Claim: Sometimes I was the only 'no' vote on the entire board.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

Retrieved passages:
title: Wilma B. Liebman
text: the board's decision-making ... much more divisive". She clashed repeatedly with Battista during a hearing before the House Committee on Education and Labor in December 2007, declaring "Virtually every recent policy choice by the board impedes collective bargaining, creates obstacles to union representation or favors employer interests." "Today, fewer workers have fewer rights and weaker remedies under the National Labor Relations Act," she continued. She also accused Battista and other Republican members of the Board of "narrowly casting existing precedent" and ignoring precedents "if they stand in the way of a desired result." She portrayed the majority's view of the

title: John C. Truesdale
text: a profit. In 1977, the Board had held in "Shopping Kart Food Market", 228 NLRB 1311 (1977) that elections should only be set aside only when egregious misstatements of fact occurred during election campaigning. Walther voted with other Republican-appointed Board members to uphold the election, arguing that the Board's duty to quickly certify elections was more important than its duty to assure fair elections. The "General Knit" decision overturned "Shopping Kart Food Market" and restored the Board's old rule as handed down in "Hollywood Ceramics." Truesdale provided the critical third vote in the case. Carter nominated Truesdale for a full

title: The Daily Campus
text: about the incident in his autobiography, remarking that he wished he had spoken to her privately instead of chastising her in front of the press. In 2015 the Daily Campus switched to a board composed entirely of student voters, rather than the mixture of professionals (non-students) and students that have served on the board since the seventies. The decision was made after the University threatened to take away funding from the paper. They could have potentially lost over 300,000 dollars in student fees. Fees which account for nearly 3/4s of the papers total income. Prior to the decision, the 9

title: Lost Dogs' Home
text: votes to block the election of a new director, and its refusal to answer several questions from the floor. Supporters of the unsuccessful board candidate, Georgia Murphy, sought legal advice over whether the board breached regulations by quietly reopening membership so soon before the AGM and apparently inviting people to join. Chair of the board Prue Gillies also used the hundreds of new proxy votes to block a motion to have her removed." An Extraordinary Meeting saw the Constitution amended on topics of conduct and voting rights on 13 July 2017. a. Life Members were no longer entitled to vote

title: Lottie Beebe
text: education. Beebe was the only board member who voted against White's in 2012. Beebe said that she does not rely on teacher unions for her comments, as her critics contend: "My talking points are my talking points." She questions why so many BESE votes are nine-to-two and considers her colleagues, with the exception of Democrat Carolyn Hill of Baton Rouge, another frequent dissenter, "great people" [but] "rubber stamps" for the Jindal-White educational agenda. Known for her opposition to the Common Core program, Beebe was handily unseated in the primary election held on October 24, 2015, by another Republican, Sandy Holloway,

title: Dorothy Dugger
text: the termination. However, discussion of Dugger's resignation was not included in the board meeting agenda, which violated the Brown Act. Board member Joel Keller, who opposed forcing Dugger to resign, brought in district counsel Matthew Burrows to examine the legality of the vote, and Burrows agreed that the vote was illegal. The Board later admitted to the illegality of the vote. The main reasons cited by Board members who wanted to get rid of Dugger were her poor communication skills, bad interactions with the board, poor handling of the shooting of Oscar Grant, and loss of federal funding for the

title: Alexander Gonzalez
text: his heavy use of top-down decision making. The full no confidence resolution can be found here http://www.csus.edu/acse/archive/0607/07fsm_apr_5.htm. The non-binding faculty vote would have no effect on Gonzalez's presidency, a position served under the discretion of the CSU Chancellor. The faculty vote also recommended that"the Faculty direct the Faculty Senate to develop a list which sets forth specific actions that the President must take with respect to the matters raised in this resolutions in order to restore the quality of the instructional program and the Faculty’s confidence in his leadership." Gonzalez's response to the vote created more tensions between the administration

title: Wilma B. Liebman
text: that the Board had made "some rather dramatic shifts in <nowiki>[labor]</nowiki> policy ... what this board is doing is giving much more focus to the right to refrain <nowiki>[from union organizing]</nowiki> than the underlying policy goal of encouraging collective bargaining." She was outspoken as a Member about what she perceived to be the failings of the Republican majority on the Board during her first 10 years in office. "By virtually all measures this law is derelict if not dead," she told a labor law conference in May 2007. She felt that Chair Robert J. Battista had made the "board and

title: Mary Edna Hill Gray Dow
text: by those she chose. Several among the Dover gentlemen, who desired to be on the board, said that they would not vote for a woman for president as it was simply preposterous and meant bankruptcy. But the matter was presented to the gentlemen in this form: Agree to vote for Mrs. Dow, and you can hold office; otherwise you can not. They succumbed, but with chagrin and trepidation. After her election to the presidency, her first moves as general manager were to double the insurance on the property, inaugurate a system of cash payments, thereby avoiding debts, and getting on

