The thirty-sixth annual AFA-CWA Board of Directors Meeting was held in Milwaukee. To report the results of that meeting, our Next Generation Committee came up with the idea of this website.
They wanted to improve upon our ability to provide a timely report on the issues taken up by their elected representatives at the AFA-CWA Board of Directors Meeting. They wanted to ensure the Agenda Items, Resolutions, and ultimate decisions were made available to you, as well as how individual representatives voted on the issues.
If you go to the "
Compilation of Actions," you'll find a listing of all the delegates present, and the full text of all issues decided. If all you want to see is the final result, this document lists all of the Agenda Items, resolutions, and the voting that took place.
For more details, see each individual Agenda Item.
Since the primary business of the Union is conducted through Agenda Items, each of these are listed individually. If you click on any one of them, you will arrive at a page with four tabs: (1) the original "Agenda Item" as it was proposed; (2) the "Revisions" made during debate/discussion; (3) the "Status" at the time of the vote; and (4) the "Voting" that tells you how the vote was conducted.
If you prefer to "cut to the chase," go right to the Status tab. This will identify the Subject, the entire Resolution, and whether the vote was by Voice vote or a Division of the House. In parliamentary procedure, most votes are determined by a voice vote with each delegate having one vote and delegates voting Yes or No. Normally, this is sufficient to determine the will of the majority. When the sound of Yes's and No's is not clear enough, there will be a division of the House to count the Yes's and No's. In neither case is the vote of an individual recorded. All votes conducted at this BOD Meeting were by either Voice or Division of the House.
In the event of a Rollcall, each delegate has the number of votes as determined by the number of active members. Because each delegate has a different number of votes, this type of vote is recorded.
As an example, click on
Agenda Item #21, which was the agenda item that resulted in this website.
In addition, please see the
Resolutions. These are additional decisions made by your elected leaders. All of these were adopted by a voice vote.
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions about this new website, please do not hesitate to contact me (
kcreighan@afanet.org).
In Solidarity,
Kevin P Creighan
International Secretary-Treasurer
Association of Flight Attendants - CWA, AFL-CIO
