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MEMORANDUM
To:Dan, Emma, Amy, Bill, Larry Afilliates, Chapters & ClubsFrom:Alex Rabb, Emma Wolfe, Bill LiptonAlexRE: Voting on the WFO NYCCC and SCThis memo will hopefully answer the questionssome of you you’ve have been asking aboutvoting on the WFO NYCCCand SC.I’ve included some examples – please note that the
examples assume that the affiliates are paid up and current.Please feel free to call me if you have questions.
Overall vote cap for related organizations
Organizations that are affiliated to the same parent organization may each affiliate with theWFO. No grouping of such organizations and their parent organization may have more than 15State Committee votes.Organizations requesting exemption from the voting cap may appeal to the ExecutiveCommittee. Because no affiliate has been affected by the limit yet, none have requested anexemption. There are no guidelines for what factors the EC should consider, but during the bylaws revision process affiliates discussed as factors: separate endorsement processes, verylarge numbers of members, and independence from an international or other locals.
Examples:
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UFCW 1500, RWDSU, and RWDSU 338 are capped at 15 votes total – this has not beenan issue because they have 12 votes.
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SEIU locals are capped at 15 votes total. Practically, this has not been an issue in the past, because 1199 has had 8 votes, 32BJ has had 6, and
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the other locals that have affiliated (200United, etc.) rarely vote at the statecommittee
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There is no other SEIU local affiliated to the NYC Coordinating Council (758merged with HERE Local 6)
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The Hotel and Motel Trades Council is a separate parent organization from UNITEHERE, and although they are both parents to Local 6, they are not capped at 15 votes, because there are at least 25,000 UNITE HERE members in NYC and NYS who are notLocal 6 members (so local 6 is considered not to have affiliated through UNITE HERE).
Limits on affiliations by locals
If a district or statewide body of given organization is NOT affiliated, but four or more if itscomponent organizations are, voting power will be based on the cumulative number of membersaffiliated from all the component organizations.
Example:
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At one point, 10 XXTeamsters organizations (xx9IBT locals and ALA 1)werehave
affiliated with the WFO for a total of 14 votes. However, since no statewide or districtIBT organization has affiliated, their combined voting strength on theSC NYCCCis based on the number of members affiliated, not the amount of dues paid. Since they haveaffiliated a combined maximum of 18,990 members, they can exercise a maximum of 6votes combined. Note that their actual combined number of members may actually belower.For the purposes of this section, a district or statewide body is considered to have affiliated onceit has affiliated at least 15,000 members.
Examples:
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IBT international must affiliate at least 15,000 members (at a dues level of $22,500) inorder to lift this limit.
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SEIU has not been subject to this limit – the justifications that have been offered are that1199 has at times functioned as the SEIU NYS council within SEIU and at least oneSEIU local has affiliated more than 15,000 members.
Deadlines
After May 1, an affiliate’s voting strength is based on its payment (or compliance with anapproved payment plan) as of 60 days prior to the vote. Before May 1, an affiliate’s votingstrength is based on its dues paid during the previous year.
Payment plans
Affiliate dues shall be paid on or before the last day of February. Affiliates that are unable due to budgetary or organizational constraints to comply with this deadline shall, on or before the lastday of February, declare their dues level for the year and develop a payment plan with theExecutive Director. The Executive Director must report all payment plans to the ExecutiveCommittee. Any affiliate whose payment plan is rejected by the Executive Director may appealto the Executive Committee.
Affiliates’ votes on the NYC coordinating council.
An affiliate’s votes on the NYC Coordinating Council are the same as its votes on the StateCommittee, but limited by the number of members it has in New York City.
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An organization that has affiliated 10,000 members statewide (at a dues level of $15k) but has only 4,000 members in NYC will have 5 votes on the state committee but 3 voteson the NYCCC.
Vote scale
The vote scale on both the NYCCC and the SC is:
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