Questions during chairman’s communications with membership.

[Guest Billy]

The chair of our union has meetings with managment about work schedules, company policy and so on. We cannot ask questions during this time. We sometimes would like to ask questions to be able to make an informed motion. After all business is done we move to 15 minute question and answer section of our union meeting.

My question is there way we can ask questions during the “ communication section” of our union meeting?

  

[rulesasker]

Are these meetings of a union you are a member of? If not it will be totally up to the that group. If you are a member of the society holding this meeting, and Robert’s rules apply and your bylaws don’t say otherwise, you can raise a request for information, but it will still be up to the person you are requesting information from to answer. 

[Joshua Katz]

Union meetings are frequently bound by laws and rules quite unlike RONR, and look very different from RONR meetings. So I'm not sure how much help we can give you here.

If it is the case that the president is "meeting" with management, then anyone not a member of the body that is meeting would have no right to participate. But you also mention that you'd like to make informed motions, so perhaps it is not the case that the rank and file are not members. Can you explain a bit more how this all happens, procedurally? When would you be making motions? Before or after the meeting with management?