Hi Forum,
1) Can someone point to the page in the 11th Edition where it states that motions take effect the moment they are approved unless there is language in the motion that states otherwise?
2) I belong to a union where the Body approved a motion (on July 8th 2015) directing the Local's President to go to the bank and to sign the union's signatory cards so that he can execute union checks; up to then over the first 2 1/2 years of his administration, he refused to sign the signatory cards and no bank checks. Six (6) months later (on January 13th, 2016) he got the Body in a special session to rescind / overturn the motion directing him to sign the bank signatory cards. He is now claiming that since the original motion was rescinded, his refusal to start signing checks is not now a chargeable offense and that he is not in violation of the approved motion. Others are saying that since the motion became effective immediately upon approval, he should have signed the bank signatory cards back then along with all the bank checks, and the date of the rescinding of the motion would be the date allowing him to stop signing the checks; hence he was in violation of the approved motion for the previous 6 months.
Note, the rescinding motion DID NOT make reference to any "retroactive date" or that the President was forgiven for his refusal to signing the signatory cards and bank checks upon the time the original motion was approved back in July 2015.
Who is / are correct in this scenario?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Mitchell