What About "Members Vote"?

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If you're a current member, you've probably heard more about the "Members Give" campaign than about this bylaw change. But Central thinks burying it in the Board pack is adequate notice to membership of this fundamental economic restructuring. Asking us for our money while actively avoiding asking us for our votes, is insulting.

Response to VP of Capital & Finance's Statement

A Board that has no commitments to cooperative democracy beyond the bare minimum legal requirements, cannot be expected to withstand continued temptation to choose professionalization over cooperation.There is a much easier way to act in the membrship's interests: Let us vote.

What About "Members Vote"?

Issue #2: Changes to Member Voting Rights

This provision would effectively give the incumbent Board the ability to veto house-level elections of Board Directors, unless a reform caucus is able to win an outright majority of Board seats in one fell swoop. And if that does happen, the new majority can easily purge the incumbent minority.

What About "Members Vote"?

This Should Require a Referendum

We have a bylaw intended to stop Board from changing the composition of Board or member voting rights without a member referendum. At least that's what the Executive Director told us in 2015.