Article 20

National and Corporation
Bargaining Councils

  40.       Section 1. In cases where there are a number
  41.   of Local Unions involved in negotiations and bar-
  42.   gaining with a major corporation or an association
  43.   of corporations, the International Executive Board

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  1. shall set up an Intra-Corporation Council. Such an
  2. Intra-Corporation Council shall be an administra-
  3. tive arm of the International Union and not a sub-
  4. ordinate body. Such Local Unions so involved shall
  5. be members and shall participate through duly
  6. elected delegates. When the large corporation or
  7. national association has widely scattered branches,
  8. the Intra-Corporation Council shall set up Sub-
  9. Corporation Councils.

  10.     Section 2. The International Executive Board
  11. shall determine the geographical districts or occu-
  12. pational or other groupings in which Sub-Corpora-
  13. tion Councils shall be established. The Intra-Cor-
  14. poration Council shall be composed of delegates
  15. from the Sub-Corporation Council.

  16.     Section 3. Directors to work with such Coun-
  17. cils shall be appointed by the President subject to
  18. the approval of the International Executive Board.

  19.     Section 4. Voting at National Intra-Corpora-
  20. tion Council meetings shall be based on per capita tax
  21. paid to the International Union by the various Lo-
  22. cal Unions participating.

  23.     Section 5. The purpose of the Intra-Corpora-
  24. tion Council shall be to coordinate the demands of
  25. the separate members and to formulate policies in
  26. dealing with their common employer. The Intra-
  27. Corporation Council shall be convened not later
  28. than thirty (30) days prior to the ipening of nego-
  29. tiations for a new national corporation agreement
  30. to formulate new contract demands. The Council
  31. shall deal only with matters pertaining to problems
  32. arising in their immediate corporations. It shall be
  33. understood that such Intra-Corporation Council is
  34. not a legislative body of the International Union
  35. and shall not deal with policies of the International
  36. Union other than those concerning their own im-
  37. mediate corporation problems.