That is OPTION NO. 3 in the Survey!
TCRA members, you are being GASLIT by your Board of Directors!
First, they decide to send a survey out after a big, fat secret Executive Session. Why did a survey discussion need to be done in an Executive Session? Did the BOD even know about the subject of the Executive Session before they went into the Executive Session? Maybe some on the board are being GASLIT, too!
Then the survey comes out, and the most important option, NUMBER 3, is placed at the bottom of the survey: “I am OPPOSED to Texas CSR-Oral reporters having a vote at Business Meetings of TCRA and serving on TCRA committees or the TCRA Board of Directors.”
Giving nonstenographers the ability to determine the fate and direction of TCRA is HUGE!
And they changed their name from voicewriters to a less toxic “oral reporters”!
Check this out — the last paragraph of the survey says: “Survey results may not be disclosed or disseminated to any person, business, association, or government entity for any reason unless approved by the TCRA Board of Directors. All requests for survey results must be made in writing in accordance with the Survey Result Request Guidelines.”
TCRA members will not ever even know the TRUE results of the survey!!!
Who is receiving the survey results? Who will be tabulating the results? Why won’t the survey results be published immediately? To tell you the truth, we do not trust that the survey will even be honestly counted after all of the SHENANIGANS of the Board of Directors over every aspect of this survey!
WAKE UP, TCRA!
FRANK N. SENSE
P.S. Please send this to every single member of the TCRA that you know so that they vote NO! to voicewriters having a say in TCRA, an association for stenographers, and they will also know about the dishonesty, shenanigans and GASLIGHTING going on in THEIR association by THEIR Board of Directors.
P.P.S. TCRA Board of Directors, don’t you have enough to do representing stenographers? If you have the time to do surveys, maybe it’s time for y’all to RESIGN! TCRA members are busy trying to make a living and keeping up with transcripts. We don’t have time for your dumb surveys.
Why did the Board of Directors need to go into an EXECUTIVE SESSION for 32 minutes and come out of that executive session with a MOTION to poll the membership about potentially allowing voice writers as Professional Members of TCRA? Why the big secret of an Exec Session?
FYI, the motion PASSED with ELEVEN board members approving and ONE lone abstention. Is there some bullying going on? Do some board members need to be voted off of the board because they’re pushing a crazy agenda? These are the sorts of questions that are raised when there are secret executive sessions and shenanigans happening on a board.
If you are a TCRA member, be sure to VOTE NO! in the poll!
The Texas Court Reporters Association is an organization that represents and advocates for STENOGRAPHERS. Don’t water down that representation and advocacy by adding voice writers to the mix!
Texas Court Reporters Association Board of Directors Regular Meeting
June 10, 2023 – Zoom Conference Call
8:30 a.m.
MINUTES
[Excerpted]
Motion to go into Executive Session by T.B. at 8:47am; seconded and passed with 12 in favor and 0 opposed.
Motion to go out of Executive Session by S.T. at 9:19am; seconded and passed with 12 in favor and 0 opposed.
Motion by D.T. to poll the membership about potentially allowing voice writers as Professional Members to TCRA; seconded and passed with 11 in favor and 1 abstention and 0 opposed.
Motion to adjourn by P.F. at 9:21am; motion seconded and passed with 12 in favor and 0 opposed.
WAKE UP, TCRA!
FRANK N. SENSE
P.S. Please forward this to every TCRA member that you know so they can know about the SHENANIGANS going on at their Board of Directors’ meetings, and they VOTE NO!, too.
That’s right!
Everybody on the NCRA Board should RESIGN!
The Strong Committee is the only committee of NCRA that really cares about protecting our stenographic jobs!
Go to the NCRA website and look at all of the research and facts the Strong Committee has uploaded.
Everything that the Strong Committee has done should be implemented as the Strategic Plan for NCRA for the next five years.
