Restricting with whom you may officiate . . .

[JeffTheRef]

The IAABO Constitution says only, under Section 12, Rights of Members: "Members may . . . officiate with other members of this Association." That is not the same thing as saying Members may not officiate with members of other Boards, or those who are not members of no board at all.

This doesn't even make it to the right-to-work level. Associations are not unions. The only control they might properly exert, in my Constituationally informed opinion, is that, if the association is acting as the contractor in assigning the games, well, then, it can do what it damn well pleases, as long as it satisfies its employer. In States where Boards don't do the assigning, it is not for them to decide . . .

But there are those who would obfuscate . . . and, in some States, if you want to be a tournament official, you may have to pay a fee to the State association, a separate issue.