IATSE convention in 2005 - Tom Short and the National Board are up for reelection - Let your voice be heard!

Free Web Space is available on our server for those members who wish to form a  group like the Coalition for a Democratic Union within their local and need space on a web server.

Technical assistance is available (time permitting) for members who want to set up their own website.

The IA’s official site and the official sites of most IA locals lack an area for member discourse forums, listserves etc. 

We have some extra space and bandwidth to donate on a first come first served basis. 

We can create a pretty private forum for a local and its members:

a)  to discuss issues that they would like to be addressed at the
forthcoming IA convention

b) to have the candidates who want to be your delegates to the convention make their case for election and answer questions from your membership on their positions etc.

c) to have a space to discuss other issues and ideas that are important on the Local level. etc.

The convention is way more than a casual get together. It has considerable power to act and conducts very serious business indeed - for instance:

At a prior convention the delegates voted to give the international president the power not only to negotiate contracts but to sign, seal and deliver them without having to seek approval through a vote of the rank and file members who are obligated to work under those contracts - many examples of these contracts that effect the film/tv production locals are at the website.

http://www.iatse.org/Members_only/nat_contracts.htm

email:  webspace@iatse.org to reserve space for your local. 

Snippets From The IA Constitution re: convention/delegates

Article 2 - Section 2. Convention

The supreme governmental powers of this Alliance and its constituent members shall be vested in its duly elected delegates in Convention assembled and when the Convention is not in session, in the International Officers duly elected by the delegates or appointed in accordance with the laws herein provided.

Article 5 Section 3. Eligibility

None but duly accredited delegates to the Convention and those prohibited from acting as local union representatives by reason of their being present in the Convention as members of the General Executive Board, the Board of Trustees and AFL-CIO Delegates of this Alliance shall be eligible to election to any office of this Alliance.

No delegate or International Officer shall be nominated to office unless attending the Convention or unless his written consent to be a candidate shall first be filed with the Registry Clerk of the Election Board ....

Section 11. Special Contracts

The International President shall be empowered, whenever he shall deem it necessary or expedient, to issue special contracts, or to authorize the making of such contracts for traveling attractions or any other employer or employers of members of the Alliance. "Special Contracts" shall include any contract covering the geographical jurisdiction of more than one local union.

Unless otherwise provided in this Constitution and By-Laws, this shall not be construed to affect the power of each local union to fix the scale of wages and working conditions within its jurisdiction.