4/1/2014 10:40:51 AM by Andrew Alberti

April 2014 - Protest Committees II

Last month I started a series on how to handle a protest from the protest committee’s side of the table. At that end of that article, we had the protestor and protestee in the room and we had introduced the protest committee. We’ll continue now as you and the rest of the committee take your next step, determining if the protest is valid. If you’ve ever been party to a protest, you’ll be familiar with the front page; most sailors, however, don’t know the second side, which includes a simple checklist to guide the protest committee through the protest process. The first part of the list concentrates on the validity of the protest, so you should understand validity’s requirements and ensure that the protest in front of you meets them.