Word: voting
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Term of the presiding officer shall be one year. The council may call for a new election for presiding officer by a two-thirds vote of the council. Funds for election of presiding officer shall be disbursed by the treasurer. The executive board shall set reasonable limits for this funding. The council shall hold debate (s) between the candidates. A space shall be left on the ballot for write-in votes...
...staff position doesn't acknowledge that there is a distinction--organizationally, philosophically and legally--between a worker and a union member. Once you recognize this difference, it becomes clear why "only certain workers" at Harvard could vote for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) transition team: only certain workers had decided to join the union...
...worker who opposes the union shouldn't care, and the union doesn't need advice on this matter from those who are not sympathetic to its very existence. Every club, from the Boy Scouts to the Democratic Party, has a rule for making internal decisions: each member, one vote. To stray from that rule would be organizational suicide...
...least half of the union's decision makes absolute sense. But there still is one lingering question: Why limit eligiblity for the transition team vote to those members who signed union cards before the May 17 election? The union says it did so because there has not been an organizing drive--with cards distributed to workers--since then. Yet, some have signed cards since then...
...committee was formed to discuss the divestment question after a pro-divestment overseer called on the Board to vote on the issue last year. The Board traditionally acts as an advisory body for the Corporation, which manages Harvard's investment policy, giving its opinion only when asked...