DOL LM-2 LOG

TO: Anyone out there that is looking for the:

DOL LM-2 Labor Organization 

Annual Report for the Regional Council

PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING:

#1: Please visit the 

  United States Department of Labor Union Reports Search Engine

#2: Please search for the following file number

 # 035-751

And that is how you will find the DOL LM-2 Report!

More Thoughts about our Constitution

Again, I was paging through our Constitution when I came upon the following items...

PAGE: 34
SECTION: B
TITLE: "Nomination, Election, and Appointment in Subordinate Bodies"
According to this section, the following are neccessities of the 

"...Business Representatives, Assistant Business Representatives, and Organizers shall be appointed by the Executive Secretary Treasurer of the Council, subject to the approval of the Executive Committee of the Council..."

In my time as a delegate I don't think we have hired any new Business Representatives or Organizers. 

Furthermore, I do not believe I have ever heard of the Executive Committee 
approving someone to be a Business Representative or Organizer. 
And that is if we had hired one. Anyone, please correct me if I am wrong.

ALTERNATE DELEGATES

Hey members!

So, as I was reading through our North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters Bylaws booklet, I noticed something quite fantastic...

According to our Bylaws 

[on page 25, section 37]

TITLED: Alternate Delegates

 the following text will be found:

"Alternate Regional Council Delegates from a Local Union

are recognized by this Regional Council and must be eleceted

in accordance with the Constitution and the Laws of the United

Brotherhood governing nominations and elections in subordinate

bodies. The number of alternate delegates cannot exceed one [1]

for Local Unions under 500 members and two [2] alternate

delegates for Local Unions over 501 members. An alternate

Delegate can only vote when he or she is replacing an 

excused regular Delegate."

According to this, found in our governing text, 

all Locals should be able to seat Alternate Delegates 

when a Regular Delegate is excused. 

However, according to our EST [Jim Moore] the 

Locals of this Regional Council will not be seating Alternates.

HOW DOES THIS WORK OUT?

This makes me wonder if the EST 

is now more powerful than the our Constitution and Bylaws.

Or, better yet, does this mean our

EST is enforcing rules arbitrarily? For his benefit?

It makes me wonder. 

It should make all of our members wonder too.

 

A Website for Members

I will be making a motion 

at the April 13th Local #322 meeting to have a Local #322 website created.

I am making this motion because:

I think that it would be an extremely 

beneficial, timely, and efficient 

way for the local to communicate.

I think that creating this website would allow for  

more transparency within our local 

as Mr. Harry D. Melander, our Local #322 President, stated we need.

This website, I will suggest, 

will be most relevantto the members of Local #322 

and will only have user profiles to be had by members of the local.

-The following is the text of the 

motion I have created for this-

To the members of Local #322, I make the motion that the Local [#322] create a website for the sole purpose of sharing pertinent Local information with its members. This website is to contain all business/correspondence, mail, and requests. Also hosted on this site are to be copies of the E-Board meeting minutes and Local #322 Union meeting minutes-whether these minutes are approved or not. Unapproved meeting minutes of Local #322’s E-Board meetings and Union meetings are to be posted within 48 hours of the respective meeting’s adjournment. Also following the adjournment of the meeting, and subsequent vote to approve the previous meeting’s minutes, these minutes are to be stamped by the Recording Secretary as having been approved or unapproved. The business/correspondence, mail, requests, and minutes are to be posted expediently and in a pdf or Open Office format to be easily accessible by all. The Local [#322] will cover all expenses of designing and maintaining said Local #322 website.

In the interest of making our UnitedTogether322 blog more apparent...

Goodmorning!

In the interest of making our UnitedTogether#322 blog more easily accessible, this URL [http://unitedtogether322.blogspot.com] has been submitted to a number of different search engines. By providing the blog's URL to different search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, the blog will be more easily found by our local's members.

