NEW YORK NURSE: November 2009

Voting Body actions

Bylaws amendments adopted by the Voting Body, Oct. 10, 2009

Establishment of new ARTICLE X – Congress of Bargaining Unit Leaders

SECTION 1. DEFINITION

The Congress of Bargaining Unit Leaders (The Congress) is an organizational unit comprised of at least one representative and not more than two representatives from each of the association’s local bargaining units. Each local bargaining unit has one vote in the Congress. The Congress is the broadest democratic unit representing the collective bargaining interests of the association members within the Economic and General Welfare Program.

SECTION 2. PURPOSES

The purposes of the Congress of Bargaining Unit Leaders are to:

  1. Advance the mission of the association as it relates to the Economic and General Welfare Program through the focused work of its local bargaining units.
  2. Identify and discuss the concerns of the local bargaining units and make recommendations to the chief executive officer and E&GW program director on how to address these concerns.
  3. Identify opportunities for providing mutual assistance to the local bargaining units to the CEO and program director.
  4. Participate in providing mutual assistance to the local bargaining units.
  5. Collaborate with the members of the local bargaining units, members of the Delegate Assembly, the CEO, and the program director in strengthening the association’s collective bargaining program.

SECTION 3. ACCOUNTABILITY

The Congress of Bargaining Unit Leaders shall operate under its own rules which shall be in conformity with the bylaws and policies of the association.

Renumber all subsequent articles accordingly.

Article XVIII – Organizational Membership in ANA (now ARticle XIX)

Amend Article XVIII – Organizational Membership in American Nurses Association by striking Section 3 c) and the proviso.

The language to be deleted is as follows:

c) No delegate shall serve more than four consecutive terms nor a total of more than eight consecutive years.

Proviso: This limit on eligibility to serve as a delegate shall commence with the election of delegates in 2001; delegates may be elected to serve four consecutive terms from that point forward irrespective of previous tenure as delegates.

Article XXI – Amendments, Section 1 (now Article XXiX)

Amend Article XXI Amendments, Section 1, second paragraph, by striking out “thirty” and inserting “seventy-five” so that the sentence would read: “All proposed amendments shall be in the possession of the secretary of this association at least seventy-five days before the date of the annual membership meeting or special meeting, as the case may be, and shall be appended to the call for such meeting.”

Main Motions approved by the 2009 Voting Body