2010 Election Info

This month, the members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East will again be electing our Union’s officers,* organizers, Executive Council members and, of course, Delegates from each of your institutions. On a Union-wide basis members will be voting for the offices of President, Secretary-Treasurer, fifteen (15) Executive Vice Presidents, eleven (11) Vice Presidents at large and two (2) Organizers at large.†

In each of the fifty-two (52) geographic/industrybased Areas in our Union, members will elect one (1) Area Vice President as well as one (1) rank-andfile representative to the Union’s Executive Council (except for in NY’s Home Care Areas A, B & C, Health System 7’s Central NY & WNY Hospitals Areas and MD/DC’s RN/DC/PG Area, where there will be two (2) rank-and-file representatives per Area). Also, on an Area-wide basis, elections will be held for organizers. The number of organizers to be elected in each Area appears on the chart beginning on page 4 following this article.

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