{"id":10212,"date":"2025-01-29T10:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T18:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/?p=10212"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T18:15:31","slug":"iam-iam-membership-elects-incumbent-executive-council-law-committee-and-afl-cio-clc-delegates-in-strong-showing-of-union-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/?p=10212","title":{"rendered":"IAM &#8211; IAM Membership Elects Incumbent Executive Council, Law Committee and AFL-CIO, CLC Delegates in Strong Showing of Union Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an overwhelming show of support, IAM Union members have nominated and elected the incumbent Executive Council members and international officers to a new four-year term, beginning July 1, 2025. For the first time in nearly two decades, there will be no need for runoffs for international officer elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of myself and the entire IAM Executive Council, we would like to thank all IAM members for again upholding our longstanding tradition of union democracy,\u201d said IAM International President Brian Bryant. \u201cWe continue to be proud of the IAM\u2019s \u2018one member, one vote\u2019 electoral system that gives all members a voice in our union\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nominations were held on Jan. 18, 2025 at every IAM Local throughout the United States and Canada. No candidates other than those elected below received enough nominations to hold a full election. A full nomination listing by Local is being finalized and will be released in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>International President<br \/>\n<\/strong>Brian Bryant (Local S6)<\/p>\n<p><strong>General Secretary-Treasurer<br \/>\n<\/strong>Dora Cervantes (Local 2198)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian General Vice President<br \/>\n<\/strong>David Chartrand, Canadian General Vice President (Local 712)<em>*<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. General Vice Presidents<br \/>\n<\/strong>David Sullivan, General Vice President (Local S6)<br \/>\nRichie Johnsen, General Vice President (Local 1781)<br \/>\nCraig Martin, General Vice President (Local 470)<br \/>\nJody Bennett, General Vice President (Local 2771)<br \/>\nSam Cicinelli, General Vice President (Local 701)<br \/>\nRobert \u201cBobby\u201d Martinez, General Vice President (Local 933)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Law Committee<br \/>\n<\/strong>Eric Johnston (Local 235)<br \/>\nRyan Haehnlein (Local 701)<br \/>\nTeressa Peart (Local 774)<br \/>\nOlu Ajetomobi (Local 1781)<br \/>\nSal Vasquez (Local 311)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delegates to the AFL-CIO<br \/>\n<\/strong>E. Michael Vartabedian (Local 264)<br \/>\nSharon Sugiyama (Local 2339G)<br \/>\nRichard Jackson (Local 751A)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delegate to the Canadian Labour Congress<br \/>\n<\/strong>Christy Slauenwhite (Local 764)<em>*<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>*Elected solely by IAM members in Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an overwhelming show of support, IAM Union members have nominated and elected the incumbent Executive Council members and international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[86,109,148,91,224,105,79],"class_list":["post-10212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-events","tag-canada","tag-dl140","tag-election","tag-iam","tag-l16","tag-labour","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10214,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212\/revisions\/10214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}