2006 - 2011

United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the

Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada

(a) The General President and the General Secretary-Treasurer are empowered to pay all expenses of litigation on which, in their discretionary judgment, the United Association has a direct or indirect interest.

(b) The United Association is authorized to pay all the expenses for investigating services, employment of all counsel and other necessary expenditures in any cause, matter, case or cases where an officer, representative, employee, agent or one charged with acting in behalf of the United Association is charged with any violation or violations of any law or in any civil or criminal action: (1) if a majority of the General Executive Board in its sole discretion determines that said charges or law suits are (a) unfounded, or (b) politically motivated, or (c) filed in bad faith in an attempt to embarrass or destroy the Union or the Union officer or representative, (2) if a majority of the General Executive Board in its sole discretion determines that the expenditures should be made.