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COMMUNICATIONSWORKERS OF AMERICALOCAL 7011RULES THE FOLLOWING ARE THE RULES OF CWA LOCAL 7011. THE ORIGINAL RULES WERE ADOPTED BY A MAJORITY VOTE OF THE MEMBERS PRESENT AT A MEMBERSHIP MEETING HELD ON JANUARY 10, 1989. A Replacement of the Rules was voted on at the November 13, 2001 membership meeting District 7, AFL-CIOFebruary 2006A Replacement of the Rules was voted on at the November 13, 2001 membership meeting ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨
GENERAL A. New rules may be adopted or the present rules may be changed by a majority of the members present at a membership meeting provided the proposed new rule was introduced at a previous membership meeting. B. All motions and Executive Board recommendations presented at the membership meeting that would result in a financial outlay from the Local treasury not already approved in the budget shall automatically be deferred to the next scheduled regular membership for a vote. All motions shall be referred to the Local Executive Board for study and recommendation. In the event an expenditure arises that requires immediate attention, the Executive Board shall have the authority to approve such expenditure. B. FINANCIAL POLICY A. LOCAL FINANCIAL RECORDS: Local financial records of expenditures shall be maintained in the local files. All expenditures that have been paid shall be separated and filed on a monthly basis. Financial records shall include monthly expenditures, journal/ ledgers; check book stubs, bank statements and copies of local monthly financial report. These records shall be maintained for a period of not less than seven (7) years. All Financial Records must be maintained and remain at the Local except when taken for a formal audit by an E-Board approved CPA. B.AUTHORIZED EXPENDITURES: Authorized expenditures are those, which are reflected, in specific line items of the Local Budget, this Policy, or those other expenditures, which have been approved, in advance, by the membership of the Local. All transactions shall be made by check. All checks shall bear the signature of the President and the Secretary-Treasurer of the Local. The Secretary- Treasurer shall prepare for the President’s approval and signature, checks that are to be drawn on the Local Treasury. All expenditures must be authorized and submitted on the appropriate voucher. C.ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURES: Administrative expenditures are those such as but not limited to rent, telephone, supplies, taxes, affiliation dues and which are normal and customary to the operation of the Local Union. 1. Bereavement: a. Bibles: (All sectors excluding Broadcast) Members shall be entitled to a gift of 2 bibles from the local in the event of a death in their immediate family. Immediate family includes: Parents, grandparents, spouse, or significant other, siblings, children, grandchildren, mother- in-law and father-in-law. 2. Pagers: Pagers will be supplied to any Officer that needs one. The Local will pay no more than $15.00 per month for each pager. 3. Cell Phones: Cell phones will be supplied to each Officer that needs one. The Local will pay no more than $60.00 per month for each cell phone except for the President’s cell phone that will not exceed more than $120.00 per month. The Local will pay the monthly plan and local calls. The Officer incurring the charge must pay for any other charges. This includes but is not limited to Long Distance, Roaming and Directory Assistance. A one-time set up fee, phone charge and activation fee will be paid for by the Local. 4. Retiree Expenditures: Each member who retires from a Company represented by this Local will be entitled to have their 1st years dues paid for membership to the Official Local 7011 Retiree Club along with a metal lifetime membership card. 5. Strike Fund: The amount of $800.00 per month will be deposited into an interest bearing account or CD designated as the “strike fund”. D. PERSONAL EXPENDITURES: Local representatives who have incurred personal expenses for purchasing authorized Union expenditures shall be reimbursed such expenses. These expenditures must be properly submitted on a Local Expense Voucher (H-100) with the proper receipts attached to support the expenditures. E. OUT OF TOWN EXPENSES: When Local representatives are authorized to attend conventions, conferences, and meetings, only the following expenses shall be authorized to be paid: 1. Lost Wages: The representatives’ actual lost wages based on the representatives’ work schedule. 2. Lodging: The Representatives’ actual expense (receipt required) incurred for hotel accommodations. 3. Transportation: The representative shall receive either a personal car allowance in the amount currently allowed by the Internal Revenue Service/IRS per mile or reimbursed actual expense (receipt required) for commercial travel. 4. Per Diem: Local representatives shall receive $40.00 for meals and miscellaneous for each 24- hour period. F. RESPONSIBILITY FOR TRAVEl ARRANGEMENTS: A travel Committee established by the President shall be responsible for making all arrangements for all Representatives authorized to attend conventions, conferences and meetings. These arrangements shall include hotel or motel accommodations, the mode of transportation to be used, taking into account the reasonableness of accommodations; length of time the representative will be away from home, the distance to be traveled and economy to the Local. G. CASH ADVANCES FOR TRAVEL: Checks covering anticipated expenses excluding lost wages shall be provided to Local representatives authorized to conduct Union business. All advances for expenses must be submitted on a Voucher and the proper receipts shall be given to the Secretary-Treasurer at the conclusion of the Union business. H. IN TOWN EXPENSES: When Local representatives are authorized to attend conventions, conferences and meetings, only the following expenses shall be authorized to be paid: Lost Wages: The Representatives’ actual lost wages based on the Representative’s work schedule. WAGES AND ALLOWANCES FOR LOCAL OFFICERS, AREA REPRESENTATIVES, STEWARDS AND COMMITTEES: A. .MONTHLY ALLOWANCES SHALL BE PAID IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULE: President $215.00 Executive VP $182.00 Secretary-Treasurer $182.00 Vice President (s) $182.00 Area Representatives $45.00 Stewards $22.50 1. Since this allowance is intended to offset expenses incurred during the performance of their duties, the Executive Board may withhold allowances from the individual representatives when it is determined that their duties are not being performed. 