At its April 24 meeting, the DC 37 Delegates Council rejected two proposed amendments to the union’s constitution.
One would have prohibited bloc voting by local delegations in elections of DC 37 officers. The other would have doubled the number of delegates in union locals with up to 500 members and added an extra delegate for every 1,000 members of larger union locals.
Delegates voted 91-54 for the ban on bloc voting and 90-65 to increase the number of delegates, but both votes fell short of the two-thirds required to pass a constitutional amendment.
The proposals were originally part of a single amendment recommended for approval by the Executive Board and the Laws and Rules Committee, which is chaired by Local 2054 President Joan Reed.
The delegates split it into two separate amendments at the suggestion of Jackie Beckett, president of the American Museum of Natural History Local 1559.