Note: Posting this information again, since the original thread, with all its replies -- as well as another thread on Alliant by Kaight -- was apparently deleted by accident due to spam. Please do not delete this thread (other than any spam in the replies).
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While helping a relative shred some of their old tax boxes I came across a few years of December Alliant statements from a few years back. And look what I found printed on Alliant's December 2016 statement -- Alliant actually inviting its members to attend their yearly Annual Meeting (which they now use when kicking out members they don't want).
Printed on their Dec 2016 paper statement:
Announcing Alliant's 81st Annual Meeting of the Members
Alliant's 2017 Annual Meeting will be held Thursday, February 23, 2017, from 9:30am to 10:00am CST at Alliant Headquarters located at 11545 West Touhy Avenue, Chicago, IL 60666. This meeting is open to all members of Alliant.
Note that it said this was their 81st Annual Meeting of the Members. That's a lot of years when Alliant allowed their members to attend. Now though, members are barred (if not on paper, then in reality) from attending the "member" meeting, as Alliant absolutely refuses to divulge any information on when the meeting is held beforehand. Not only that, but the address above (which Alliant still shows as their Corporate Offices on their website as of 2/24/2024, and where apparently their yearly meeting is still held) now states: "Not open to the public. No branches or ATMs."
As Kaight pointed out in a reply to this post originally, there was a management change shortly after this, and the new head of Alliant does things differently.
Here's a website that has chronicled Alliant kicking members out over the last few years:
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/alliant-closing-down-some-accounts-mo-deposits/
There are posts there by people to whom it's happened to, as well as apparently a link to the regulator for Alliant. Doesn't even a state-chartered credit union have to allow its own members to attend its yearly annual meeting for members? Alliant is able to kick members out by a 2/3rds vote of members present at the annual meeting, so if they can exclude everyone else from that meeting except the Alliant staff themselves, that's how they're able to kick members out. Realistically, I don't know how many members would travel to Chicago to attend themselves, but it's the blatant way that Alliant now absolutely refuses to inform its members -- even when asked directly for that information -- of how to attend their annual members meeting (where they kick out members), that's disgusting... and illegal(?) Even if they were to give out the information, as I believe they're required to do, it probably wouldn't change anything, yet they absolutely refuse to do so now, which I believe goes against the rules of even a state-chartered credit union.