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NALC Director of Life Insurance Jim Yates has announced an MBA representative training to be held on Sunday, June 14. This is the first in the 2026 series of training sessions, and will be focused on the MBA’s Individual Disability Income and Hospital Plus policies. Future trainings will cover Life Insurance and Retirement Savings Plans.

Branch presidents may begin registering their MBA representative for the training through the branch president’s Members Only page. Each branch may register up to three people. The registration directions are below.

The class will begin at 2 p.m. Eastern time and is scheduled to be one and a half hours long, but usually finishes earlier.

NALC has developed the ability to create a registration and training gateway through the Members Only portal on the NALC website.

Registration

Once a meeting has been scheduled through the Members Only portal, branch presidents will need to register their members in order for them to attend. To access the registration option, branch presidents can go to the NALC website and log into the Members Only portal. Once logged in, choose the Meetings Menu from the menu on the left-hand side of the page and then select the Meeting Registration by Officers option. This will display a list of upcoming meetings.  From there, presidents can register a member(s) by entering their last name in the “Search” box and selecting the correct member from the drop-down list. A member can also be removed from the “Registry” list by checking the box under the “Delete” column next to the corresponding member. Branch presidents will not be able to register more than the maximum number of attendees per branch or exceed the maximum number of attendees for that session. The maximum number of registrants per branch and for the session, as well as the registered-to-date counts, are displayed on the registration screen.

Training materials

Training materials and other pertinent information may be supplied for each session in the form of PDFs. These documents will be available to registrants on their Members Only page. The documents can be printed, copied and/or saved.

Accessing meeting information and/or joining the meeting

When a registered member wants to access training materials, view topics, or join a meeting, they can go to the NALC website and log into the Members Only portal. Once logged into the portal, the member will choose the Meetings Menu from the menu at the left-hand side of the page and select the Join a Meeting option, which will display a list of those meetings the member is registered to attend. For each meeting, there will be three buttons: The “Documents” button will give the member access to the training materials; the “Topics” button will give the member access to a list of topics (if any); and the “Join” button. The “Join” button will appear 10 minutes prior to the start time on the day of the meeting. If you log into the Members Only portal sooner than 10 minutes prior to the start of the meeting, you will need to exit to the home page and re-enter to access the “Join” button. Once you select the join button, you will be taken to a Webex window titled “Starting your meeting…”. Scroll down to select “Join from your browser.” When joining, the member will be prompted to enter their name and email address in order to attend the meeting. Proceed by selecting the “next” button followed by the “Join Meeting” button.