Article 10

Officers and Elections

  23.       Section 1. The elective officers of the Interna-
  24.   tional Union shall be one (1) International Presi-
  25.   dent, one (1) International Secretary-Treasurer, five
  26.   (5) International Vice Presidents, who shall be
  27.   elected by the Convention, and such International
  28.   Executive Board Members as provided in Section
  29.   21. of this Article. The duties of the Vice presi-
  30.   dents shall be to assist the International President.

  31.       Section 2. Within the geographical districts as
  32.   determined by the International Constitution, the
  33.   International Executive Board Members shall be
  34.   nominated and elected in the regions as established
  35.   by the International Exeuctive Board and existing
  36.   on the actual day any such election commences
  37.   Only the delegates from the Local Unions in such
  38.   regions shall nominate and vote for their Interna-
  39.   tional Board Members. Any member in continu-
  40.   ous good standing for one (1) year, and who has
  41.   worked at least ninety (90) working days in a

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  1. workplace(s) located within the region, whose
  2. Local Union is located within the region can be
  3. nominated and elected. It shall require a two-thirds
  4. (2/3) vote of the International Executive Board to
  5. change the composition of any region within a geo-
  6. graphical district.

  7.     Section 3. The term of office of all elective of-
  8. ficers shall be for the period up to the next Con-
  9. vention and the term of office shall begin immedi-
  10. ately upon installation. The term of office of the
  11. Trustees shall be as provided for in Article 51.

  12.     Section 4. Nomination and election of all elec-
  13. tive officers and Trustees shall take place in the
  14. regular order of business of the Convention and
  15. election shall be determined by a majority vote of
  16. the delegates voting. Candidates shall be elected
  17. to various offices by one (1) roll-call vote. In the
  18. election of the Vice-Presidents each delegate may
  19. vote for five (5) candidates. If there are eight (8)
  20. or more nominees for the five (5) offices and less
  21. than five (5) candidates receive a majority vote,
  22. the candidate receiving the lowest number of votes
  23. shall be eliminated from the run-off election, and
  24. in each successive run-off election the candidate
  25. receiving the lowest number of votes shall be elimi-
  26. nated, unless such elimination would result in
  27. reducing the number of candidates in nomination to
  28. a figure equal to the remaining vacancy or vacan-
  29. cies.

  30.     name="5">Section 5. All elections on International Offic-
  31. ers and International Executive Board members
  32. shall be by roll-call vote. In any election for Inter-
  33. national President, International Secretary-Trea-
  34. surer, International Executive Board Member, or
  35. International Trustee where there are three (3) or
  36. more candidates and, on the first ballot no such
  37. candidate receives a majority, there shall be a run-
  38. off between the two (2) candidates who received
  39. the highest number of votes on the first ballot.

  40.     name="6">Section 6. No member shall be nominated or
  41. elected as an elective officer of the International
  42. Union, as set forth in Section 1 of this Article, who
  43. has not been in continuous good standing for a
  44. period of one (1) year preceding the date of nomi-
  45. nation.

  46.     Name="7">Section 7> No member of any Local Union shall
  47. be eligible to hold any elective or appointive posi-
  48. tion in this International Union or any Local Union

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  1. in this International Union if s/he is a member of
  2. or subservient to any political organization, such
  3. as the Communist, Fascist or Nazi Organization
  4. which owes its allegiance to any government other
  5. than the United States or Canada, directly or indi-
  6. rectly.

  7.     name="8">Section 8. No member of any Local Union shall
  8. be eligible to hold any elective or appointive posi-
  9. tion in the INternational Union, or any Local Union,
  10. if s/he is affirmatively engaged in the promotion,
  11. implementation, furtherance, or support of orga-
  12. nized workplace rackets, such as numbers, book-
  13. making, etc.

  14.     Section 9. The acceptance of an elective or ap-
  15. pointive office or position or of nomination to an
  16. elective office or position by and member who is
  17. ineligiblw under Sections 7 or 8 of this Article, is
  18. an offense against the Union punishable by a pen-
  19. alty up to and including expulsion.

  20.     Section 10. When a charge is preferred that a
  21. member is violating Section 9 of this Article, it
  22. shall be made and the accused member shall be
  23. tried according to the appropriate provisions of
  24. Articles 30 and 31. Resignation from an elective
  25. office or appointive position, or withdrawal of can-
  26. didacy by any member sharged with violation of
  27. Section 9 shall not require the dismissal of such
  28. charges.

  29.     Section 11. Upon conviction of a member by a
  30. Trial Committee of a Local Union or by an Inter-
  31. national Union Trial Committee of violation of
  32. Section 9 of this Article, any elective or appoint-
  33. ive office or position then held by such member
  34. shall be automaticallyvacated regardless of any
  35. other penalty Imposed.

