Suggested agenda/Motions for General Membership meeting

I think this bears repeating......

Please post comments for other agenda items and I'll see they are published here.....

If you ever get invited to a NAGE membership meeting bring this with you and make some motions to take up the urgent union business items listed below, see if any of the NAGE stooges allow any useful discussion....

Here is a suggested agenda for the meeting, when and if it is held.

Unit 1,3 & 6 General Membership Meeting Agenda-2009:

1st order of business: to set the time and place for next general membership meeting (and those to be scheduled for the rest of the year)
Don't let these skunks keep getting away with hiding from us while they squander our dues and get us nothing in return! Let's start calling these over-paid layabouts to account !......on a regular meeting basis!

Other business to be taken up AND VOTED by the members: (you all understand what voting is, right?.... that's what is supposed to happen in democratic organizations....something the sheeple in NAGE never get a chance at...)
Here' how you do it.... You stand up and "take the floor", you "move" an item to be considered by the members, you ask for someone to "second" the motion, then you debate it, and vote it.
Motions/agenda items.....

1. I move To see if the Members will vote to require that Mandatory general membership meetings be increased to 6 times per year
2. I move To see if the Members will vote to direct the "leadership" to see that meeting minutes are taken and published on the website
   
3. 
   
   I move To see if the Members will vote rescind (or approve) the recent dues increase foisted upon them by the "nationals".
   
   
   
4. I move To see if the Members will vote to limit the rate of future dues increases to be less than or equal to salary rate increases achieved by NAGE for members through contract negotiations (the recent increase in dues is approx 22%, while the recent salary increase is only 0%)
5. I move To hear the NAGE Financial report: Total Dues collected from members-by local and by agency, detailed expenditure report of same, proposed salary increases for NAGE officers and Employees.
6. I move To hear the report of the Grievance Committee: How many grievances have been filed, by agency, by local, and by issue. What is the current status of grievances, what was the outcome of settled grievances? How many grievances were handled by professional legal counsel, how many by unpaid volunteer stewards? What is the average length of time taken from grievance filing to settlement?
   
7. Election report: what was the precise tally, by candidate, for the recent election (every election gives the tally by candidate---except for NAGE and Iraq under Saddam Hussein)