Article 14

Charter Members and Meetings of Local Unions

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Section 1 (a). Charter members shall consist of the names forwarded to International Union headquarters with the application for charter.

(b). The first money received from an applicant for membership must be applied to the payment of dues for the month in which the applicant is first obligated to pay dues. If a Local Union permits an applicant to pay an initiation fee on a deferred basis, the installment payments must be allocated to first satisfy the member's dues obligation. Membership for new members shall date from the first month for which dues are paid once full payment of the initiation fee is completed. All new members presenting themselves for initiation shall receive upon request a free copy of the Constitution and Local Union Bylaws from the Local Union. However, any alleged failure to receive such copy shall not excuse a member from violation of any duty or obligation imposed upon him by his oath of office, initiation or membership.

(c). A Local Union by majority vote may keep its charter open for a term of thirty (30) or sixty (60) days after receiving the same.

Meetings
Section 2 (a). Membership meetings shall be general or special.

1. General membership meetings shall be held monthly at such place and time as shall be designated by the Local Union Executive Board, subject to disapproval by the membership, except where otherwise approved by the General Executive Board. The General Executive Board shall establish such conditions relative to the holding of meetings as in its judgment it deems advisable. Membership meetings may be suspended during any three (3) months between June and October by action of the membership at a meeting after reasonable notice of the intention to vote upon such question.
2. Members in attendance at membership meetings shall have the right to express their views, arguments or opinions upon any business properly before the meeting, subject to Local Union Bylaws and the rules and regulations adopted by the Local Union Executive Board pertaining to the conduct of meetings, but no member in exercising such rights shall evade or avoid his responsibility to the organization as an institution or engage in or instigate any conduct which would interfere with the Local Union's performance of its legal or contractual obligations.
3. The Local Union Executive Board is authorized to permit membership meetings to be held on a division, craft, place of employment or other similar basis as it shall consider appropriate considering the special needs of the organization so as to permit the membership to attend meetings and to express their views and otherwise exercise their rights as members. There shall be no limitation on the right of any member to be heard at any such separate meeting provided herein on all matters which apply to the general membership, but such member shall be permitted to vote only at such separate division, craft or place of employment meeting to which he has been assigned. Membership meetings permitted under this subsection shall be subject to all of the requirements of Section 2 (a) (1) and (2) above.

When the Local Union Executive Board authorizes such meetings by division, craft or place of employment, each such meeting shall be conducted by the officers of the Local Union or by their designees and under the same procedures and rules as a general membership meeting, excepting only special meetings for limited purposes, such as voting on contracts or strikes, handling of grievances, etc.

On all matters which apply to the general membership, the votes of the meeting of each particular division, craft or place of employment shall be totaled to determine the action of the Local Union in such matter.

Members at each separate division, craft or place of employment authorized to hold separate meetings may vote separately on initiation fees, dues and assessments which may apply to them alone, if higher than the minimum applicable to the general membership, and may, when authorized by the Local Union Executive Board, vote separately on approval or disapproval of, or on matters arising under, contracts applicable only to them, and strikes or other activities in which only they will participate.

(b). Any Local Union failing to comply with this Section during the twelve (12) month period immediately preceding application for benefits or, in the case of a Local Union chartered for less than twelve (12) months, during the period following its chartering, shall not be entitled to any financial or other benefits from the International Union; provided that the General Executive Board may, for good cause shown, waive the requirements of this Constitution in respect to the paying of financial or other benefits and authorize the paying of same. The General Executive Board may revoke the charter of any Local Union failing to comply with this Section.

Section 3. Every member, by virtue of his membership in the Local Union, authorizes his Local Union to act as his exclusive bargaining representative with full and exclusive power to execute agreements with his employer governing terms and conditions of employment and to act for him and have final authority in presenting, processing and adjusting any grievance, difficulty or dispute arising under any collective bargaining agreement or out of his employment with such employer in such manner as the Local Union or its officers deem to be in the best interests of the Local Union, all subject to Article XII and other applicable provisions of the International Constitution relating to such matters. The Local Union and its officers, business representatives and agents may decline to process any grievance, complaint, difficulty or dispute if in their reasonable judgment such grievance, complaint or dispute lacks merit. The provisions of Article XII, relating to area, multi-area, national, company-wide or industry-wide contracts, shall supersede any provision of this Section.

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