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CNA Bylaws
What do you know about the CNA Bylaws?
You need to know what effect the CNA Bylaws can have on you!
The CNA Bylaws constitute a binding contract between the union
and its members. So just what does this mean? It imposes
certain requirements and obligations on members, some of which
are summarized below:
Article III – Membership and Dues
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Section
2, paragraph D, subparagraph 1 refers to membership
being dropped if a member does not pay dues in the amount
and within the time period as established by CNA procedure.
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Section 2, paragraph D, subparagraph 2 refers to the
requirement to pay reinstatement fees and any arrearages in
order to be reinstated.
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Section
2, paragraph E, subparagraphs 1(b), (c), and (d) refer
to violating the CNA Bylaws, advocating or engaging in
secession, or in the elimination of CNA as the
representative of employees in circumstances where CNA is
the bargaining representative of such employees (could be
interpreted as trying to decertify the union), and working
behind a picket line established by CNA in a primary dispute
with the employer (crossing a picket line to go to work).
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Section
2, paragraph E, subparagraph 2 refers to charges a
member may bring against another member for violations of
the above sections.
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Section 2, paragraph F, subparagraphs 1 through 6
refer to the serving of charges on a member and the
appropriate disciplinary action which may be imposed upon a
member “including, but not limited to reprimands, fines,
suspensions and expulsion.” Such disciplinary action
could occur because of crossing a picket line or “advocating
the elimination of CNA as the bargaining representative.”
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Section 3, paragraph C(8) describes one of the
allocations of monthly membership dues which includes
strengthening associations with “healthcare associations and
unions.”
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Section 3, paragraph D establishes the monthly
dues you must pay to the CNA.
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Section 3, paragraph F describes the system in which
dues will be levied, including setting aside your member
dues for a support fund for striking members in CNA contract
hospitals.
Understand that the courts have held that
a Union’s Constitution and Bylaws are a contract between the
union member and the union.
Right now you have no such obligations to a third party. You
are not encumbered by union Bylaws or the restrictions of a
labor contract. Right now you can and do deal directly with us
in carrying out your job assignments, resolving issues and
suggesting better ways of doing things.
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to download a complete set of CNA's bylaws
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