Membership Rights Trampled.... Meetings DENIED!!!

WE MEMBERS SHOULD BE ASHAMED AND APPALLED at how we allow ourselves to be treated by tin-horn dictator and midget Machiavelli, Dave Holway and his hand picked gutless minions.

By the way folks..... there's an ELECTION about to happen,

We NEED to have some NEW PEOPLE step up to run in the current election, some people who will have the interests of the membership in mind and not Holway's,

.... candidates who will not be assimilated and cowed by Holway into the mold of the current vice presidents, etc.... (the highly overpaid lightweights who make up the gutless Holway rubber stamp bureau at Burgin parkway.)

If such candidates step forward, we should support them in the upcoming election..... I'll keep my eye for the ballots and keep you updated here.....

(There is at least one guy I've heard is considering a run for VICE PRESIDENT BLOCK 2........(that's DPH, DMR, and DMH) and he'd be GREAT, if he decides to run...I'm waiting to hear from him...)

Take a look at how Holway and the "Executive Board" at NAGE headquarters have cooked the "constitution" to prevent members from attending meetings and having meaningful participation in Union business.....

.....and compare it to how a true democratic union (MOSES), guarantees the rights of their members to attend meetings and mange union business.....via their constitution

The differences are STRIKING!!!! I assure you.

First, here's what the pathetic NAGE "constitution" provides for meetings: (Jesus, talk about giving bullshit a bad name!!, calling this piece of excrement a constitution)

SECTION 8.
All Local Units shall have at least one general membership meeting annually.

(Let me point out a few obvious deficiencies with this "requirement")

• No notification requirements....
• No agenda requirements....
• No minutes taken or published
  
• No rules of order, no procedural requirements
• No requirement that business actually be conducted...
• No quorum (why bother... there isn't any real business to be conducted)
• THESE THINGS ARE NEVER SCHEDULED ANYWAY!!!(Alright, ALMOST NEVER....) -this is a JOKE on the Members

The moses web page sums up MOSES's meetings pretty well...(click the link real unions have meetings)
Participation:

Membership Meetings are held 9 times per year throughout the state
Includes dinner and social hour
(holy MOLEY! dinner and a social hour..... what did you ever get from NAGE.... NOTHING!)
Opportunity to vote on major issues and to express your opinion

Here's what the MOSES constitution provides

ARTICLE VIII

MEETINGS

SECTION 1. REGULAR MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS

A. REGULAR MEETINGS OF THIS ORGANIZATION SHALL BE HELD THE SECOND TUESDAY OF JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, MAY, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, EXCEPT, WHEN SAID MEETINGS FALL ON A NATIONAL OR STATE ELECTION DAY, THE BOARD AND MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS MAY BE CHANGED TO ANOTHER DAY. ON THE YEARS WHEN OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES ARE ELECTED, THE REGULAR NOVEMBER MEMBERSHIP MEETING SHALL BE HELD AT LEAST FIVE WEEKS PRIOR TO THE REGULAR DECEMBER MEETING.
B. TIME AND PLACE OF THESE MEETINGS SHALL BE ESTABLISHED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS WITH THE MEMBERSHIP DULY NOTIFIED BY MAIL AT LEAST SEVEN DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF THE MEETING.

SECTION 2. SPECIAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS

A. SPECIAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS MAY BE CALLED BY THE PRESIDENT, BY A MAJORITY VOTE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OR BY PETITION SIGNED BY TEN PERCENT OF THE MEMBERSHIP AND FILED WITH THE SECRETARY.
B. ALL MEMBERS SHALL BE NOTIFIED BY MAIL AT LEAST SEVEN DAYS IN ADVANCE OF SUCH MEETING, AND THE NOTICE SHALL BE MAILED NO LATER THAN THREE DAYS AFTER THE REQUEST FOR A SPECIAL MEETING HAS BEEN RECEIVED BY THE SECRETARY.

SECTION 3. SERGEANT AT ARMS

A. SERGEANT AT ARMS SHALL BE APPOINTED AT EACH MEMBERSHIP MEETING BY THE PRESIDENT WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, SECRETARY AND TREASURER.
B. HE/SHE SHALL TAKE CHARGE OF THE DOOR AT THE MEETINGS AND SEE THAT NONE BUT MEMBERS WITH MEMBERSHIP CARDS ENTER. HE/SHE SHALL ANNOUNCE BY NAME MEMBERS WITHOUT MEMBERSHIP CARD AND IF IT IS FOUND THAT THEY ARE IN GOOD STANDING, HE/SHE SHALL ADMIT THEM.
C. HE/SHE SHALL ASSIST THE PRESIDENT IN THE PRESERVATION OF ORDER.

SECTION 4. QUORUMS

A. TWENTY-FIVE MEMBERS IN GOOD STANDING SHALL BE PRESENT TO CONSTITUTE A QUORUM FOR THE TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS AT ANY REGULAR OR SPECIAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING OF THIS ORGANIZATION.

SECTION 5. MOTIONS

A. WRITTEN MOTIONS RECEIVED BY THE SECRETARY OF THIS ORGANIZATION PRIOR TO THE START OF ANY MEETING OF THIS ORGANIZATION SHALL HAVE PRIORITY OVER MOTIONS ORIGINATING FROM THE FLOOR AND SHALL BE TAKEN UP UNDER NEW BUSINESS IN THE ORDER OF THEIR RECEIPT AND DIRECTLY FOLLOWING ANY NEW BUSINESS FOR WHICH ADVANCE NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN.