DENVER — The campaign by some volunteers to gain a stronger voice in the management of trade associations, which cropped up three years ago within the National Association of Federal Credit Unions, looks to resurface again in October at the annual meeting here of the National Association of Credit Union Chairmen.

The issue, percolating for years among director groups and which forced some changes in election procedures in state leagues, stands to come up again at NACUC's Chairmen's Roundtable conference Oct. 22-25 at the Marriott City Center Hotel in connection with comments made by one of the group's most respected members, Marlene Schwartz, chairman of State Department FCU of Alexandria, Va.

Schwartz, who was joined by other Maryland and D.C. CU chairmen at NAFCU's 2005 conference in Las Vegas critical of voting rules which effectively blocked volunteers from winning seats on all-CEO boards, said this week the large trade groups, NAFCU and CUNA, in particular, continue to give “only lip service” to opening up boards to volunteers.