ARTICLE VIII- ADMINISTRATION
Section 1. The administration of the affairs of the Union is vested in the Board.

Section 2. The Executive Director is the chief administrative officer of the Union. The Executive Director is authorized to employ such staff as may be required to administer the affairs of the Union, subject to the financial ability of the Union.

Section 3. Every person who holds any office in the Union and every employee of the Union (other than an employee performing exclusively clerical or custodial services) shall file a report at Headquarters within sixty (60) days of the beginning of the fiscal year listing and describing, for the one (1)-year period beginning October 1, of the previous year:
(a) All stocks, bonds, securities, accounts receivable, or other interests held directly or indirectly by such person or employee or his or her spouse or minor child in any company doing business with the Union and any income or other benefit with monetary value derived directly or indirectly by such person or employee or his or her spouse or minor child from any company doing business with the Union.
(b) All bonds, securities, or other interests which such person or employee or his or her spouse or minor child directly or indirectly held in, and any income or other benefit of monetary value which such person or employee or his or her spouse or minor child derived directly or indirectly from, any governmental agency whose employees the Union represents or seeks to represent, except payments and benefits received as an employee of such governmental agency, unemployment compensation, workers compensation, and other benefits to which such person or Union employee is entitled by law.
(c) Any financial transaction in which such person or employee or his or her spouse or minor child engaged, directly or indirectly, with a governmental agency whose employees the Union represents or seeks to represent, other than financial aspects of those relationships exempted in subsection (b) of this Section. Stocks, bonds, securities, and interests registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, or the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, need not be listed. The form for use in filing the reports shall be furnished by Headquarters to each such officeholder and employee in September of each year.

Section 4. Members of the negotiating team are the Executive Director, or designee, the members chosen to sit at the bargaining table, and the staff assigned to sit at the bargaining table. Responsibility for presentation to the Union's negotiating team of demands, proposals, and other material to be considered in collective bargaining contract negotiations lies with the active membership. Once negotiations have commenced, authority to make decisions at the bargaining table on behalf of the Union and the employees it represents, whether decisions to submit a proposal, change a proposal, withdraw a proposal, accept a counterproposal, or otherwise, shall lie with the negotiating team in accordance with what reasonably appears at the time to be in the best interests of the Union and the employees it represents.

Section 5. Unless otherwise required by law or unless otherwise agreed at the bargaining table, ratification of any contract may be limited to voting only by active members of the Union and may be conducted by either a printed secret ballot sent or delivered to active members in the bargaining unit or by vote of the active members at a membership meeting after reasonable advance notice specifying the date, time, place, and purpose of the meeting. The method of ratification to be used in any particular situation shall be determined by majority vote of the negotiating team.

Section 6. As used in the Union's Constitution and Bylaws, "secret ballot" means the expression by ballot, voting machine, or otherwise, but in no event by proxy, of a choice with respect to any election or vote taken upon any matter, which is cast in such manner that the person expressing such choice cannot be identified with the choice expressed.