MPWU Constitution states the duties of position are:
: It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all
Conventions and meetings of the Executive Board.
The President shall submit to the Editor
an article for publication in the
Michigan
Messenger six (6) times a year. The President shall be a member of all
Committees. The President shall appoint necessary Committees at each Convention.
The President shall fill all vacancies, for any cause whatsoever, until such
vacancy is filled by an election. The President shall have as one of his/her
primary responsibilities of organizing and administering the MPWU Legislative
program. The President shall be the Chairman of the Organizing Committee. The
President shall submit to each convention a written report of the President’s
official acts during his/her term of office. The President shall sign all orders
of the Secretary-Treasurer and shall approve no more than five (5) days,
per month per person of lost
time. When the President approves actual lost time in excess of five (5) days, a
full explanation of its use shall be made at the following Executive Board
meetings. The President shall have jurisdiction over the functions of the
Officers of this Union. The President shall
retain a master set of this Constitution and these By-Laws, show the latest
amendments and have the same available to all Conventions and meetings of the
Executive Board.
It shall be the duty of the President to appoint four local Presidents or
designee, not on the Executive Board, with one of them being the
Secretary-Treasurer to a Budget Committee. This committee shall meet no later
than the second week in March. The sole purpose for this committee shall be to
create a budget recommendation to be presented to the Executive Board for
modification if necessary and approval
