The CNA House of Delegates met Sept. 24 and 26 and after discussion at hearings, and debate on the floor of the House, voted on and passed a number of significant changes to our bylaws. Welfare Congress into one board of Directors. This will have the practical effect of merging oversight of the collective bargaining program with the fiduciary responsibility of budgeting for the needs of the entire Association.
Labor law prohibits statutory supervisors from influencing collective bargaining.
This means there is no longer a problem of insulation. The Regions remain intact, but for the purpose of representation on the Board, the larger regions are organized into subgroupings, with one director to represent each subgrouping. This change provides for more proportional representation on the Board. In the past. Region 3, for example, with 146 members, had one seat on the Board with one vote, and Region 12, with 3,947 members also had one seat and one vote.