{"id":354,"date":"2022-03-28T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/?p=354"},"modified":"2022-03-28T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:40:11","slug":"retirees-2022-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/uncategorized\/retirees-2022-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiree’s 2022 Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Constitution Amendment
\n<\/strong>ARTICLE 6
\n<\/strong>REPRESENTATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Southwest Coastal Area Local, APWU<\/u><\/p>\n

WHEREAS, as the mothers and fathers of the American Postal Workers Union, retired members are a storehouse of knowledge, battle-tested experience, and wisdom to be utilized as a valuable American Postal Workers Union asset, and<\/p>\n

WHEREAS, a majority of American Postal Workers Union Retiree Department members\u00a0paid dues for decades, and<\/p>\n

WHEREAS, calculating some estimated 35,000 Retiree Department members, paying full dues an average of just twenty-five (25) years, equates to close to a million years of full dues-paying members in the American Postal Workers Union history, and<\/p>\n

WHEREAS, currently with five (5) elected national retiree delegates to the American Postal Workers Union National Convention, one in each region, the average representative voting\u00a0strength is 1 for 8,000 members, therefore be it<\/p>\n

Resolved, <\/em>to amend the American Postal Workers Union Constitution & By-Laws Article 6\u00a0\u201cRepresentation\u201d by adding a new Section 6 and changing current Section 6 to Section 7.\u00a0 \u00a0New Section 6 to read: Whenever in Article 6, Section 1. there are references to National Conventions, local, state, or regional affiliates, organizations voting strength\/representation such provisions will\u00a0apply to Chartered Local and State Retiree Chapters with the exception\u00a0that retiree chapters\u2019 voting strength\/representation will be one (1) vote for one-hundred (100) members or fraction thereof. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Retiree Department members who do not\u00a0dwell within the jurisdiction of a Local or State Retiree Chapter shall be afforded the same cited proportionate representation in accordance with Article 6, Section 1. (f).<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hereby certify that I am the President\/Secretary\/Secretary-Treasurer of the above named APWU Retiree Chapter.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Name:\u00a0 ____Bobby Donelson______________________\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Title: ______Chapter President______________________<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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