1. The Union shall be known as the Communications Workers’ Union.
2. The registered Head Office of the Union shall be at 575 North Circular Road, Dublin 1 or at such other place as the National Executive Council of the Union may from time to time decide. The General Secretary shall notify the Registrar of Friendly Societies of any change of address within 14 days.
3. The objects of the Union shall be, in general, the organisation of employees in the Communications Industry and any other employments as determined from time to time by the National Executive Council, in particular:
(a) To promote the interests of the Members in regard to remuneration and conditions of service generally;
(b) To arrange for the regulation of the relations between employers and employed and between workers and workers;
(c) To provide benefits to the Members of the Union in accordance with its Rules;
(d) To arrange for the education of its Members in social, industrial and political affairs;
(e) To promote the extension of cooperative production and distribution;
(f) To arrange for the establishment, or carrying on, or participation, directly or indirectly, in the business of printing or publishing a general newspaper or papers, or of books, journals, pamphlets or other publications or the establishment and use of electronic communications systems or of any kind of undertaking industrial or otherwise for the purpose of furthering the interests of the Union or its Members or of Trade Unionism generally;
(g) To promote the furtherance of, or participation, directly or indirectly, in the work of any organisation local, national or
international, any or all of the objects of which are similar to those of the Union;
(h) To acquire property both real and personal for any lawful purpose or any manner by way of purchase, mortgage, lease, devise, gift or prescription and to sell, mortgage, exchange, let or otherwise dispose of said property;
(i) To enter into arrangements for federation, affiliation, union of interest or the acceptance of any transfer of engagements from any other Union or Unions to aid any similar organisation and to merge or amalgamate with any other Trade Union or Trade Unions and to transfer all or any of its property or assets to any Trade Union created by such merger or amalgamation;
(j) To regulate the relations and settle disputes between the Union and its Members or between any Member or Members and other Members of the Union;
(k) To secure and assist in securing legislation and more effective administration of existing and future laws which may affect the general and material welfare of the Members of the Union or Members of Trade Unions in general;
(l) To do all such things as permitted by law as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects or any of them or which may be deemed advisable in the interests of its Members or calculated directly or indirectly to benefit the Union or any of the Members thereof;
(m) To establish funds of the Union to be applied for the purpose of furthering these objects and defraying the working and other expenses of the Union;
(n) To ensure full equality in all aspects of employment opportunity and to oppose discrimination on any such grounds as colour, ethnic or national origins, politics, race, religion or sex;
(o) To make contributions at the absolute discretion of the National Executive Council from the Central Fund of the Union, of such sums of money to any party political, or any political party or parties in the furtherance of political objects, other than those as set out in the Trade Union Act 1913, for the purposes of the furtherance of the aims of the Union.
4. The Union shall make an annual return on Form AR21 before 1st June to the Registrar of Friendly Societies, giving an account of the financial affairs of the Union, together with details of Membership, Rules and Rule changes and such other details of information as may be requested by the Registrar.