EC Meeting July 2017

Gibraltar General & Clerical Association – Rules & Constitution

3.2

(1) Working Members shall as far as possible belong to such Sector of the Union appropriate to their unit of employment as may be determined by the GGCA Executive Committee. Where membership in any employment unit is large enough to allow designated Employer Based Sector organisation, Members shall be allocated to the Sector.

(2) Unemployed Members and Retired Members shall be allocated to a Sector as may be determined by the GGCA Executive Committee.

(3) If any question shall arise as to which Sector is appropriate in relation to any member or group of members, the question shall be determined by the GGCA Executive Committee. 3.3 Except in the special circumstances of any particular case there shall be for all Sectors a Sector Committee elected and responsible for the affairs of the Sector. Sector Committees shall be constituted as specified in Appendix II, and will be responsible to the GGCA Executive Committee. The GGCA National Secretary shall act as Secretary to each Sector Committee.

SECTOR DUTIES

3.4 Sectors shall exercise delegated authority in matters of policy affecting Sector members only insofar as no policy shall be implemented which is in conflict with these Rules or policy laid down by the GGCA Executive Committee. In the event of any conflict the matter shall be referred to the GGCA Executive Committee for a decision.

Sectors shall have duties:

(1) to maintain and or improve the conditions of employment of Sector members and the relations between them and their employers. For this purpose Sector Committees may, with the authority of the GGCA Executive Committee, appoint members to joint negotiating and consultative bodies in relevant companies according to Sector Rules;

(2) to promote the policy of the Union as agreed by the GGCA Executive Committee;

(3)

to further the objects of the Union;

(4]

without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing:

(a)

to carry out the policies of the Union as determined in accordance with these Rules;

(b)

to protect and promote the interests of its members;

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