It contains a set of rules under which you would have to abide by for as long as it was your bargaining agent. It states the union's idea of the best circumstances for its well-being. You can see for yourself that the promise of freedom to dissent from union activity and policy is greatly hedged by union control over your money. This language is vague. The dedication to preserving the union gets clearer, and more grim, when one reads the section which provides for charges, trial, conviction and punishment within the union for crimes against the union.
Discretion is so broad as to cover anything someone in the hierarchy deems offensive.
And that is not all. There is also broad discretionary power in District 65's range of penalties. Again, the language is extremely vague. Add it all up, and you have a constitution designed to preserve its power over the employees, not over the employer as some people wishfully think. Hampshire staff pride themselves on their independence of mind and self-determination.