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[Guest scott]

can a bargaining committee meet with a group of members to discuss monetary issues in a memmorandum of aggeement without informing and inviting all members?

[hmtcastle]

can a bargaining committee meet with a group of members to discuss monetary issues in a memmorandum of aggeement without informing and inviting all members?

A committee is free to invite or exclude non-members (of the committee) to its meetings.

[Tim Wynn]

can a bargaining committee meet with a group of members to discuss monetary issues in a memmorandum of aggeement without informing and inviting all members?

I assume you're talking about informing and inviting persons who are not members of the committee. No rule in RONR requires that any nonmembers of a committee be informed of or invited to a committee meeting. See RONR(10th ed.), p. 483, l. 30-36.

[Gary Novosielski]

can a bargaining committee meet with a group of members to discuss monetary issues in a [memorandum] of [agreement] without informing and inviting all members?

Yes.

Ultimately, of course, there will have to be a report of the committee to the membership, and a ratification vote by the full membership. But before that happens, there's no rule in RONR that would preventing a committee from gaining information from whatever sources it deems useful, in the nature of getting its ducks in a row.

That's especially true if the MoA hasn't actually been finalized yet. It would probably be a mistake to spread the contents around widely, when it could change later.

That's why negotiations are typically handled by a committee. If you tried to negotiate with the whole membership, you'd never reach agreement.