Delegates to the August, 2022 APWU Biennial National Convention easily reached the two-thirds vote threshold necessary to amend the APWU National Constitution to allow each APWU Retiree Chapter one delegate to future APWU Conventions. After some backroom manipulations and parliamentary procedure twist and turns, members of the APWU Retirees Department gained an increase in their…
Arguments For and Against Increased Retiree Voting Rights at National APWU Convention By Paul Browning, President, Michigan State Retiree Chapter There appears to be two (2) disconnects between still working members and retiree members that are a basis for prejudice against retirees concerning increased voice and vote for retirees at APWU National Conventions. (Note that…
Everybody is familiar with the childhood fable of the village shepherd boy who continuously cried wolf as a joke to arouse all the villagers. When a wolf actually did appear and the boy cried Wolf, he was ignored as it being just another joke and his sheep were devastated by the wolf. The parallel here…
