AAA to Conduct Ballot Count May 19, 2014 at Brooklyn Marriott Hotel: Observers Allowed

The American Arbitration Association (AAA) will conduct the count in the Local 100 TA/OA contract ratification vote on Monday, May 19, 2014, at the Marriott Hotel,  333 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. 

The count will be conducted in the Robinson and Whitman Rooms. It is expected to begin mid to late morning. TWU Local 100 representatives will be in the hotel lobby to direct members interested in observing the count to the correct location.

Members in good standing who wish to observe the count are welcome.  Following are some basic rules for the count that AAA and TWU Local 100 will enforce to insure an orderly and democratic process:

1.  Members will be permitted to observe the vote counting process, but they may not interfere with it.  Any person who disrupts the vote count will be immediately ejected.
2.  Members who are acting as observers will be permitted to be in the hotel room where the count is being held for no longer than thirty minutes at a time, so as to permit as many Members access to the room as possible.
3.  Up to ten members at a time will be permitted in the hotel room on a first come first served basis.  A sign up sheet will be set up outside the hotel room. 
4.  Local 100 Officers and Staff will be permitted access to the hotel room as well.
5.  The use of cameras, cell phones, and other electronic devices etc., may be limited by AAA or as circumstances dictate.  No use of any of the listed devices will be permitted if such use causes a disturbance or interferes in any way with the vote count.