Recently, the Strong Committee even blew the doors off the stale Ducker Report that has been used as the backbone for many of our past “leaders” launching their lucrative new careers in competing industries under the guise of the impending shortage of steno reporters. Why hasn’t the NCRA Board even said a word about it?
RESIGN NCRA Board members!
It is our belief that NCRA’s business is simply to protect the continuation of the business of NCRA, and NOT the livelihoods of stenographic reporters.
The only way that members even have access to the board is through the buffer of NCSA. Why is NCSA even necessary? The board members are so elite and out of touch that they need a buffer from their members!
RESIGN NCRA Board members!
The current president has always been very vocal on social media in the past. He became president, and we hear radio silence. But you get to listen to his “town hall” addresses if you sign up for them. Why does the board keep their membership at arm’s length?
Please, NCRA Board, for the good of the profession, RESIGN! And let the steno reporters who care about the profession lead us into the future!
Let’s all get STRONG again!
WAKE UP, NCRA!
FRANK N. SENSE
P.S. Hmm, now we’re kind of curious about who was in leadership around the time of the Ducker Report. Whose idea was it? Why was it even necessary? How much was spent on it? Why did membership even need to pay for a report that contained one short sentence that had such a negative impact on stenographic reporters and became “manna from heaven” for so few?
P.P.S. And while we’re digging into history, what happened to all of the money from the sale of NCRA’s fully-paid-for building?
All of us here at WUNCRA are happy to let you know that the videographers were NOT SUCCESSFUL in their bid to change the bylaws of NCRA!
That’s the good news!!!
The bad news is that overheard at the convention was that the videographers are planning on submitting ANOTHER bylaw amendment next year!!! But hopefully the Board of Directors have gotten the message from the membership that they represent that enough is enough, and adding turmoil again next year will just be way over the top after two years of the same old thing.
Thank you to all of the members who were informed and voted!!!
WAKE UP, NCRA!
FRANK N. SENSE
Please make sure that you cast your vote AGAINST! videographers determining your destiny, Stenographers!!! Changing the bylaws is hard to do, but the videographers are persistent!!! If you think they are causing chaos now, imagine the damage that they will cause if we allow them full voting rights!!!
We have the power to stop this!
PLEASE VOTE AGAINST!!! … RIGHT NOW!!!
WAKE UP, NCRA!
FRANK N. SENSE
P.S. Polls close on 7/22/2022 (TODAY!) at:
10:30 a.m. Eastern Time
9:30 a.m. Central Time
8:30 a.m. Mountain Time
7:30 a.m. Pacific Time
4:30 a.m. Hawaii Time (Sorry, Hawaii! – But your votes are very important, too!)
P.P.S. If you have trouble casting your vote, send an email to: [email protected]
The polls are open!!!
We have received a number of inquiries from NCRA members about not receiving the email from NCRA with the voting link.
Please check your spam folders. If you receive the weekly email blasts from NCRA, they have your updated email address.
If you have questions, or need help voting, contact: [email protected]
But please VOTE A SOLID NO! to videographers becoming full voting members of NCRA. Please do not abstain!
There is NO REASON that videographers should be able to determine the destiny of stenographers.
Notice how the videographers have already banded together to even get these bylaws amendments to a vote – two years in a row? Aren’t you asking yourselves why? Well, all of us here at WUNCRA are wondering, too.
WAKE UP, NCRA!
FRANK N. SENSE
P.S. It’s not too late to get all of the NCRA members that you know to vote AGAINST!!! videographers horning in on the fate of stenographers. Polls are open until 10:30 a.m. Eastern time tomorrow.
P.P.S. Please vote NOW! while it’s fresh on your mind. This is very important.
VOTE NO! TO VIDEOGRAPHERS HAVING FREE REIN IN NCRA!!!
Please don’t put off this very important opportunity to VOTE!!!
Drive your own destiny!!! VOTE NO! … RIGHT NOW!!!
It will take less than a minute of your time.
