Membership Bulletin Local 410 Elections: Nominations Open

Members are advised that nominations are now open until Sept 27 @ 5 pm for the following positions and terms of office:

President (Executive Board Position)

Three Year Term, January 1, 2020- December 31, 2022

Regional Representatives (Executive Board Position) in the Eastern (1), Eastern Avalon (1), & Western Region (1)

Two Year Term, January 1, 2020- December 31, 2021

Unit Chairs in the Eastern (1), Eastern Avalon (1), & Western Regions (1)

Two Year Term, January 1, 2020- December 31, 2021

Regional Representative (Executive Board Position) in Region

One Year Term, January 1, 2020- December 31, 2020

Unit Chairs in /Wabush (1) & Goose Bay (1)

One Year Term, January 1, 2020- December 31, 2020

Women’s Member at Large

Two Year Term, January 1, 2020- December 31, 2021

As per the Unifor Local 410 By-Laws:

Elections shall be held as follows: (c) The President, Vice-President, Secretary/Treasurer shall be elected by the membership at large. The Women’s Member-At-Large shall be elected by the female members of the local. The Unit Officers and Regional Representatives shall be elected by members in their respective areas. In the event that there is not a nominee(s) with a majority of votes a run-off election shall be held as per Article 15 Section B, 5 (b) of the Constitution.

Also as per the Local 410 by-laws for Clarity: i) a member cannot hold a Table Officer position and a Regional Rep position at the same time; ii) a member may hold an Executive Board position (Table Officer/Regional Rep) while holding, for example, another position of Unit Chair or Women's Committee);

Any Local 410 member in good standing is eligible to be nominated for the office of President, Unit Chairperson and Regional Representative and can be nominated by any other local 410 member in good standing.

Nominations will be open from Sept 13 - Sept 27th 2019, following which, the Local Elections committee will conduct an election using our online voting system. Voting will be conducted 9am October 1st – until 12pm October 21st, 2019. Results will be released the afternoon of October 21th,2019

All nomination forms must include the name and signature of both the nominator and the nominee, and the position for which the nominee is being nominated, on the below form. If a member is running for Regional Rep and Unit Chair, 2 separate nomination forms must be submitted to the local office.

Eastern Avalon Region Unit - St. John’s/Mt. Pearl, Allandale, Bell Island, Cape Broyle, Donovan’s, Fermeuse, Fort William Building, Higgins Line, Long Pond, Mount Pearl CO, Mount Pearl Square, O’Leary Avenue, Pouch Cove, Renews ,Torbay

Eastern Region Unit - Bay Roberts, Carbonear, Freshwater, Heart’s Content, Holyrood, Mount Carmel, New Harbour Unit - Clarenville, Arnold’s Cove, Bonavista, Musgravetown Unit - Marystown, Grand Bank

Labrador Region Unit - Goose Bay, Cartwright, Unit - Labrador City/Wabush

Western Region Unit - Corner Brook, DMS Building, O’Connell Drive, Cow Head, Deer Lake, Flowers Cove, Pasadena ,Port Saunders ,Rocky Harbour, Roddickton, St. Anthony Unit - Port Aux Basques ,Codroy Unit - Stephenville ,Lourdes

Please forward the nomination papers via email to: [email protected] or Fax 709-726-4538

In Solidarity,

Local 410 Elections Committee Barry Crocker Allison Ross Lisa Leaman

NOMINATION FORM

I HEREBY NOMINATE ______FOR THE POSITION OF:

_____ PRESIDENT (Jan 1, 2020-Dec 31, 2022)

_____ REGIONAL REP EASTERN REGION (Jan 1, 2020-Dec 31, 2021)

_____ REGIONAL REP EASTERN AVALON REGION (Jan 1, 2020-Dec 31, 2021)

_____ REGIONAL REP WESTERN REGION (Jan 1, 2020-Dec 31, 2021)

_____ REGIONAL REP LAB CITY/WABUSH AND GOOSE BAY (Jan 1, 2020- Dec 31, 2020)

_____ UNIT CHAIR EASTERN REGION (Jan 1, 2020-Dec 31, 2021)

_____ UNIT CHAIR EASTERN AVALON REGION (Jan 1, 2020-Dec 31, 2021)

_____ UNIT CHAIR WESTERN REGION (Jan 1, 2020-Dec 31, 2021)

_____ UNIT CHAIRS LAB CITY/WABUSH AND GOOSE BAY (Jan 1, 2020-Dec 31, 2020)

_____ WOMEN’S MEMBER AT LARGE (Jan 1, 2020-Dec 31, 2021)

______Nominator

I HEREBY ACCEPT NOMINATION FOR THE ABOVE NOTED POSITION

______Nominee