It's a Leadership Problem!

     On March 10^th at our monthly Union membership meeting a motion was made, seconded and passed, that required our union leadership to post a complete copy of the meeting rules on our Local 1285 web site.

   Our meetings are regulated by the Atwood’s Rules for Meetings. This book is not commonly available as it is out of print. 

    Contrary to what our Union president said at this meeting, the International does NOT require us to use this manual. We can choose it if we want, but the readily available Roberts Rules of Order is also acceptable.

    There was a time limit established for the completion of this motion. As the web site had crashed recently the motion was amended to give them 30 days after the website was up and running again, to complete this task.  Given that a union member volunteered to complete this task on his own, so as our membership could have access to the rules governing the meetings, I am perplexed as to why this has not happened yet.

  Our Union leadership can arrange a two-day vote and manage to spend five hundred thousand dollars of OUR money, with a small percentage of membership actually voting to do so. They can then take that money purchase a building, begin the plans to renovate it, all in under a few weeks, but somehow they can not manage to fix the website, and post the rules in, lets see what has it been now 40 days.

   That makes me wonder why our union leadership is so adverse to its rank and file members having access to the rules.  Could it be because then they could not manipulate the meetings to their benefit and silence dissent? 

   How many times will our members have to be shown, that our leadership is not looking out for what is best for us, but for them?  Do we have any takers on the over and under for how long it will actually take to get IAFF Local 1285 web site back up and running?