Constitution - Teamsters Local 399

ART. XII, SEC. 2
ing committee, or its duly authorized subcommittee, is
not acceptable because not reasonably consistent with,
or such employer insists on terms and conditions which
are unacceptably inferior to, the standards set forth in a
master agreement already approved as a result of votes
conducted under this Section among all involved
employees, including that employer’s own involved
employees, the negotiating committee, as agent of the
Local Unions involved, may reject such proposal as contrary
to the best interests of all involved employees. Such
negotiating committee may, with the approval of the
General Executive Board, authorize a strike of such
employer’s involved employees to maintain existing
standards, attain approved standards, or to protest unfair
labor practices of such employer, without any additional
vote.
Strike votes shall not be required in any case where a
collective bargaining agreement then in existence authorizes
such strike for the purpose of enforcing the terms of
such agreement. Nor shall a strike vote be required in support
of demands that an employer agree to the terms and
conditions of an agreement already negotiated and
approved on a state, multi-state, multi-employer, national,
company-wide, or area basis of which unit such employer
is a member. In such case, the negotiating committee, subject
to the approval of the General President, may call the
strike in support of its position, and may also, with the
approval of the General President, terminate such strike
without a vote.
If it should appear to the negotiating committee that
the process of ratifying by mail referendum ballot a final
offer of settlement of a proposed master agreement
involving more than one Local Union while a strike is in
progress, which final offer carries a recommendation for
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