{"id":4042,"date":"2012-04-04T21:55:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T02:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2012-04-04T21:55:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T02:55:20","slug":"national-executive-board-removes-constitution-provision-in-conflict-with-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/04\/04\/national-executive-board-removes-constitution-provision-in-conflict-with-law\/","title":{"rendered":"National Executive Board Removes Constitution Provision in Conflict with Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/APWU-News1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4043\" title=\"APWU-News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/APWU-News1-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Executive Board (NEB) has removed from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/dept\/sec-treas\/stconstitution2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">APWU Constitution &amp; Bylaws<\/a> [PDF] a provision that was in conflict with federal law. In response to a local election challenge, the Department of Labor ruled on Jan. 11, 2011, that a portion of Article 3.1 could not be fairly enforced, and, therefore, implementing its provisions would violate the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act.<\/p>\n<p>The language in question was intended to prevent union members who are receiving pay from the OWCP (Office of Workers Compensation) from maintaining \u201cgood-standing\u201d status if they fail to pay union dues. Only union members in \u201cgood standing\u201d are eligible to vote in union elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Labor (DOL) concluded that the local had no way of knowing whether members were receiving pay from the OWCP. The local \u201cdoes not, nor can it, collect information as to whether a member is being paid through OWCP,\u201d the DOL wrote. \u201cThe employer is under no obligation to make such a report to the union, and, due to privacy law restrictions, OWCP will not release information concerning individual payments to the union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the DOL ruling, the NEB deleted the following phrase from Article 3.1 of the APWU Constitution:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(except for members on the automatic rolls or receiving pay for an approved on-the-job-injury from the Department of Labor \u2013 Office of Worker\u2019s Compensation Programs)<\/p>\n<p>In making the change, the NEB exercised its authority under Article 22.2 of the union\u2019s constitution, which permits the board to act between conventions to remove conflicts between the union\u2019s bylaws and applicable federal or state law.<\/p>\n<p>Locals are advised that they should not enforce the deleted provision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Executive Board (NEB) has removed from the APWU Constitution &amp; Bylaws [PDF] a provision that was in conflict with federal law. In response to a local election challenge, the Department of Labor ruled on Jan. 11, 2011, that a portion of Article 3.1 could not be fairly enforced, and, therefore, implementing its provisions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4045,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions\/4045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}