Saturday, November 07, 2015

CUNA AND THIS ISSUE OF CHOICE....



It's kind of intriguing to watch the folks at CUNA - who frequently put themselves forward as significant cooperative leaders of the Free World [that's why they had to jaunt down to Cuba] - struggle and squirm with the principle of CHOICE for America's credit unions.


After all isn't the...


 FIRST COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE:
VOLUNTARY MEMBERSHIP?

and the...

SECOND COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE:
DEMOCRATIC MEMBER CONTROL?


As CUNA's own member survey, CUNA's Task Force Report, and Diana Dykstra have publicly confirmed. America's credit unions want...
It's the principled thing to do.

Yet CUNA and many of the Leagues continue to wiggle and squirm. The "reasons" against CHOICE, increasingly appear "suspect" - or at least cooperatively "unprincipled".

The opponents of voluntary membership and democratic control within "The System®"
are having a tough time removing "the strong whiff of self-interest" which appears to color their arguments; and, making a "principled" case for coercion is like "trying to nail Jell-o to a wall".

But "the game is not up yet" as we head toward
next week's AACULE Summit at the Four Seasons and the "now or never" CUNA Board meeting in December. 

There is still time for CUNA to try and repackage our principles...


Yep, there sure appears to be a lot of "wiggle room" left in 
"THE SYSTEM®"!!!


1 comment:

Tony Costanzo said...

The more these highly compensated folks advocate for self interest the less they have to advocate for the System. The present System works just fine for them. As for the rest of us we must continue to advocate for ourselves. Not just salary is at stake for these folks, but the travel budgets, golf club memberships, country club memberships and now learning from WesCorpFCU - these really kewl Siravo SERP (Senior Executive Retirement Plans). WesCorp FCU CEO Bob Siravo pulled down a nice fat $6M SERP. Don't take my word for it - check with CCUL CEO Diane Dykstra - she was a WesCorp FCU Board of Director. What's in her SERP? Bet it could buy a lot of Jell-o!