Big Flat Brook, you have most of the info correct. The only "correction I can add is TU National does give $5 of each yearly renewal back to the State Council.(it may be more now this was 3 or 4 years ago) It is up to the State Council to decide what to do with that money. Some hold it out as a reward for turning in yearly financial statements. Others just keep it to use as their operating council. Others split 50/50 with the local chapters. So for those with huge TU memberships that don't get a yearly check from the State Council ask why.