title: Margaret Hughes (Los Angeles)
text: women's activist Caroline Severance and 2 votes for Mrs. Hughes. In a second ballot, Mrs. Hughes received 4 votes and Smith received 3. Nevertheless, Board President Beal ruled that no election had taken place because the board's rules required five affirmative votes for such a decision, and therefore Mrs. Hughes was not seated. The next fortnight Mrs. Hughes stayed home and sent an attorney. After hearing a letter from City Attorney Charles H. McFarland that the Hughes appointment was not valid, the board decided by five votes with three abstentions to appoint William W. Hitchcock to Shafer's seat. In October

title: Kathy Hamilton
text: submit her text messages for public record; and that she had made inappropriate comments to board chairman Erin Birt at a public meeting. The censure included the following language: The censure passed with two no votes and one abstention. Among Hamilton's supporters in voting against the censure was trustee Kim Savage, who had joined Hamilton in voting no against the tuition hike earlier in 2014. Following the censure, the "Chicago Tribune" published an editorial that characterized the censure as "a teeny-bopper temper tantrum," criticized president Breuder and chairman Birt, and defended Hamilton's right to express her concerns to the media

title: John C. Truesdale
text: Although Gould was ready to cast the third and determinative vote, on the night of March 22 Usery asked him to hold off on any decision as the two parties were making progress. Concerned that Usery was too closely aligned with the owners, Gould contacted White House Counsel Abner J. Mikva. Mikva advised Gould that "nobody thinks he [Usery] can reach the players. He has lost his influence." Gould informed Truesdale, Browning, and Feinstein of his conversation with Mikva after the call. The next morning (March 23), Gould repeated Usery's request to the entire Board (but not his conversation with

title: J. Sterling Morton High School District 201
text: controller surrendered himself, and paid bail, claiming he had been suffering from a nervous breakdown brought on by the recent problems; he denied stealing from the school. The April school board election saw two new members elected to the board, with one of them becoming the new president. In the wake of the election, the North Central Association delivered a formal warning to the school, stating that while it would remain accredited, the warning was a formality required as a prelude to losing accreditation, should it be deemed necessary in a year's time. The new board followed through on a

title: Guy Otto Farmer
text: leadership of the board by saying, "Our decisions evolve from long hours of study on the part of each board member and his staff and are distilled from the crucible of full and free discussion among all board members." Although he conceded that sometimes NLRB came to the wrong decision, he argued that the board was, on the whole, fair and conscientious in doing its duty. Nonetheless, Farmer was unhappy at the NLRB. His pay at the board was a third what he had made in private practice. In May 1955, he told Sherman Adams that he did not want

title: Rice v. Cayetano
text: OHA Board of Trustees is similar to that of the water district directors, in that "the vote is for the limited purpose of electing trustees who have no governmental powers and perform no governmental purposes." Also, because Hawaiians, as defined by statute, are those disproportionately affected by the OHA, the vote for its trustees may be limited to them. Thus this exception to the 14th Amendment was used to justify the Hawaiian voting scheme under objections based on the 15th Amendment. Finally, the Court of Appeals concluded that "the voting restriction for trustees is rooted in historical concern for the

title: Owen Bieber
text: the UAW's executive board met first to select the caucus' official nominees for national office, then referred these nominees to the union's Administrative Caucus-dominated Steering Committee, which then ratified the board's choice. Delegates to the union's annual convention voted on these nominees (with no direct election by the membership). Although these procedures did not preclude the Steering Committee from rejecting the "official" slate or challengers from running for office, they made it highly unlikely that challengers would emerge or that the members would elect them if they did. (Additionally, union rules required that any challenger announce his or her candidacy

title: Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland)
text: member has full voting rights, except in certain cases. The student member of the board can vote on matters related to collective bargaining, capital and operating budgets, and school closings, re–openings and boundaries. The student member of the board cannot vote on negative personnel actions. The student member of the board is not paid, but receives a $5,000 college scholarship, student service learning hours, and one honors-level social studies credit. On November 11, 2014, the Board approved an amendment, introduced by member Rebecca Smondrowski (District 2), to modify the school calendar to remove all references to the major Christian and

title: Supermajority
text: a "majority of the entire membership" and a "majority of the fixed membership". A majority of the entire membership is a voting basis that requires that more than half of all the members of a body (including those absent and those present but not voting) vote in favor of a proposition in order for it to be passed. In practical terms, it means an absence or an abstention from voting is equivalent to a "no" vote. It may be contrasted with a majority vote which only requires more than half of those actually voting to approve a proposition for it

title: J. Sterling Morton High School District 201
text: drawing up a budget were voted on by the board, but no action was taken. When the superintendent and an independent auditor asked to examine the financial information for the district, they were refused on the grounds that the financial officer "couldn't do much without two office employees, who are ill". One of the employees named was the daughter of the board president. On December 12, the secretary of the North Central Association read a letter at the public meeting of the board stating "The standards of the school are very shaky.". When a taxpayers' group asked for the board

title: Constructive vote of no confidence
text: topple Brandt. The vote was highly influenced by tactics. To hamper their deputies from voting for Barzel in the secret ballot, the leadership of the governing parties urged its deputies not to participate in the vote; as a majority of deputies was needed for a successful vote, not participating meant in fact voting "no". Only the members of government and a few deputies of the governing parties voted, the first to ensure that dissenting deputies from CDU might remain secret. Despite this, Brandt believed he was finished, and the SPD had girded itself to be consigned to opposition. A number