The executive director has the ear of every single board member. BUT he only needs to convince six of the 11 board members of the direction that he believes NCRA should go. AND membership cannot know if there are dissenters to his ideas, because he and his predecessors have convinced previous boards that if the majority agrees on an issue, the other board members must follow in lock step or be booted off the board! We are not kidding!
If he gets a fellow “bro” as a president, like he did a few years ago and this past year, things go smoothly for him. Under this (retired!) president’s past two years (president/president-elect) the VERY IMPORTANT Strong Committee was thrown out of NCRA on its ear. Now, what is one very hot topic of the day? Battling artificial intelligence. The women of the Strong Committee are light years ahead of this executive director, his bros, AND the Board of Directors. They no longer go by Strong Committee; their name now is Jeopardizing Justice. This group of very smart women had the ability to foresee the cliffs facing the profession. Cliffs that NCRA is now facing. These very smart women – right now, right at this very minute — are out there meeting with and educating decision-makers and fighting against AI for stenographic reporters!
The lazy man’s way to deal with the “cliffs” is to increase membership by allowing minimally skilled voice writers (many of whom apparently rely heavily on AI) into our association. The E.D. and the BOD are trying to have no culpability for what they have done to the association and the profession of stenography.
If you take care of the profession, if you take care of your membership, your stenographic membership will take care of you!
WAKE UP, NCRA!
FRANK N. SENSE
P.S. Please send this to as many NCRA voting members as you know so that they know to vote “NO!” to allowing voice writers into our association.
P.P.S. Please make sure that NCRA has your information updated by July 15th (seven days!). This vote is so important that if you know of past steno members that have quit NCRA, please tell them that it would be a great investment in the PROFESSION OF STENOGRAPHIC REPORTING to rejoin just to be able to have their NO! vote count in this election! They can be the vote that forces NCRA to focus on the needs of steno reporters!