"the negotiating team is not to agree to anything on the pension front without first consulting the membership."
I may be a little bit slow here but isn't that exactly what is happening.
Quite right eglnyt, however the fact remains that the NTUS have negotiated without a mandate to do so, therefore a special conference neds to be called to either give them a mandat to negotiate or tell them to stop immediately and start again ith speciic goals to negotiate.