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UA LOCAL 179 2014 ELECTIONS
November 3, 2014
UA LOCAL 179 2014 ELECTIONS
Nominations were held for all
positions for the 2014 UA Local 179 Elections this past Saturday, November 1,
2014 at the Sacred Heart Parish Hall in Davidson, SK. To be eligible to
vote, you have to have been a journeyperson member in good standing for
one-year and to be eligible to run for office, you need to have been a
journeyperson member in good standing for two years.
Elections will be held for the
following positions: Business Manager, Business Agent, President, Executive Board & Finance Committee. Candidates
for election for each position are listed in alphabetical order.
The candidates seeking
election are as follows:
Business Manager – elect one (in alphabetical order)
1.
Troy Knipple
2.
Craig MacMillan
3.
Greg Moore
4.
Bill Peters
5.
Garnet St. Pierre
Business Agent – elect one (in alphabetical order)
1.
Mike McLean
2.
Bert Middleton
3.
Bill Steeves
4.
Grant Wright
President – elect one (in alphabetical order)
1.
Ken Boychuk
2.
Gerry Deets
Executive Board – elect four (in alphabetical order)
1.
Dave De La Sablonniere
2.
Brendon French
3.
Hegloy Gardner
4.
Randy Holzer
5.
Earl Leadbeater
6.
Wayne Middleton
7.
Andy Nuttall
8.
Darwin Payette
9.
Dustin Saccucci
10.
Mitch Solomon
11.
Frank Varsanyi
12.
Cory Wilson
Finance
Committee - elect four (in alphabetical order)
1. Brian Hall
2. Manfred Hauser
3. Dave Lichtenwald
4. Gerald Lovelace
5. Rick Meroniuk
UA LOCAL 179 2014 ELECTIONS
Nominations were held for all
positions for the 2014 UA Local 179 Elections this past Saturday, November 1,
2014 at the Sacred Heart Parish Hall in Davidson, SK. To be eligible to
vote, you have to have been a journeyperson member in good standing for
one-year and to be eligible to run for office, you need to have been a
journeyperson member in good standing for two years.
Elections will be held for the
following positions: Business Manager, Business Agent, President, Executive Board & Finance Committee. Candidates
for election for each position are listed in alphabetical order.
The candidates seeking
election are as follows:
Business Manager – elect one (in alphabetical order)
1.
Troy Knipple
2.
Craig MacMillan
3.
Greg Moore
4.
Bill Peters
5.
Garnet St. Pierre
Business Agent – elect one (in alphabetical order)
1.
Mike McLean
2.
Bert Middleton
3.
Bill Steeves
4.
Grant Wright
President – elect one (in alphabetical order)
1.
Ken Boychuk
2.
Gerry Deets
Executive Board – elect four (in alphabetical order)
1.
Dave De La Sablonniere
2. Brendon French
3.
Hegloy Gardner
4.
Randy Holzer
5.
Earl Leadbeater
6.
Wayne Middleton
7.
Andy Nuttall
8.
Darwin Payette
9.
Dustin Saccucci
10.
Mitch Solomon
11.
Frank Varsanyi
12. Cory Wilson
1. Brian Hall
2. Manfred Hauser
3. Dave Lichtenwald
4. Gerald Lovelace
5. Rick Meroniuk
The following positions were filled by acclamation at the November 1, 2014 Nomination Meeting in Davidson, SK. Congratulations to:
Vice-President – Brandon Faul
Recording Secretary – Darwin Ewart
Inside Guard – Gord Pawelko
Plumber Examining Board – Shane Evans, Dallas Follick
& Scott McIntyre
Sprinklerfitter Examining
Board – Mike Chriest, Jonathan
Horan & Tim Thoen
Pipefitter/Steamfitter Examining Board – Tino
Charbonneau, Shawn Lemay & Brian Murray
ELECTION TIMELINE
- November 10, 2014 - Ballots are mailed
out to all eligible voters.
- December 10, 2014 - All ballots must be
received and in the UA Local 179 post office box by 5:00pm on December 10,
2014.
- December 17, 2014 - Ballots are
counted.
- December 18, 2014 - Results of the
elections are announced
ELECTION EXCERTS FROM UA CONSTITUTION
LOCAL
UNION OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
SEC. 100. (a) Each Local Union shall
elect a President, Vice President, Recording Secretary, Financial Secretary,
Treasurer, Inside Guard, Executive Board of five (5) members, one of whom shall
be the Vice President, and a Finance Committee of three (3) members. A Building
and Construction Trades Local Union and combination Local Union shall also
elect an Examining Board to examine and qualify all journeymen for membership
and work in the Building and Construction Trades industry. Each Local Union of
the United Association has the right to elect one or more of its own members as
Business Agent and Business Manager, and when they are elected they shall be
considered as officers of the Local Union. Each officer elected by a Local
Union must remain in good standing during his term of office. If he becomes
suspended his office shall automatically be declared vacant and must be filled
in accordance with the provisions adopted by the Local Union for filling
vacancies.
(b)
Each Local Union may provide in its Constitution and By-Laws that Business
Agents assisting a Business Manager or Assistant Business Agent, may be elected
or appointed in the manner set forth in the Local Union’s Constitution and
By-Laws.
