and
there is not anymore because our Charter meeting day and time had been changed !
The top 3 Officers failed or didn’t care to correct the bylaw to reflect
that. Now that election time is here they are having to violate the bylaw
because of their own actions. Our bylaw is very clear by saying “They shall be
held at THE 3:00pm CHARTER MEETING”.
This
is just an example of how important it is to have Officers that can pay
attention to detail and be able to act correctly with the right information
rather than producing whatever comes up in their mind. To continue to perform in
such a manner will continue to harm our membership and our union.
1 comment:
Bruce is the one that edits and approves everything that goes into the labor press.
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