Delegates
elect four
to Executive Board
In a Special Election on Jan. 28, the Delegates Council elected
four new DC 37 vice presidents.
The new members of the DC 37 Executive Board are Gloria Acevedo,
president of United Federation of Nurses and Epidemiologists
Local 436; Carolyn Harper, president of Board of Education Clerical-Administrative
Local 1251; Alex Parker, president of Juvenile Center Employees
Local 1457 and John Socha, president of Queensborough Public
Library Guild Local 1321.
Five new positions were created by a recent amendment to the
DC 37 Constitution that expanded the board from 20 to 25 vice
presidents. The new vice presidents received majority votes
Jan. 28.
A run-off election was scheduled for the next Delegates Council
on Feb. 25 (after PEP went to press). Competing in the run-off
were Michael DeMarco, president of Traffic Employees Local 1455,
and Robert Schirmer, president of Metropolitan Museum of Art
Local 1503. The amendment also added the president of the Retirees
Association to the board as a non-voting member. Retirees President
Stuart Leibowitz (also profiled below) was installed late last
year.
Executive Director Lillian Roberts originally proposed the change
in an effort to broaden and strengthen our democracy within
District Council 37. The American Arbitration Association
administered the voting. Only delegates from local unions whose
membership is less than 5 percent of DC 37s entire membership
could participate in the Special Election.
Santos Crespo, chair of the Nominations and Elections Committee,
chaired the election portion of the meeting. He was assisted
by committee members Carmen Charles, president of Local 420,
and Esther Sandy Tucker, president of Local 384.