 Hello EDU and EDU supporters!
Thanks to your support EDU candidates won 11 seats on the Executive Board, 3 Labor Council delegate positions and over 40% of the votes cast for officer positions! Thanks everybody!
We put up a strong showing against the incumbent PLC officers. Unfortunately voter turnout for this election was not as high as we would have hoped - 956 total voters (less than 16%) for the internal election - but we won roughly 41% of the votes cast for officer positions. We believe this shows that among people who are paying the most attention to the union leadership and direction, we were able to take some votes away and register a sizeable voice for a different direction in our union.
The importance of what we have done is clear - with this small
grassroots operation we were able to mobilize people to vote for what we stand for - a more open, democratic, responsive, accountable, principled, fighting (shall we go on...) union. It is just as important NOW that we continue to build the strength of this caucus - to support all our Executive Board officers. We can provide political leadership on the Executive Board if we organize to do just that.
Our next fight is right in front of us - the Executive Board has been
called to the Civic Center auditorium this Wednesday at 4 p.m. to
consider a Tentative Agreement (that means the 'reopened' part of our contract that we have been bargaining). We are being asked to
consider and VOTE on this Tentative Agreement before the Assembly meeting starts - AT 4:15! This will be our first viewing and discussion of this agreement. A democratic union that operates with transparency should not ask the Executive Board to vote with less than 15 minutes of deliberation.
JOIN US FRIDAY - this Friday the 22nd - at El Rio (Mission and Cesar
Chavez) at 5 p.m. to celebrate the hard work of everyone who made this campaign happen and everyone who is down for supporting the work of this caucus now and in the future.
Forward in solidarity,
Adrienne Johnstone
Tom Edminster
Alita Blanc
Darlene Anaya
Karen Zapata
Look for complete results on uesf.org -
Here is a partial run down -
Adrienne Johnstone, 341
Dennis Kelly, 571
Tom Edminster, 348
Linda Plack, 538
Lita Blanc, 314
Susan Soloman, 525
Darlene Anaya, 356
Elaine Merriweather, 437
Karen Zapata, 389
Roberto Michel, 408
Executive Board
(only EDU slate winners are listed - check the website for complete breakdown):
High School:
Heidi Scott
Kathleen Cecil
Special Education:
James Galgano
Elementary:
Rose Curreri (endorsed by EDU)
Cynthia Lasden
Magdalena de Guzman
Bilingual:
Lisa Gutierrez Guzman
Substitutes:
Marilyn Cornwell
At-Large:
Derrlyn Tom
Jeremiah Jeffries
Instructional Aides - series A
Salvador Aguilera
SF Labor Council delegates
Magdalena de Guzman
Darlene Anaya
Tom Edminster
See the full Slate here!
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