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<blockquote data-quote="251" data-source="post: 1263767" data-attributes="member: 49141"><p>No. We are absolutely not teaching members to be behind. There was a serious issue with a dues freeze at that hospital from around 1997 (Don't quote me on the year...but 97 is close). 100% the employers fault, but the union never rectified the problem, or notified the members. This obviously spans numerous administrations, but it never came to a head until the 2013 election, when a vast majority of RIH workers were voting for the first time in many cases. GW from the international's solution was the 6 month rule that no one had heard about till the JC 10 meeting. </p><p></p><p>But you asked for opinions. Here's mine. Should people in arrears be allowed to vote? According to the International Constitution, and the past practice of over a million teamsters nationwide, <strong>Absolutely not. </strong> </p><p></p><p>But that was not the question. The question that drove GW's decision was: </p><p></p><p>Should dues paying members on checkoff that have never missed a payment but are in arrears due to a company's failure to pay the proper amount have their right to vote stripped from them?</p><p></p><p>In GW's opinion, no. Hence the 6 month rule. And from what I understand, neither the UA slate, nor the Membership slate objected to the 6 month rule, as is required in the Constitution. If either side had objected PRIOR to opening the 433 ballots in question, we may have very well had a re-election. But both sides decided to roll the dice. And if it had gone the way of the Membership Slate, I'll bet my life there would have been post election protests from the UA slate. They would have been filed on the exact same principal, and they would have been denied on the exact same principle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="251, post: 1263767, member: 49141"] No. We are absolutely not teaching members to be behind. There was a serious issue with a dues freeze at that hospital from around 1997 (Don't quote me on the year...but 97 is close). 100% the employers fault, but the union never rectified the problem, or notified the members. This obviously spans numerous administrations, but it never came to a head until the 2013 election, when a vast majority of RIH workers were voting for the first time in many cases. GW from the international's solution was the 6 month rule that no one had heard about till the JC 10 meeting. But you asked for opinions. Here's mine. Should people in arrears be allowed to vote? According to the International Constitution, and the past practice of over a million teamsters nationwide, [B]Absolutely not. [/B] But that was not the question. The question that drove GW's decision was: Should dues paying members on checkoff that have never missed a payment but are in arrears due to a company's failure to pay the proper amount have their right to vote stripped from them? In GW's opinion, no. Hence the 6 month rule. And from what I understand, neither the UA slate, nor the Membership slate objected to the 6 month rule, as is required in the Constitution. If either side had objected PRIOR to opening the 433 ballots in question, we may have very well had a re-election. But both sides decided to roll the dice. And if it had gone the way of the Membership Slate, I'll bet my life there would have been post election protests from the UA slate. They would have been filed on the exact same principal, and they would have been denied on the exact same principle. [/QUOTE]
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