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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Economic Democracy: CREDIT UNIONS (II) (autopost)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.093005.11807@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- What's the Difference Between Credit Unions and Other
- Financial Institutions?
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- MEMBER OWNERSHIP: Credit unions are owned by their members, not by
- a group of stockholders.
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- NOT-FOR-PROFIT CU PHILOSOPHY: Credit unions operate for the
- benefit of members, not for the profit of stockholders
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- FIELDS OF MEMBERSHIP/COMMON BOND: Credit unions bring together
- groups of people linked by employment or georgaphy and unites them
- under common financial goals and philosophies.
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- VOLUNTEERISM: All board members and some staff members serve
- strictly as volunteers to preserve and nurture members' financial
- future.
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- SAFETY: Credit union depostis are insured by NCUA. All credit
- unions deposit 1% of their assets into this fund to protect your
- deposits (see (3) below)
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- __________________________________________________________________
- Credit Union Bank, S&L, Etc.
- __________________________________________________________________
- Purpose (1)
- Not-For-Profit Cooperative Profit
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- Type of Organization (2)
- Democratically Controlled Cooperative Corporation
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- Sources of Income:
- Loans to Members/Investments Loans to Customers/Investments
- Distribution of Income:
- Dividends to Members Dividends to Stockholders/
- Investors
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- Savings/Share Rates:
- Generally Higher Competitive
- Loan Rates:
- Generally Lower Competitive
- Services:
- Membership Specific Mass-Market Oriented
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- Employee Benefits:
- Payroll Deduction/Direct Deposit Direct Deposit
- Safety:(3)
- Member Accounts Insured to $100,000 Customer Accounts Insured
- to $100,000
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- Board of Directors:
- Unpaid Volunteers from Membership High-Paid Stockholders
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- Growth:
- Fastest Growing Financial Group
- Customer Satisfaction:
- Rated Highest In Customer Satisfaction
- __________________________________________________________________
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- N O T E S :
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- (1) A Credit Union is a not-for-profit financial cooperative run by
- and for its members.
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- (2) One member, one vote -- not "one share, one vote," and the Board
- of Directors is elected directly by and directly from the membership,
- with genuine democratic control and equal say by all members; in other
- institutions, decisions are made by stockholders or investors with
- voting based on the amount of business they do, or the amount of money
- they have.
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- Unlike other financial institutions, where the Directors are
- highly-paid stockholders whose job is to maximize profits the
- financial institution makes from its customers, at a Credit Union the
- Directors are volunteers elected from the membership based on their
- experience as well as enthusiasm for promoting the interest of the
- Credit Union's "customers" -- its member-owners.
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- (3) All account are insured up to $100,000 by the National Credit
- Union Administration (NCUA), an agency of the federal government, so
- your funds are just as safe as in a bank -- in fact, safer according
- to some studies which have shown the NCUA is likely to handle a
- financial disaster better than banks, and, unlike banks, have
- sufficient funds to do so without the need for taxpayer assistance in
- the case of such a disaster.
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