  36.     Section 12. No member of any Local Union
  37. shall be eligible to hold or seek any elective or
  38. appointive position in the International Union, or
  39. in any Local Union, if s/he affirmatively engaged
  40. in: the promotion, implementation, furtherance or
  41. support of any other union or collective bargain-
  42. ing group with the purpose or intent of supplant-
  43. ing the International Union, or any subordinate
  44. body thereof, as the recognized collective bargain-
  45. ing agent; in efforts to decertify the International
  46. Union or any subordinate body thereof as the rec-
  47. ognized collective bargaining agent; or aiding or
  48. abetting an employer or another Union to thwart

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  1. organizing efforts by the UAW to become the bar-
  2. gaining agent. If, upon investigation by the Inter-
  3. national Union, it should appear by convincing
  4. evidence that any member is an violation of this
  5. Section, the International President, or the Inter-
  6. national Executive Board, may summarily suspend
  7. that member from any office or position, or the
  8. right to seek such office or position. Said suspended
  9. member shall be promptly notified and, within
  10. thirty (30) days of such notification, may appeal
  11. the suspension, in which case the member's ap-
  12. peal shall be processed in the same manner as ap-
  13. peals to the International Executive Board from
  14. decisions of subordinate bodies under Article 33
  15. of this Constitution; provided that the suspension
  16. shall automatically be lifted unless the International
  17. Executive Board has rendered its decision within
  18. one hundred twentyn(120) days of hte day the ap-
  19. pealing member commences an appeal.

  20.     If the suspended member fails to appeal from
  21. the suspension within the thirty (30) days allowed,
  22. or if the International Executive Board upon re-
  23. view upholds the suspension by a two-thirds (2/3)
  24. vote, the member shall be considered removed from
  25. any office or position s/he may have held, as well
  26. as from the privilege of seeking election or appoint-
  27. ment to any office or position, and the member shall
  28. not there after be eligible to hold any office or po-
  29. sition unless and until the removal has been lifted
  30. by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the International Ex-
  31. ecutive Board. Any member so suspended, who
  32. has taken an appeal to the International Executive
  33. Board without having the suspension lifted, may
  34. appeal the suspension either to the Public Review
  35. Board or the Convention Appeals Committee as
  36. provided for in Article 33 of this Constitution. The
  37. procedure provided in this Section shall be in ad-
  38. dition to, and exclusive of any other action which
  39. may be taken against such member.

  40.     Section 13. No member removed from office
  41. or position by reason of a conviction of any of-
  42. fense enumerated in Section 17 of Article 31 by a
  43. Local Union Trial Committee, shall be restored to
  44. office or position by reason of a reversal of such
  45. conviction by the body, which elected the Trial
  46. Committee, until after the lapse of sixty (60) days
  47. following such reversal, without a review having
  48. been ordered by the International Executive Board.

  49.     Section 14. Whenever any member removed

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  1. from elective office or position by reason of hav-
  2. ing been convicted of an offense shall have taken
  3. an appeal under Article 33, and whenever a review
  4. of any such conviction shall have been ordered by
  5. the International Executive Board under Section
  6. 18 of Article 31, the vacancy in office or position
  7. may be filled according to the applicable provi-
  8. sions of Section 14 of Article 38 or Secyion 15 of
  9. this Article, but any successor in such office or
  10. position shall hold the office or position subject to
  11. the right of restoration of the removed officer upon
  12. reversal of her/his conviction, subject to Section
  13. 13 of this Article.

  14.     Section 15. No member shall be entitled as a
  15. matter of right to restoration to any appointive po-
  16. sition by reason of acquittal or reversal of a con-
  17. viction.

  18.     Section 16. Incoming elective officers of the
  19. International Union shall be obligated and installed
  20. immediately after being elected. The obligation
  21. shall be the same as that provided for Local Union
  22. officers.

  23.     Section 17. In the event of the death, removal
  24. or resignation of the International President, Inter-
  25. national Secretary-Treasurer, or any of the Inter-
  26. national Vice-Presidents, the officer shall be re-
  27. placed by majority vote of all members of the In-
  28. ternational Executive Board by a member eligible
  29. to be a candidate in accordance with Section 6 of
  30. this Article.

  31.     In the event of the death, removal or resigna-
  32. tion of an International Trustee, the International
  33. Executive Board shall elect a replacement to serve
  34. until the next regular Constitutional Convention.

  35.     Section 18. In the event a vacancy occurs on
  36. the International Executive Board because of the
  37. death, removal, promotion of a member or other
  38. cause, the International Executive Board shall,
  39. within thrity (30) days, call a special regional con-
  40. vention for the region which the International Ex-
  41. ecutive Board Member represented. Such vacancy
  42. shall be filled by a member elected by the delegates
  43. from the Local Unions in the region. In the event
  44. of such vacancy occurring within sixty (60) days
  45. before a regular Constitutional Convention, no
  46. election shall take place and the office shall re
  47. main vacant. In any such special regional conven-
  48. tion, the delegates from each Local Union who had

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  1. elected to the preceeding regular Constitutional
  2. Convention shall serve as delegates to the Special
  3. Convention. Each Local Union shall carry the same
  4. total vote as it carried at such previous regular
  5. Constitutional Convention.

