Former Vice-President Jonathan Smith Ousts 3-term President Clarice Torrence
Here is the press release from the United for Change Slate:
Besieged Postal Workers Pick New Union President.
Jonathan Smith Defeats 3-Term Incumbent.
United For Change Slate Sweeps APWU NY Metro Area Election
April 26, 2012 Postal clerks, motor vehicle operators, and maintenance workers in Manhattan, the Bronx, and two processing facilities in New Jersey have overwhelmingly elected Jonathan Smith and the United For Change Slate in a hotly contested election.
Clarice Torrence, three-term incumbent was ousted in a strong rebuke by the membership of the New York Metro local, the largest in the American Postal Workers Union. Torrence who had won three previous elections by small margins, was defeated by Jonathan Smith and his slate.
Jonathan Smith received 51.9% of the vote; Clarice Torrence running on the Power to the Workers Slate, 30%; Bruce Webster of the Voice of the Members Slate, 16.68%; and Betty Reid running as an independent presidential candidate, 1.3%. Jonathan Smith; Tiffany Foster; Daniel Zachman, Jr.; Sharon Tyrrell; and Kevin Walsh have been elected New York Metro Area Postal Union full-time officers. The induction of the new officers will take place at the general membership meeting on Wednesday, May 16, 2012.
THE MEMBERS OF NY METRO HAVE SPOKEN WITH ITS VOTE AND I WOULD HOPE THE NEW OFFICIALS SERVE US WELL…
THIS IS WHAT WE VOTED FOR:
AGGRESSIVE STEWARDS ON THE WORK FLOOR LIKE OUR SISTER UNION THE MAILHANDLERS
ENFORCEMENT OF THE CONTRACT WHEN IT COMES TO ACTING SUPERVISORS. WHY ARE WE ALLOWING CAREER ACTING SUPERVISORS IN MORGAN?
OPEN DOOR POLICY TO OUR UNION OFFICE IN MORGAN AND OUR HEADQUARTERS IN NYC.
TORRENCE AND HER FLUNKIES WERE CORRUPT AND THEY WERE OUSTED BECAUSE THEY FAILED TO REPRESENT THE MEMBERS..
Decertify APWU all together! If you’re tired of ever changing contracts and self preservation on the part of union officials all at the expense of its lemmings, if you’re tired of your dues money going to pay for grand displays of BS which don’t help you, if you’re tired of settling for no raises while your union fights for larger lockers in your facility, if you’re tired of junior employees bumping senior miltary veteran employees all because they are stewards that spend time not working, filing grievances for larger lockers while you are excessed to Timbuctu…then the time has come to oust them! It’s either that or same ole same ole! Go to NLRB.gov to see how to decertify a union only interested in self-preservation!
Congratulations to the members of New York Metro and to the new leadership of the largest APWU Local. To have ousted the Chairperson of the Rank and File Bargaining Committee in such a huge fashion speaks volumes.
Cliff Guffey and the entire Executive Board had better take notice.
Strange , how local APWU unions can vote on anything even to hurt their own members, at least here they voted the bad ones out, in the Western NY district many smaller corrupt APWU locals, who seek power and filing frivolous grievances over the needs of the membership, the USPS then has abusive management that needs to be corrected in addition to the corrupt unions, we need some privatization, the evil Empire must die.