Local 1180’s governing body is its Executive Board. It consists of five elected officers and nine at-large members. The board meets monthly, and its minutes are published in the Communique, the union’s bi-monthly newspaper. The officers are elected every three years by a mail ballot of the entire membership, supervised by the American Arbitration Association. The most recent election was in Fall 2011, and the officers are serving terms that began January 1, 2012.