Issue No 42 | 17 December 1999 | |
NewsRule Changes to Restructure Council
The NSW Labor Council will alter its controversial property rule and restructure its leadership under proposed rule changes to be taken to its February 2000 Annual General Meeting.
Under the changes proposed by the Secretary the current rule allowing any seven affiliates to veto any property transaction, would be qualified by the requirement that those seven must represent 25 per cent of all affiliated unions. The change follows the use of the veto rule this year to frustrate the planned development of Labor Council's Pittwater property. While 90 per cent of affiliates backed the proposal, several small unions used their veto power to block the plans. A restructured deal was later approved, but Secretary Michael Costa flagged at the time that it would prompt a review of the seven union rule. "I think the whole Currawong highlighted the absurdity of a set of rules that were put together in the thirties to stop people seizing control of 2KY applied to other property assets," Costa says. "If the Labor Council is going to operate effectively and ,manage the resources of affiliates it needs some flexibility." The rule changes also sees a restructure - with an optional deputy secretary position and the creation of three assistant secretary positions with specialist responsibility for organising, community affairs and industrial issues. And there is also a proposed change to the Council's objects which would formally loosen ties with the ACTU; by replacing the requirement "to uphold the policies of the ACTU" with an object to: "participate in the national affairs of the National Trade Union Movement through the processes of the ACTU and other bodies with similar objectives. While Costa denied it's a distancing, he says the change reflects the diverse responsibilities held by the Council. "While we support the policies of the ACTU, we also do more than that," he says. "We initiate policies, we have international relationships ourself and we have national obligations as well."
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