At its April 24 meeting,
the DC 37 Delegates Council rejected two proposed amendments to the unions
constitution.
One would have prohibited bloc voting by local delegations
in elections of DC 37 officers. The other would have doubled the number of delegates
in union locals with up to 500 members and added an extra delegate for every 1,000
members of larger union locals.
Delegates voted 91-54 for the ban on
bloc voting and 90-65 to increase the number of delegates, but both votes fell
short of the two-thirds required to pass a constitutional amendment.
The proposals were originally part of a single amendment recommended for approval
by the Executive Board and the Laws and Rules Committee, which is chaired by Local
2054 President Joan Reed.
The delegates split it into two separate amendments
at the suggestion of Jackie Beckett, president of the American Museum of Natural
History Local 1559.