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According to outgoing President Olamipe I.A. Okunseinde ’04, a subcommittee of individuals from the community will review the constitution to propose amendments and revisions. Their findings and suggestions will be presented to the membership at the elections Monday, and the timeline for their ratification will be determined by the newly elected board...
...There isn’t much sharing of info with membership,” Carens said. “That’s not a strong effective strategy to win a good contract. You have to try to reach out to all the rank-and-file members, and the way to do that is to make them feel like they can influence the way negotiations happen...
Nevertheless, strong leadership, enforced membership dues and trustee bailouts were able to get the organization back on its feet in the 1980s...
...Continent together, E.U. bureaucrats have grumbled about the intransigence of the new members in the past decade of accession negotiations; the new members remain disappointed about the miserliness of the old ones in providing aid. But May 1 should be a reminder that, for these states, E.U. membership is not a gift but a historical right; a belated return to justice and freedom. That's worth commemorating as the E.U., East and West, old and new, returns to the urgent business of grappling toward its new constitution. However messy that process gets, the East has its voice...
...Membership in the eParliament is open to the world's 25,000 democratically elected national legislators, including those in the U.S. Congress. Though the group is still at what Ury calls "the level of experiments" as organizers figure out how best to harness email, web chats and intranets to serve members, several hundred lawmakers have already signed on, representing countries from Brazil to India. Nonlegislators can join a related forum, paying a fee that depends on the size of their organization. The goal: to devise common solutions to common challenges. Collective problem solving makes sense, says Dunlop, the body...