HIGHEST COLLECTIVE BODY
Convention is the gathering of Local delegates and the union’s highest collective body. While it is sitting, it holds the union’s full authority within the law and the basic rights of members.
Convention is the gathering of Local delegates and the union’s highest collective body. While it is sitting, it holds the union’s full authority within the law and the basic rights of members.
Its authority comes from a visible chain: member, Local, delegate, common decision. No permanent body can place itself above Convention.
Convention adopts the Constitution, elects bodies, approves the program, roadmap and budget, and sets political direction, bargaining priorities and limits on executive power.
The program must be clear enough that members can compare what was promised with what was done. A slogan gives neither the Executive a useful assignment nor members a fair way to judge it.
A union cannot call thousands of delegates together for every quick decision. Convention therefore gives the Provincial Executive enough authority to handle daily work between Conventions.
That authority is delegated, not a new source of sovereignty. The Executive must stay within the Constitution, program, roadmap and budget.
During its sitting, Convention may decide any union matter within the law. It alone adopts the Constitution and the core rules that define power, elects the bodies assigned to it and approves the overall program and budget.
The Executive cannot later rewrite those limits for its own convenience. A procedure may explain how work is done, but it cannot contradict the Constitution.
Delegates come through Locals, and the outcome must return through them. Proposals, voting results and adopted documents must be available in language members can understand.
Convention quorum is two thirds of all elected delegates. This prevents a small attendance from speaking as though it were the whole union.
The Executive carries out the adopted program. Annual reports allow members to follow progress, and the Mid-Term Accountability Conference makes a binding decision on confidence after two years.
If confidence is lost, the Executive’s authority ends immediately, Convention Council takes temporary responsibility and prepares an Extraordinary Convention.
PE regularly publishes reports, and in the middle of the four-year term, a reporting conference is held. After reports and discussions, delegates hold one mandatory vote: trust or distrust.
If trust is lost, PE’s authority is terminated immediately. Convention Cansil assumes interim administration and prepares an extraordinary Convention, which returns the Union a new full mandate.