ARTICLE 35

Amalgamated Local Unions

  1.     Section 1. Any two (2) or more units which are
  2. not a part of an Amalgamated Local Union may
  3. petition the International Executive Board for the
  4. formation of an Amalgamated Local Union. Such
  5. petitions must be approved by the membership of
  6. the units desiring an Amalgamated Local Union in
  7. a specially called membership meeting for that
  8. purpose. Upon receipt of such petitions the Inter-
  9. national Executive Board shall investigate the fea-
  10. sibility of an Amalgamated Local Union and if their
  11. decision is that an Amalgamated Local Union be
  12. set up, the Regional Director shall without delay
  13. set up an Amalgamated Local Union comprising
  14. the units as determined by the International Ex-
  15. ecutive Board.

  16.     Section 2. Any two (2) or more units of an
  17. Amalgamated Local Union may petition the Inter-
  18. national Executive Board to set up a Joint Council
  19. in their Local Union. The International Executive
  20. Board shall without undue delay investigate the
  21. practicality of a Joint Council for that Local Union
  22. and if they determine that a Joint Council shall be
  23. set up, the Local Union shall without delay set up
  24. a Joint Council based on the princuples in Section
  25. 3 of this Article. Members of such a Joint Council,
  26. whether directly elected thereto or holding mem-
  27. bership thereon by virtue of being elected to some
  28. other office or position, shall be elected by secret
  29. ballot with the same notice procedures as set forth
  30. in Section 2 of this Article.

  31.     Section 3. The membership of the Local Union
  32. shall be guaranteed:

  33.   (a)Proportional representation from each unit,
  34.       based on the dues dollar each unit pays to the
  35.       Local Union. In no case shall any unit be en-
  36.       titled to less than two (2) representatives to
  37.       the Joint Council.

  38.   (b)The right to appeal from any decision of the
  39.       Joint Council by referendum vote of the mem-
  40.       bership.

  41.   (c)That each unit will have autonomy on
  42.       matters pertaining strictly to that unit.

  43.   (d)That a percentage of every dues dollar which
  44.       a unit pays to the Local Union may be set aside
  45.       as a fund for the use of that unit for whatever
  46.       purpose thay so desire.

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  1.     Section 4. Additional organized units may be
  2. added to Amalgamated Local Unions only upon
  3. approval of the International Executive Board and
  4. subject to the majority vote of the membership of
  5. the unit and the Joint Council or membership of
  6. the Amalgamated Local Union. Unorganized units
  7. may be added to an Amalgamated Local Union
  8. upon the approval of the Regional Director.