A BREAKDOWN OF THE PROBLEM:
Search engines perform "crawls" of the internet. During these "crawls" new URLs are found - new URLs such as the one that would direct you to our little blog here! As the internet is massive, adding a URL can take some time. But have no fear, because I [Pete's daughter, Hannah] am a troubleshooting master! Below is a list of search engines that have successfully, and a couple not successfully, that have added the [http://unitedtogether322.blogspot.com] URL to their library. Additions such as these do not take effect overnight.

Once again, understand that world-wide-web is immense, these things can take a bit of time.

A way to help the process is to get involved! Get other people involved on our blog, comment on the blog posts, search for the blog on Google.com or Blogger.com. The more people that are looking for us, and the more people that are participating, the more pertinent our blog's "search-a-bility" will be.

SEARCH ENGINE ADDITIONS 3.24.11.

Google ... successful
Jayde ... failed

Alexa ... successful
Scrub the Web ... successful
ExactSeek ... successful
Fyber Search ... successful
InfoTiger ... successful
WalHello ... successful
EntireWeb ... failed
Burf ... successful
WebSquash ... successful
Anoox ... failed
GhetoSearch ... successful
Feedplex ... successful
Amfibi ... successful
Active Search Results ... successful
SurfSafely ... successful
WhatUSeek ... successful
Amidalla ... successful
Secret Search Engine Labs ... failed
Acoon ... successful
Boitho ... successful
MyaHint ... successful
SearchSight ... successful
Claymont ... successful
Slider ... successful

"META" SEARCH ENGINE ADDITIONS 3.24.11.

All the Web Alta Vista AOL Beauco Up! Clusty CurryGuide Dogpile Excite Family Friendly Search Fazzle Find Info Galaxy GigaBlast Go.com Hotbot

IceRocket Info.com InfoGrid InfoSpace Internet Sleuth Ixquick iZito Kanoodle Kartoo Lycos Mamma MetaCrawler MetaEureka Netscape One Page MultiSearch Engines

Proteus Scrub the Web Search Hippo Search the Web Search.com SurfWax Teoma Turbo10 WebCrawler ZapMeta Highway 61 37.com One Seek MetaSpider MegaGo

Time & Date of Next Local #322 Meeting

3.23.11.

Hello friends. I hope everyone is enjoying this late spring snow storm!

So last night, after a day of work at The Pier House in Minneapolis, I stopped by 730 Olive Street to speak with Rick Peterson. After kabbitzing with Rick for awhile our conversation turned toward the reason I'd stopped in, to find out the date and time of our new #322 union meetings. Rick told me that the next meeting of Local #322 will happen on Wednesday, April 13th at 7:30 pm. This 7:30 pm meeting is to be held at 730 Olive Street. After hearing this I told Rick that 7:30 pm was not the time that was recommended by the members at the last meeting. The members had requested the meeting take place at 6 pm on any Wednesday during the month[s]. Rick went on to me that the time and date of the Local #322 meetings would be decided by the Executive Board [E-Board]. 

After hearing this, I reminded Rick that any motion that is seconded and passed on the floor of a Local #322 meeting will supersede a decision made by the E-Board and cannot be rescinded by them. 

I strongly recommended to Rick Peterson, Burt [the lawyer], and Jake Rogers, that the E-Board take the local's request for 6 pm Wednesday meetings to heart. "There will be an uprising if they do not take our request seriously," I told Rick. [I was only partially kidding when I told him this.] 

I guess we will see what happens.

Hello Everyone!

Hello Everyone!

Welcome to the new Local #322 blog site!

To begin, this message is to represent the mission statement of this blog. 

Please see below.

 This blog site is to function as a means of communication amongst all members of Local #322. The purpose of this site, on a larger scale, is to act as a facility for the exchange of beneficial ideas. This forum is to be unabridged, member-mediated, and in all ways a fair, open, and unbiased discussion board.

Pointedly, it is to be noted that in no way is this site related to, or governed by, the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters.

No posts, updates, or other information from this blog are or will be connected to the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters in a manner outside of content.