Your role as an auditor

Auditors continuously review local union activities and assignments, as well as assessing the competence, financial management, minutes and annual report of their local board.

What other roles do auditors fulfill?

  • Ensuring local union boards complying with statutes and congress decisions.
  • Reviewing verifications and ensuring they are correctly recorded.
  • Reviewing bookkeeping practices and ensure accounting accuracy.
  • Overseeing budget monitoring.
  • Ensuring the board complies with union statutes.
  • Reviewing the board's administration, decision making and implementation.
  • Reviewing annual reports, balance sheets and income statements.
  • Submitting an auditors' report and discharge of liability statement to the board, in accord with local union statutes.

How many auditors should a local union have?

Local union statutes determine how many auditors it should have. Commonly, there is one regular auditor and a deputy, or two regular auditors and one deputy. Auditors are elected at the annual meeting, usually for a term of one year.