June 19, 2008

 

General Membership Meeting July 1

 

           A General Membership Meeting will be held at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, July 1, at Guild Headquarters, located in Suite 708, 1501 Broadway (between 43^rd and 44^th Streets), New York City.

 

           The meeting’s agenda will include the presentation of the New York Guild’s annual Tom Keenan Guild Service Award to New York Times Unit Treasurer Nancy Bachrach, as well as a report on the CWA Convention in Las Vegas.  President Bill O’Meara and Secretary-Treasurer Peter Szekely will also give reports. 

 

           Refreshments will be served.

 

Nomination Made for Executive Committee Seat

 

The New York Guild’s Representative Assembly (RA) has named Standard & Poor’s Unit Assistant Treasurer Lan Lecour as its candidate to fill the vacant Local Executive Committee seat formerly occupied by Standard & Poor’s Unit Secretary Carol Wood, who recently left her job.

 

Lecour was the only nominee for the seat at the June 17^th RA meeting.

 

Additional nominations for the Executive Committee post may be made by petitions signed by not less than 5% of the Local’s membership in good standing, and filed with Secretary-Treasurer Peter Szekely by 5:00 p.m. June 25, 2008.

 

If no petitions are filed by the deadline, Lan Lecour will be declared elected at that time.  In the event of a contest, Lecour will run as The Democratic Coalition candidate, and the election will be conducted entirely by mail ballot.

 

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06/19/08