  6.     If there are vacancies in the voting delegation,
  7. they shall be filled in the following manner:

  8.   (a)By alternates where the same were elected to
  9.       the preceeding Constitutional Convention;

  10.   (b)If the number of delegates is insufficient after
  11.     applying (a), by reapportioning the votes of
  12.     the Local Union among the remaining del-
  13.     egates to the extent permitted by Section 7 of
  14.     Article 8;

  15.   (c)If the number of delegates is insufficient after
  16.     applying (a) and (b), by electing additional
  17.     delegates, these additional delegates to be
  18.     nominated and elected by secret ballot at suc-
  19.     cessive membership meetings; the required
  20.     notices for such nominations and election be-
  21.     ing those set forth in Sections 22 and 24 of
  22. Article 8.

  23.     Section 19. The International Executive Board
  24. Shall consist of the International Executive Board
  25. Members elected from the regions together with
  26. the International President, International Secretary-
  27. Treasurer and the International Vice Presidents.

  28.     Section 20. Voting strength of International
  29. Executive Board Members:

  30.   (a)Questions coming before the International
  31.     Executive Board may be decided by unit vote
  32.     of its members, but any member may demand
  33.     a roll-call vote on any question.

  34.   (b)Each member of the International Executive
  35.     Board shall have one (1) vote for each one
  36.     thousand (1000) members or major fraction
  37.     thereof represented by the member in her/his
  38.     region.

  39.   (c)Voting strength of each region shall be com-
  40.     puted on the basis of average monthly per
  41.     capita tax payments from each respective
  42.     region through the period of twelve (12)
  43.     months commencing thirteen (13) months pre-
  44.     ceding each quarterly meeting of the Interna-
  45.     tional Executive Board. The voting strength
  46.     of Executive Board Members at a special Ex-
  47.     ecutive Board Meeting shall be on the basis

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  1.     as at the preceding regular Executive Board
  2.     Meeting.

  3.   (d)The International President, International Sec-
  4.     retary-Treasurer and the International Vice
  5.     Presidents, shall each carry the same number
  6.     of votes, which shall be equal to the average
  7.     of the votes cast by the remaining members of
  8.     the International Executive Board.

  9.   (e)Members of the International Executive Board
  10.     may cast their votes by proxy.

  11.     Section 21. The geographical districts and the
  12. number of International Executive Board Members
  13. for each district of the International Union in the
  14. United States and Canada shall be as listed below.

  15.       1.Michigan, Canada................................4

  16.       2.Ohio, West Virginia (excluding Berkeley
  17.         County), and those parts of Pennsylva-
  18.         nia west of and including the counties of
  19.         McKean, Cameron, Cambria and
  20.         Somerset..............................................2

  21.       3.Indiana, Kentucky...............................1

  22.       4.Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin,
  23.         Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota
  24.         Wyoming and Montana........................1

  25.       5.Missouri, Arkansas, louisiana, Kansas,
  26.         Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New
  27.         Mexico, Washington, Oregon, Califor-
  28.         nia, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona,
  29.         Alaska, Hawaii.....................................1

  30.       8.Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina,
  31.         South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama,
  32.         Georgia, Florida, the District of Colum-
  33.         bia, Maryland, Delaware, the following
  34.         counties of Pennsylvania: Franklin,
  35.         Cumberland, Adams, York; and in West
  36.         Virginia, Berkeley County....................1

  37.       9.New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island,
  38.         Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont,
  39.         New Hampshire, Maine and those parts
  40.         of Pennsylvania east of and including
  41.         the counties of Potter, Clinton, Center,
  42.         Blair, Clearfield and Bedford, but
  43.         excluding the counties of Franklin,
  44.         Cumberland, Adans and York............2

  45.     When an Executive Board Member vacancy
  46. occurs in any region, for any reason, and the Inter-

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  1. national Executive Board determines that condi-
  2. tions and factors exist comparable to those which
  3. necessitated the decisions in 1984 to combine the
  4. regions in the Detroit Area and in 1990 to combine
  5. the regions in the Ohio district (that is, Ohio, West
  6. Virginia, and those parts of pennsylvania west of
  7. and including the counties of McKeon, Cameron,
  8. Cambria and Somerset), and further, determines
  9. that it is in the overall best interest of the Union,
  10. then the region will be combined with one (1) of
  11. the other contiguous regions. The remaining Ex-
  12. ecutive Board Member will have jurisdiction over
  13. the combined regions.