With the election of our union officers coming up this April (watch your mail for nominations and election notices), we thought it would be useful to list all of the elected union offices we have, and what their role and duties are.  The language below is taken from the United Steelworkers Constitution.  These officers make up our local union’s Executive Board.

Our local union will be holding elections for all of our officers this April (President, Vice President, Recording Secretary, Financial Secretary, Treasuer, Outer Guard, Inner Guard, Guide, 3 Trustees, Unit Presidents, etc.).  Ordinarily we hold physical meetings where members can come and nomiate who they would like to run for what office (and people can nominate themselves as well).  But due to the pandemic, we are unable to hold such in-person meetings.  So instead we are going to be conducting nominations (as well as the elections overall) through the mail.  We have just mailed out instructions for how the nominations process will work this year.  We are posting here that same information.  Read it over, and if you have anyone you'd like to nominate, follow the instructions for how to mail them to our Recording Secretary.  At a later date, you will also be receiving a mailing with the formal elections notice, and the election ballots. 

The Chequamegon Clinic in Ashland will be voting tomorrow on whether or not to ratify their new union contract with St. Luke's. Voting will take place from 11am to 1pm in the Community Room of the Clinic. You must be present to vote, so if you have the day off, you'll need to swing by to cast your ballot. Union staff will be on hand to walk through the proposed changes in the contract, and to answer any questions you may have. We'll also have on hand copies of the Local union's college scholarship applications and free neck gaiters.