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Section 1
Subject to the provisions of Article III, Section 4, the Federation is authorized to issue charters and certificates of affiliation to organizing committees and directly affiliated local unions.
Section 2
The Executive Council shall issue rules governing the conduct, activities, affairs, finances and property of organizing committees, national councils, and directly affiliated local unions, and governing the suspension, trusteeship or expulsion of such organizations. Such rules shall define the powers of the President, or his or her designee, with respect to disciplinary action against such organizations and their officers. They shall provide for notice and hearing in all cases in which such action is taken with respect to directly affiliated local unions, but shall permit emergency action (including the authority to suspend officers and establish a trusteeship over such local unions and their property) prior to hearing where in the opinion of the President the interests of the Federation so require. The rules shall further provide for appeals to the Appeals Committee of the Executive Council and shall also provide that decisions appealed from shall remain in full force and effect pending such appeals.
Section 3
Upon the dissolution, suspension or revocation of the charter or trusteeship of any such organizations, all funds and property of any character shall revert to the Federation, which to the extent appropriate shall hold such funds and property in trust until such time that the organization may be reorganized and conform with the Constitution and laws of the Federation. It shall be the duty of the officers of any such organization that has been dissolved or whose charter has been suspended or revoked, or that has been placed under trusteeship, to deliver all funds and property to the President or his or her designated representative. In the event of a failure or refusal to so deliver such funds and property, all expenses incurred by the Federation in recovering such funds and property shall be reimbursed to the Federation from the funds and property recovered.
Section 4
(a)
The Executive Council shall combine directly affiliated local unions in related fields into national or international unions, organizing committees or national councils when such action is appropriate. Any directly affiliated local union or a group of such local unions may request the Executive Council to authorize such combination.
(b) When directly affiliated local unions are grouped into an organizing committee, they shall become locals of the organizing committee. The organizing committee shall have the same status as a national or international union under this Constitution except that it shall be under the direct supervision and control of the Federation.
( c) When directly affiliated local unions are grouped into a national council, they shall remain local unions directly affiliated with the Federation.
