At the AaNA General Assembly scheduled on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM, members in attendance will vote on proposed amendments to our bylaws.
The proposed amendments would:
- Add as a core purpose of AaNA to empower nurses to collectively organize in their workplaces.
- Clarify language related to the professional association dues applicable to union members and union retirees.
- Require committee chairs to submit an annual resolution outlining the goals and objectives of their committee for the coming year.
- Remove language regarding unexcused absences of Board members (with a plan to incorporate the language into policy instead).
- Reduce the minimum number of required committee members from three to two.
- Remove language regarding evaluation of paid committee chairs (with a plan to incorporate the language into policy instead).
- Rename the Nominations Committee to the Elections Committee and eliminate language stating that members serve for two-year terms.
- Add under Labor Council Composition the ability for the immediate past chair to attend meetings in an advisory capacity with voice but without vote for a period of two years.
- Clarify language related to vacancies of bargaining unit representatives to the Labor Council.
- Clarify language related to the forwarding of professional association dues from the Labor Program to the Board of Directors.
- Add language stating in the case of discrepancies with other bylaws sections, Article VII (Labor Council) will prevail.
- Removes Districts from list of structural units, in accordance with previous vote of membership.
- Fixes various typos and grammatical errors.
All AaNA members are encouraged to attend the AaNA General Assembly. All members attending the General Assembly are eligible to vote on the proposed bylaws amendments.
The General Assembly will be held on Friday, October 17, 2025 beginning at 1:45 PM. Members may attend in-person at the BP Energy Center in Anchorage or online via Zoom. An RSVP/registration page will be available soon.