{"id":4615,"date":"2021-06-11T17:06:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T17:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:06:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T17:06:48","slug":"notice-on-bylaws-ratification-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/2021\/06\/11\/notice-on-bylaws-ratification-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice on Bylaws Ratification Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">June 11, 2021<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a notice concerning the upcoming vote to ratify GWC-UAW local 2110 unit\u2019s first <\/span><b>bylaws<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We have reached a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1JkR2xwvxMUL3azNLu3D84mmxz4WXIrvERQp4_ra6Qxs\/edit\">final proposal<\/a> of the bylaws after 3 weeks of receiving input from the unit including holding 6 drafting workshops for the general membership. The bylaws are the rules which govern how the union is to be run, and outline the different roles and responsibilities of various union officials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Interim Elections Committee will host two informational town halls next week to answer any questions or clarifications on the proposed bylaws before the voting period starts. Join the sessions next week:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monday, June 14, 7pm, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZAtce6trzIoHdEzxIin7qUE6jrkkHyZjRVl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">click here to register<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuesday, June 15, 9am, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZUrdOmrrj0iGNwFivZZzzBIC9q4xdVD5oqj\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">click here to register<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A vote for ratifying the unit bylaws will start on <\/span><b>Saturday, June 19th at 9:00 AM EST and end on Saturday, July 3rd at 9:00 PM EST<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, via electronic voting. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ballot for our vote on the bylaws will have the following two components:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, we will have an up or down vote on the entire text of the bylaws. The final copy of the proposed bylaws text is attached.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second, we will have an up or down vote on a specific proposal: a change in the name of our union from the \u2018Graduate Workers of Columbia\u2019 to the \u2018Student Workers of Columbia\u2019.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 11, 2021 This is a notice concerning the upcoming vote to ratify GWC-UAW local 2110 unit\u2019s first bylaws. We have reached a final proposal of the bylaws after 3 weeks of receiving input from the unit including holding 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4616,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions\/4616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}