some of their routes, because they don't know what to expect on Monday. So it's a really iffy situation and people don't know what to expect. Q: Are the current conditions putting some of the you have made at risk? KK: I think that Bena's point about the local union reducing the size of the budget for the women's committee, cutting $4,000 from the budget, is an indication that that means they expect that the women's committee is going to reduce their activities, it's going to change what they're doing. There won't be as much money for the local to do the things that it's been doing, so it'll have an impact. I don't think the women's committee has figured out yet where that $4,000 is going to be removed. If they just cut it off the top of the budget and said, you figure it out, then I guess the committee will have to do that. BP: Also the worry of the job and the worry of all the economic conditions and everything, people don't really want to participate in other activities as readily as they would when times are better. So that could have an impact too in trying to get some of the members to start looking at coming to women's committees. So they do definitely have ?? So a lot of us who are actively running the women's committee are going to be retiring so that may have an impact. The committee may not even exist if the younger generation doesn’t pick up, so that is another issue that we may face. I know that if I'm not pushing or Karen is not pushing, the women's committee almost dies. So you need somebody that keeps it going and you need somebody to pick up the phone and call people and do something let's get together, let's organize some of this. It's definitely an impact. – Q: How many are on the women's committee? KK: The way the local bylaws are structured, and we wrote them, is that we have standing committees in the local and in a specific month of the year we elect that committee at a general membership meeting. We elect a specified number of core members, but the size of the committee is not limited in any way, but we can have that
some of their routes, because they don't know what to expect on Monday. So it's a really iffy situation and people don't know what to expect. Q: Are the current conditions putting some of the you have made at risk? KK: I think that Bena's point about the local union reducing the size of the budget for the women's committee, cutting $4,000 from the budget, is an indication that that means they expect that the women's committee is going to reduce their activities, it's going to change what they're doing. There won't be as much money for the local to do the things that it's been doing, so it'll have an impact. I don't think the women's committee has figured out yet where that $4,000 is going to be removed. If they just cut it off the top of the budget and said, you figure it out, then I guess the committee will have to do that. BP: Also the worry of the job and the worry of all the economic conditions and everything, people don't really want to participate in other activities as readily as they would when times are better. So that could have an impact too in trying to get some of the members to start looking at coming to women's committees. So they do definitely have ?? So a lot of us who are actively running the women's committee are going to be retiring so that may have an impact. The committee may not even exist if the younger generation doesn’t pick up, so that is another issue that we may face. I know that if I'm not pushing or Karen is not pushing, the women's committee almost dies. So you need somebody that keeps it going and you need somebody to pick up the phone and call people and do something – let's get together, let's organize some of this. It's definitely an impact. Q: How many are on the women's committee? KK: The way the local bylaws are structured, and we wrote them, is that we have standing committees in the local and in a specific month of the year we elect that committee at a general membership meeting. We elect a specified number of core members, but the size of the committee is not limited in any way, but we can have that
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