2. All allowance vouchers must be current as there will be no reimbursement for allowances over 90 days old. B. LOST WAGES WILL BE PAID IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER BASED ON THE EMPLOYEE’S NORMAL WORK SCHEDULE 1. Local Officers: Shall be allowed up to 5 days per month for the purpose of performing duties as outlined in the Local Bylaws. This includes the day set aside to meet as the Executive Board. Additional time may only be granted upon prior approval of the President. No local officer will become full-time. 2. Area Representatives and Stewards: May be granted paid Union time only with prior approval from the President. 3. Committees: a. The Audit Committee may be allowed up to 4 hours per month for the purpose of auditing the financial records. The President must approve any other time in advance. b. The Election Committee will be reimbursed actual lost wages according to their normal work schedule. The President must approve all time in advance. c. All other Committees should meet on their own time. However, if the circumstances warrant paid time, the President must approve any paid time in advance. 4. Reimbursement for lost wages may not be paid until a copy of the member’s pay stub for the specific time period has been presented to the Secretary Treasurer C. UNION PAID STATUS: Any Officer, Area Representative, or Steward, with approval of the President, may be placed on Union paid status for the performance of pre-bargaining and contract negotiations. The Union paid status is on behalf of CWA Local 7011 for activities that cannot be performed on paid employer leave. The Officer, Area Representative or Steward will be paid an allowance of $10.00 per hour. In no cases will overtime or double-dipping be allowed. D. LOST ACCURALS: Local Officers, Area Representatives, and Stewards who are employees of a public sector employer, shall be paid for lost accruals for sick leave, annual leave, and retirement, will be loosing while on leave without pay-union business. The following percentage rates will be added to employee’s compensation for each hour of leave where their accruals will be affected: .047 Per hour for sick leave; .085 Per hour for annual leave: and .165 Per hour for retirement. VICE PRESIDENTS’ AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY The area of responsibility of each VP, as defined below, may be temporarily changed by the Local President. A permanent change to the area of responsibility will be accomplished by a Rule change. The area of responsibility may not be changed within 60 days of a scheduled election. Where two or more Vice Presidents represent the same sector, consideration shall be given for the equitable division of work. Vice President 1 Private Sector: Qwest: Mass Markets, Agent Services, Print Center, Dex Media & Cingular Wireless Vice President 2 Private Sector: Qwest: LNO & BRI, Avaya, L-3 Vertex, M1Support Services, Tecom, US Helicopter, Bare Bones, Print Professionals. Vice President 1 UNM: UNM Vice President 2 UNM: UNMH, TVI AREA REPS AND STEWARDS DUTIES A.. Area Representatives: 1. Work Location Lists: Work location lists should be handed in every month. Lists are due by the General Meeting every second Tuesday of the month at 7:00pm. If there are no changes, lists should still be turned in with the current date entered. Please, put an asterisk (*) by the new changes. These lists should include: Name of Stewards, members, non-members, supervisor, work location, titles, addresses and phone numbers. 2. Enlist New Members: If there is a new employee or non-member in your work area, it is your responsibility to check their membership and dues status. If they are not a member or paying dues, you need to educate them on Union Membership and have them fill out a dues deduction card and membership application, If the person refuses, the Vice President of your group should be notified immediately. 3. Other Duties: To work with the Stewards in your area, (if any) and ensure the Stewards duties are covered. The President or your Vice-President may assign other duties. 4. Union Programs: In order to build the Union and promote Solidarity among our members, it is imperative that each representative promote the Union and Local programs. This would include Mobilization activities like: Red T-Shirt Thursday, Get Out The Vote, etc. B. Job Stewards: 1. Work Location Lists: Update work locations lists monthly and turn them in to your Area Representative prior to monthly meetings. 2. Bulletin Boards: Make sure the bulletin boards in you area or buildings are kept current with all information from the Local. 3. Forms: It is your responsibility to have all on hand for the people in your area. These would include, but not limited to, grievance forms, record requests, membership forms, COPE forms and blue sheets. 