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COMMITMENT TO PRIVATE SECTOR ORGANIZING

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The 16th APWU convention on Thursday August 15 adopted a new formula for funding private- sector organizing, passing a resolution that President William Burrus had described the most important issue placed before the union’s highest ranking body. After spirited floor debate, the delegates adopted the Constitution Committee’s Resolution 12A, which provides continued funding for external organizing by taking percentage of future national and local dues increases. Under the APWU Constitution, dues increase automatically when postal workers’ negotiated salaries are increased.

President Burrus speaks from the floor in support of private sector organizing photo by Stuart Elliott

“This is the union’s most important endeavor over the course of this convention,” Burrus said early in Thursday’s proceedings. “The union has an obligation to its members and to our country to organize the unorganized – wherever they are.” Burrus then took to the floor to speak on the matter as a delegate, the first to do so on Resolution 12A. He asked the full delegation to remain unified whatever the outcome, but added, “If we are to come together as a union, there is no better issue than this around which to do so.”

The resolution was necessary from a practical point of view, Burrus said. “From this day forward, we can organize the appropriate way.” “We can do it efficiently ... We can do it without threatening the existence of anyone in this union.” After talking from the floor, Burrus returned to the podium. A vote was then taken on whether he should be permitted to chair the debate after having spoken from the floor. Despite winning the right to do so, he stepped aside and asked Executive Vice President Cliff Guffey to chair the debate on Resolution 12A. The debate evoked passion on both sides.

The teller vote count was 1,768 in favor, 849 opposed. A two-thirds majority of convention d e l e g a t e s ’ votes is required to amend the APWU Constitution. Resolution 12A passed with just 24 votes to spare. (--APWU press service)