WAKE UP, NCRA!
FRANK N. SENSE
P.S. Please spread the word to NCRA members that you know to VOTE NO!, too.
P.P.S. Very important!!!
Please Vote NO! on July 21 to Videographers Having a Seat in the Governance of NCRA!
The Destiny of Stenographers MUST Remain With Stenographers!
Thank you to the folks that let us know that even the Board of Directors of the Deposition Reporters Association of California oppose the proposed NCRA bylaws amendments: “… we do not feel that videographers have the same background, concerns, or vision of the future as working stenographic reporters …”
We want to reiterate that NCRA membership voted on this issue last year, and the videographers lost that election. Now they’ve tweaked the language a little bit, and here we are again. Why is the Board of Directors of NCRA putting us through this AGAIN???!
Also, please vote a solid No! and do not abstain when voting. Abstentions can muddy the waters.
Please make sure to VOTE NO! on every bylaw amendment on July 21st.
WAKE UP, NCRA!
FRANK N. SENSE
P.S. Please send this to every member of NCRA that you know so that they understand the necessity of their vote on the 21st!
P.P.S. Please place a reminder in your phone so that you remember to vote NO! on July 21st!!!
PLEASE SET A REMINDER ON JULY 21 TO VOTE NO!
TO VIDEOGRAPHERS BECOMING VOTING MEMBERS OF NCRA
The more we think about it, the more irate all of us here at WUNCRA are that the NCRA Board has allowed ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY for videographers to become voting members of NCRA. They LOST on this issue last year, and they are having another proverbial bite at the apple this year.
Why is the Board allowing this? Why must there be turmoil every single year?
Videographers are an adjunct service to stenographic court reporters. There is no reason for them to become voting members of NCRA! Videographers should not have a say in the destiny of stenographic reporters!
Every bylaw amendment that we will be voting on this year involves giving videographers the right to vote and to sit on the board of NCRA!
WE MUST VOTE NO! TO EVERY … SINGLE … BYLAW … AMENDMENT … AGAIN … ON JULY 21ST !
WAKE UP, NCRA!
FRANK N. SENSE
P.S. PLEASE! forward this post to every single NCRA member that you know so that they understand the importance of their vote this year.
P.P.S. Please place a reminder in your phone’s calendar to make sure that you vote NO! on July 21 to videographers becoming voting members of NCRA!
NCRA NEEDS YOUR E-MAIL INFO BY TOMORROW, JULY 8, SO THAT YOU CAN VOTE
NO!
TO VIDEOGRAPHERS BECOMING FULL VOTING MEMBERS OF NCRA
According to the main videographer relentlessly pushing her agenda – year after year – to give videographers full and unfettered access to the governance of NCRA, the videographers have been dedicating additional work to educate and persuade STENOGRAPHERS to vote in favor of these ill-conceived bylaws. She thinks that the only reason it didn’t pass last year is because of the number of abstentions. Please, let’s send her the message loud and clear that the reason is simply that we don’t want videographers having a say in the destiny of Stenographic Court Reporters!
The stuff that they say is misinformation is not misinformation at all. If the videographers get the vote and they can band together like they’ve been doing the last few years, it is a reasonable assumption that they can and will replace stenographers!
Once the rules are changed, anything can happen! And things that you cannot imagine occurring, will occur.
All of us here at WUNCRA believe that every single stenographic reporter member of NCRA can become certified videographers. We also know that very few videographers can become Stenographic Court Reporters!
Just because you like a particular videographer is not a good enough reason to vote in favor of these bylaws changes.
THERE IS NO REASON THAT VIDEOGRAPHERS NEED TO SIT ON THE BOARD OF NCRA!
END OF STORY!
WAKE UP, NCRA!
FRANK N. SENSE
P.S. Please send this to every member of NCRA to make sure that they are registered to vote NO! to videographers becoming voting members, directors and presidents of NCRA!