I’ll follow up with a bigger post hopefully, but the organization needs to raise dues because it’s bleeding membership. It’s bleeding membership thanks to the poor performance of its executive director and its board members’ consistent refusal to listen to the demands of members. They lambast criticism as defamation and plug their fingers in their ears. This is disgusting and inexcusable behavior.
The only way to get them to change direction is to vote no. Punish the association for its bad behavior and the bad behavior of the people representing it.
One of the points of my writing is that having no consequences leads to having no incentive to change. You want change? You present consequences. And the consequences of shutting properly brought motions down at the business meeting must be clear.
Tellingly, they shut down discussion of how many voting members they actually have after it was erroneously stated that there are 13,000.
If ever you needed more evidence, take this snippet from the captions of the business meeting.
Addendum:
According to a Stenonymous source, the dues increase was voted down.
This organization is worthless. I’m losing my work to digital in CA, as are most reporters. NCRA has done absolutely nothing.