Any
member appointed as Assistant Business Agent hereunder shall work directly
under the supervision and control of the elected Business Manager or Business
Agent and shall not be considered an officer of the Local Union. The termination
of an appointed Business Agent or Assistant Business Agent shall be in
accordance with the Local Union Constitution and By-Laws. A Business Manager
must be elected and if a Local Union has only one Business Agent, he must be
elected.
Eligibility
for Office in Local Unions
SEC.
121. No member shall be eligible to
be nominated for office in any Local Union unless he shall be a journeyman
member and shall have been a member of the United Association and the Local
Union in good standing for at least a period of two (2) years immediately prior
to the election. Any journeyman member who owes or has paid a reinstatement fee
within a period of two (2) years immediately prior to the date of the election
shall not be eligible to be nominated for office in any Local Union. See
Section 161 regarding eligibility of member contractors.
Election
of Local Union Officers
SEC.
122. (a) All officers of Local
Unions shall be elected for a term of not less than three (3) years. Nomination
of officers for Local Unions shall be held during the months of May or
November, and the election shall be held during the months of June or December
and not earlier than twenty-five (25) days after the nomination meeting. At
least ten (10) days prior to the nomination meeting, notice shall be mailed to
the last known address of all members in good standing, setting forth (1) the
date and place of the nomination meeting and the offices to be filled; (2) the
date, time and place of the election meeting; and (3) the notice shall state
also that, in the event of a tie vote and a runoff is necessary, the date, time
and place of the runoff shall be stated. In an election of Local Union
officers, a member may only be nominated for one (1) of the offices set forth
in Section 100.
b)
The election shall be by secret ballot at such place or places as shall be
established by the Local Union. It shall be the duty of the Local Union to
provide safeguards for the honest and fair conduct of such election, including
the granting of the right of each nominee in such election of at least one (1)
observer at the candidate’s own expense at each polling place who must be a
member of the Local
Union
in good standing. Voting by writing in the name of a person not nominated shall
not be permitted. The candidate for each office who receives a plurality of the
votes cast shall be declared elected. Where several positions in one office
must be filled, as in the case of the Executive Board, Examining Board or
Finance Committee, etc., the candidates shall be elected in the descending
order of the votes received, starting with the candidate receiving the highest
number of votes cast. In case of a tie of two or more candidates, a runoff
election shall be conducted among those candidates.
(c)
All Local Unions of the United Association are to immediately amend their Local
Union Constitution and By-Laws to provide for the filling of vacancies in Local
Union offices by either appointment or election, as the Local Union may
determine.
(d)
In an election of Local Union officers, an officer holding an office that is
not up for election is not eligible for nomination to some other Local Union
office set forth in Section 100 unless he first resigns the office he holds.
His resignation must be written and filed with the Local Union prior to the
mailing of nomination meeting notices.
(e)
The General Executive Board shall have full discretionary authority to waive
the time requirements of Section 122 for Local Unions that hold an election of
officers six (6) months prior to the United Association Convention. The General
Executive Board shall determine the months to which the Local Unions shall
advance the holding of their elections of officers. An advancement of a Local
Union’s election of officers under this section shall not affect the term of
office of incumbent officers. Where a Local Union holds nominations for Local
Union offices at the same time it nominates delegates and alternates to the
United Association Convention a member may be nominated for either a full-time
salaried office or as a United Association Convention delegate or alternate, or
both.
Mail Balloting
SEC. 123. (a) Mail balloting may be authorized in elections of Local Union
officers under the following conditions: The Local Union membership shall, at
either a special or regular meeting, by appropriate motion, file a request with
the General President for permission to use the mail ballot. This request shall
be filed with the General President thirty (30) days prior to the holding of
nominations and shall set forth the reasons why mail ballots are necessary. The
General President may, in his discretion, for the best interest of the Local
Union and the United Association, grant or deny such request. The General
President may, in his discretion, for the best interest of the Local Union and
the United Association, order that an election of Local Union officers be held
by mail ballot in the absence of a request from the Local Union membership.
(b)
The General President shall prescribe rules and regulations controlling the use
of the mail ballots so that the integrity and secrecy of the ballot box may be
safeguarded. When the General President authorizes the use of a mail ballot, he
may also authorize the Local Union to move its nominations and elections one
(1) month earlier than the times prescribed in Section 122(a), with
installation of officers to occur during the same month the Local Union
previously installed their officers. The decision of the General President
shall be final and binding and there shall be no appeal from his decision
granting or denying the request of the Local Union to use a mail ballot.
Eligibility
to Vote at Local Union Election
SEC.
124. (a) No member shall vote at
any election of any description unless he has been a member in good standing in
the Local Union where the vote is being taken for a period of one (1) year
immediately prior to the date of election. Any member who owes or has paid a
reinstatement fee within a period of one (1) year immediately prior to the date
of election shall not be eligible to vote in any Local Union election.
See
Section 161 regarding eligibility of member contractors to vote.
(b)
The General Secretary-Treasurer will upon request of the Business Manager or
the Financial Secretary of a Local Union furnish an eligibility list indicating
those members eligible to vote and seek office in Local Union elections.
(c) The request for such list
should be made at least thirty (30) days prior to nominations in the Local
Union.
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