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| 795.1 | | PATE::MACNEAL | ruck `n' roll | Fri Mar 25 1994 12:02 | 7 |
| �o DCU employees are also members of DCU and hold interest in election outcomes.
� However, due to their position, and member confidence, no DCU employee should
� communicate a candidate preference by distribution of campaign materials or
� recommendation.
Question for discussion: Should this also apply to current board
members?
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| 795.2 | | CVG::THOMPSON | Mud season has arrived | Fri Mar 25 1994 13:19 | 17 |
| Good question. In the past we've had people criticize Supervisory
Committee members for recommending appointment to that committee.
We've also seen Board members recommend other candidates for the board.
My feeling is that people do not give up their right to make
independent recommendations just because they win election or accept
appointment to a board or committee. So no, I don't think it should
apply to current board members. But, BTW, I think that it is ok for
DCU employees who are members to make recommendations.
However, I believe that Board members or employees must make it very
clear by what and how they say it that their recommendation is theirs
and that they do not speak for the DCU or it's board. That means no
handing things out in the branches of course. It also means that they
should make it explicit in what they say or hand out that they are not
acting in an official role.
Alfred
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| 795.3 | DCU employees have rights too | MONTOR::KYZIVAT | Paul Kyzivat | Fri Mar 25 1994 17:01 | 11 |
| > DCU employees are also members of DCU and hold interest in election outcomes.
> However, due to their position, and member confidence, no DCU employee should
> communicate a candidate preference by distribution of campaign materials or
> recommendation.
I don't think this is reasonable. (Does this mean that a DCU employee may
not make a recommendation to a family member?) What is reasonable is to
control how, where, and when it is done. It appears that the bylaws are
reasonable in this regard (if they were obeyed).
Paul
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| 795.4 | Hardly fair play | TOHOPE::REESE_K | Three Fries Short of a Happy Meal | Fri Mar 25 1994 17:09 | 15 |
| Paul,
I agree it might be unreasonable to expect a DCU employee not to
discuss/recommend to a family member; however this is a far cry
from standing in a DCU office handing out materials for "selected"
candidates and making statements "I recommend/we recommend" to DCU
members standing in line waiting to complete their transactions.
FWIW I was in the DCU office as this was happening. What concerned
me the most was the comment by a DCU member who made it clear he was
not following the election, but as long as the DCU employee assured
him that non of the people mentioned on her handouts were involved
in the embezzlement he would follow that DCU employee's recommendation!
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| 795.5 | | ASE003::GRANSEWICZ | DCU Election: 3 G's -> NO FEES | Mon Mar 28 1994 00:38 | 13 |
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RE: .2
> Good question. In the past we've had people criticize Supervisory
> Committee members for recommending appointment to that committee.
Correct. In the case where this was done, Lisa Ross, ON HER OWN
asked the Supervisory Comm. for a recommendation to be issued to the
entire Board. If she wanted to personally ask them who SHE should vote
for, that is her business. But IMO she had no right to do this for the
entire Board without first having gotten our consent to do so. Also,
asking the Supervisory Comm. for a recommendation was NOT a part of the
documented process we had established.
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| 795.6 | | CVG::THOMPSON | Mud season has arrived | Mon Mar 28 1994 08:01 | 5 |
| RE: .5 I don't see the difference between that and your getting
support from Paul Kinzelman. In both cases the recommendation is
going to the group that will vote on the job.
Alfred
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| 795.7 | | PACKED::PACKED::JACKSON | DCU fees: Vote | Mon Mar 28 1994 10:14 | 16 |
| Re: .6
The difference is that in one case, an individual board member
chooses to endorse some candidates in an election that is before
the entire ownership; in the other case a duly appointed board
would be making a recommendation to another board.
The question is, should a board be making such a recommendation at
all? And, if it doesn't, should they be asked to by a member
of another board without the approval of the entire board?
I can see why Lisa would be interested in a recommendation. I can
also see why this request (although perhaps innocent enough) was
inappropriate.
Collis
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