4. Union Programs: In order to build the Union and promote Solidarity among our members, it is imperative that each representative promote the Union and Local programs. This would include Mobilization activities such as: Red T-Shirt Day, Get Out The Vote, etc. C. Grievances: Area Representatives and Stewards must keep their Vice President informed about all meetings they are attending on behalf of the Local. They are also responsible for letting the Vice President know about any work group issues within their department. D. Attendance at monthly membership meetings: In the event you are ill and need to be excused, you must contact your VP prior to the meeting. No one will be excused after the fact. LOCAL MEETINGS: A. Area Representatives and Steward’s meetings may be held each month with their Vice President. B. Outlying Areas and Informational Meetings: At the discretion of the Executive Board and upon request of the members in the Outlying Areas, meetings may be held in various outlying areas. MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS: A. No one will be allowed to attend Union meetings other than Local 7011 members, their family, special guests such as political or other speakers. B. The Local President may appoint a Sergeant- At- Arms to assist him/her in maintaining decorum at each regular or special meeting. C. No alcoholic beverages shall be allowed anywhere on the premises during meetings. Members not complying or acting in a disorderly manner will be removed from the hall. D. In consideration of the health of our members, there shall be no smoking in the Local Union Hall during the monthly membership meeting. E. All motions presented during unfinished and new business must be submitted in writing, dated and signed. They shall be given to the secretary treasurer. BARGAINING COMMITTEES A. The nomination and election of bargaining committee members shall take place during a special meeting. B. Notice of the special meeting shall be posted on all appropriate Union bulletin boards no later than seven (7) days prior to the meeting. C. Any member employed within the bargaining unit/ classification may run for the position(s) on the bargaining committee. D. Based on the size and diversity of the Bargain unit, The Union will determine the number of Bargain Committee members and classification slots allocated to each Bargaining unit. E. The nominee(s)/ classification receiving a plurality of the secret ballot votes cast by the members within the bargaining unit shall be declared elected. CWA Local 7011 Campaign Rules For Union Office 1. Campaigning must only be done on your personal time. All Company excused time, whether paid or unpaid including UANN is allowed. ALL time spent campaigning must be recorded by each individual and submitted weekly to the Secretary-Treasurer by voucher with the dates and times. 2. Union/Employer funds and resources of any type may not be used to support the candidacy of any person in a Union officer election (including campaigning on Union Time by Union officials). 3. The voter eligibility list may be inspected by a candidate, one time only, prior to the mail out of the ballots, while accompanied by a member of the election committee. The list may not be copied, removed from the hall, or compared to any other list. 4. Campaigning is only permitted on public property. Campaigning, including the distribution of campaign literature, within any structure where Union members are employed is strictly prohibited. 5. Campaign literature mail-out: The use of the CWA, NABET logo on campaign literature is permitted and is available at the hall. Upon request, each candidate is entitled to have their campaign literature distributed to the membership by the Union at the candidate’s expense (postage, cost of labels, and local union secretary’s expense). Please consult the time line for the deadline, as there will be no exceptions. Candidates may send their flyers together to save on expenses. The candidates are to have their flyers printed prior to arriving at the hall. The flyers must be prepared for delivery, the postage pre-paid while in the presence of a member of the Election Committee and remain at the hall. A member of the Election Committee will be responsible for delivering the flyers to the Post Office. Any candidate desiring the assistance of the Local’s secretary must schedule a time to work with her outside normal business hours, presently Monday- Friday 9AM-3PM. Each candidate will be required to reimburse the secretary for her assistance at her current hourly rate and any other miscellaneous expenses. 6. Candidates are entitled to have no more than two observers at the ballot mail out or ballot counting. Candidates are required to notify the Election Committee of the identity of their observers prior to the counting of the ballots. 7. If you have any questions that require a ruling, an interpretation or desire a clarification during the campaign you must contact a member of the election committee from the phone list. Upon receipt of your question, you will receive a verbal answer within 24 hours, followed by a written response in the mail. A letter with your question and our response will be sent to all other candidates. 8. If you desire to file a challenge, please contact a member of the election committee. A challenge must have in writing: allegations, specific dates, times, and witnesses. Verbal challenges are not acceptable. Arrangements to personally receive your challenge will be made. Do not fax it to the hall. The above CWA Local 7011 Campaign Rules For Union Office are not all inclusive. The Election Committee, with the approval of the Department of Labor, Office of Labor Management, may change them as the need arises. AMENDED : 02-12-92 ; 08-13-92 ; 11-10-92; 02-08-94; 06-14-94; 08-08-95; 01-09-97; 11-13-01; 04-16-03; 06-10-03; 07-08-03; 10-14-03; 11-11-03; 01-13-04; 04-13-04 09-14-04 01-11-05 12-13-05 02-14-06 |
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