June 7, 2007

 

REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLY NOMINATES ITS CANDIDATES FOR LOCAL PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY-TREASURER

  

Candidates nominated by the New York Guild’s Representative Assembly to fill the several positions of President and Secretary-Treasurer of the Local have been declared elected.

 

    No nomination petitions from opposing candidates were filed by yesterday’s 5:00 pm deadline.

 

The New York Guild’s Representative Assembly (RA) last night nominated its candidates for Local President and Secretary-Treasurer.  Local Secretary-Treasurer William O’Meara was nominated by First Vice Chairperson and New York Times Unit Chairperson Art Mulford to succeed Barry Lipton as President of the New York Guild.  Barry has announced his retirement as of the close of business on June 1.  O’Meara came to work as a Local Representative at the New York Guild in 1988 after working as a news editor and news writer at WPIX TV for several years, where he also served as the Guild Unit Chairperson.  For the past eight years, Bill has served as the Local’s elected Secretary-Treasurer.

 

Peter Szekely, the New York Guild’s Local Chairperson, was nominated for the position of New York Guild Secretary-Treasurer.  He was nominated by Second Vice Chairperson and Foreign Policy Association Unit Chairperson Karen Rohan.  Szekely, who has been a journalist for the past 28 years, has served as Reuters Guild Unit Chairperson for 17 of those years and is also currently Region 5 Vice President of the Guild Sector of the Communication Workers of America. 

 

No opposing candidates were nominated at the meeting and O’Meara and Szekely were unanimously endorsed by the RA.  Additional nominations may be made via petitions of not fewer than five percent of the membership in good standing as of April 1, 2007.  These petitions must be filed with the Secretary Treasurer no later than 5 p.m., Thursday, April 26, 2007. 

 

If no petitions are filed by the deadline, the nominees will be declared elected at that time and will assume office on June 4. In the event of a contest, the candidates will run on The Democratic Coalition Slate, and the election will be conducted entirely by mail ballot. 

 

Copies and complete rules for nominations and elections have been sent out to all shops

 

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06/07/07