SECTION 1. (a) Effective January 1, 1978, the minimum monthly dues for membership in the Transport Workers Union shall be two times the hourly wage rate on the first day of the dues month, or $10.50, whichever is greater. For members on a monthly pay base, the hourly wage rate shall be arrived at by dividing the monthly pay by 173.3. (b) The hourly wage rate and the monthly pay shall include cost-of-living allowances and longevity pay, but shall exclude overtime and shift differentials. (c) No member shall be required by the provisions of paragraph (a) above to pay a monthly dues rate during any one calendar year more than Four Dollars above his/her monthly dues date in effect on December 31, of the previous year, except to the extent that the increase above Four Dollars results from promotional, or longevity increases, or from a step-up in a wage scale. The International Executive Council shall have the authority to grant the petition of a Local Union to retain the Two Dollar limitation where, in the judgment of the Council, the good of the Union requires it. The International Administrative Committee is authorized and empowered to substitute, for the individual hourly rate of each member, the average or the weighted average or other reasonable equivalent of the hourly rates of any group of members in a bargaining unit, or Local Union unit, or any other appropriate unit basis. Such action of the Committee shall be effective as of the date fixed by the Committee but shall be subject to review by the International Executive Council at its next succeeding meeting.

SECTION 2. An initiation fee or rate of dues / in excess of the minimums specified in SECTION 1 above may be established only by a by-law provision.

SECTION 3. Effective January 1, 1982, the per capita tax payable for each calendar month, by each Local to the International Union shall be thirty (30%) percent of the total of dues and agency shop fees received by the Local in each such month, and shall be forwarded to the International Secretary-Treasurer on or before the tenth (10th) day of the following month. Where implementation of this Section would require an increase, in any calendar year, of more than two percentage points in the per capita payments in the previous calendar year, such increase shall be limited to two percentage points.

SECTION 4. (a) Any member who is prevented by illness, injury, or lay-off from earning any wages in a calendar month shall be excused from paying dues for such month and such nonpayment shall not affect his good standing. For the purposes of this paragraph, the word “Wages” shall be construed to include any monetary compensation, totaling seventy-five “(75%)” percent or more of the member’s regular monthly income from his/her employment, payable to an ill or injured worker under applicable law, and/or pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement. In order to be excused, such member shall be required to file with his/her Local Financial Secretary-Treasurer a request for exoneration on the official form supplied by the International Secretary-Treasurer. The exoneration shall not be effective unless and until approved and countersigned by the Local Financial Secretary-Treasurer, and approved by the Local Executive Board. A substitute exoneration procedure may be adopted in any Local whose method of collecting and crediting dues payment makes a substitute procedure more practical or more efficient, provided that the substitute procedure is approved by the International Administrative Committee. (b) After three consecutive months’ approved exoneration because of lay-off, a laid-off member shall be required to pay his/her dues to retain his/her good standing membership, or to accept an honorary withdrawal card. After twelve consecutive months’ approved exoneration because of illness or injury, any such ill or injured member shall be required to pay his/her dues to retain his/her good standing membership, or to accept an honorary withdrawal card. A member shall not be considered to be in good standing during any period for which he/she holds an honorary withdrawal card. (c) Each exonerated member shall be listed by name, together with the reason for the exoneration on the monthly report of the Local Financial Secretary- Treasurer to the International Secretary-Treasurer.

SECTION 5. When any Local Union fails to report and remit to the International Secretary-Treasurer the full amount of initiation fees and dues and International assessments as provided for herein, the International Secretary-Treasurer shall notify the Local President and the Local Recording Secretary of the fact, and failing to receive a satisfactory response within thirty (30) days thereafter, the International Administrative Committee may suspend such Local Union. The International Secretary- Treasurer may publish and distribute a delinquent list of all such Local Unions so suspended.

SECTION 6. Local Unions placed on the delinquent list shall not be reinstated until they have filed all delinquent reports and have complied with any penalties prescribed by the International Executive Council.

SECTION 7. Should any Local Union fall more than sixty (60) days in arrears in the payment of its per capita tax, the International Administrative Committee shall have the authority to, and may require, those employers which deduct and forward employee dues and agency shop fees to such Local, to pay over the monies so deducted to the International Secretary- Treasurer. The International Secretary-Treasurer shall retain the per capita tax payable on such monies and all or part of the balance at his/her discretion until the Local’s indebtedness to the International has been satisfied. Thereafter, the International Secretary- Treasurer shall pay over to the Local the amount periodically received from the employers, less the applicable per capita tax. The International Administrative Committee may restore the payment of the dues and agency shop fees by the employers directly to the Local upon receipt of satisfactory assurances that the Local will meet its per capita obligations as they fall due.

SECTION 8. The International Executive Council shall have the power to relieve a Local Union or its members from the obligations or any of them imposed by this Article where the Council considers such relief necessary or advisable for the good of the Union.