ARTICLE 14 NATIONAL UNION OF PUBLIC AND GENERAL EMPLOYEES (NUPGE)

14.1 Affiliation

14.1.1 The Union shall be affiliated to the National Union of Public and General Employees.

14.2 Convention Delegates

14.2.1 For the purpose of filling the Union's delegate entitlement to the NUPGE Convention, the President, 1st Vice-President and the NUPGE VicePresident shall be automatic delegates The delegate credentials for the President and NUPGE Vice-President will be drawn over and above the overall numbers of delegates. The 1st Vice-President delegate credentials will come out of the Sector entitlements from which they derive, displaced credential will be sent as an observer. The remaining delegate entitlement shall be proportionally distributed among the sectors.

14.2.2 Each Sector/Local shall be responsible for developing the guidelines for nomination and election/selection of their delegates and alternates to the NUPGE Convention. Each sector shall be entitled to at least one (1) delegate and shall forward the respective names to the Provincial office staff assigned the coordination of NUPGE Convention.

14.3 NUPGE Convention Resolutions

14.3.1 The Provincial Council shall request the Sectors to submit proposed resolutions for consideration at the NUPGE Convention. This request shall allow for time to discuss the resolutions in the Sectors prior to submission to the Provincial Council.

14.3.2 Those resolutions for the NUPGE Convention that are submitted to the SGEU Annual Convention must receive support of the SGEU Convention in order to be forwarded to the NUPGE Convention. The Provincial Council shall also be empowered to deal with resolutions which Sectors or the Provincial Council wish to have considered for the NUPGE Convention.

14.3.3 Resolutions for the NUPGE Convention, sanctioned by the SGEU Convention and/or by Provincial Council, shall be endorsed by the SGEU President and the NUPGE Vice-President and forwarded by the President or designate.