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REFORM221 GETS NEW ELECTIONS!

U.S. DEPT OF LABOR SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT REACHED

New Elections to be Held, August 20 - September 21

Mail ballots will go out August 20 and ballots will be counted on September 21, 2010.


SEIU 221 has made an out-of-court agreement to hold new elections for the 12 contested executive board and officer positions. (Four of the 16 board seats were uncontested in 2009, and will not be included in the new elections.) This averts the possibility of a long and expensive trial, and of a court order to nullify the results of the July 2009 elections, but has the same result: new elections run under government supervision, NOT run by the incumbent union officers who got caught stealing the first election.

Reform221 has qualified a team ("slate") of 11 candidates for the ballot. All members of SEIU 221 who want to Take Back Our Union, end the corruption, and build a union that WORKS, are invited to join REFORM221 and help us campaign.


Reform221 candidates for the 2010 Local 221 Executive Board elections are:

Monty Kroopkin -- for President
Diane Sabeghi -- for Vice President
Rose Marie Peralta -- for Treasurer
John Rochfort -- for Secretary
Claudia Millerbragg -- for Chair, Politics Committee
Patrick Martin -- for Chair, Member Organizing Committee
Anna Silva -- for Chair, Social & Economic Justice Committee
Cheryl Bright -- for a County Division seat
Felicia Boyd -- for a County Division seat
Cornelius Hill -- for a County Division seat
Robert Larsen -- for a County Division seat


We ask our supporters to vote for the FULL list of 11 Reform221 candidates. We need a majority of the 16 votes on the Executive Board in order to succeed in implementing our reform program! Check the "slate" box on your ballot!


Federal Complaint Filed to Overturn Election

Chronology of Legal Challenge of Union Election

ELECTION PROTEST FILED WITH UNION ELECTION OFFICIALS, JULY 27, 2009
Full text of Reform221 election protest

PROTEST OFFICER RULES AGAINST ALL 14 CHARGES, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
See the ruling at http://www.unionbook.org/pg/pages/view/18427/

APPEAL FILED TO SEIU PRESIDENT, ANDY STERN, SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
Full text of the appeal and related documents are at http://www.unionbook.org/pg/pages/view/18649/

COMPLAINT FILED WITH U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, NOVEMBER 16, 2009
With no action on our appeal by the SEIU President Stern, Reform221 took our legal challenge to the federal government.
See at http://www.unionbook.org/pg/pages/view/19690/

Election Over?

LOCAL 221 ELECTION -- JULY 1 - JULY 21, 2009
FORMAL ELECTION PROTEST FILED

The ballots for the election were counted on Tuesday night, July 21. Official results: all 11 Reform221 candidates lost. The incumbents won. Only 750 ballots were cast, out of more than 7,600 eligible members.

But wait! Reform221 has learned that more than 1200 members did not receive a mail ballot! Employees of the union and other election officials violated legally required neutrality. Many other "irregularities" have been uncovered.

Reform221 has filed a formal protest of the election and a demand for a new election. We expect no satisfaction from the internal SEIU protest review. We are prepared to take the case to the federal Department of Labor. That process often takes 3 or 4 months, just to meet requirements for filing the case with the government. However, it is possible to get a new election ordered by the government, and under the supervision of the Secretary of Labor.

Local 221 handles more than $7 million of our union dues each year. We cannot allow control of this union to be decided by any election that is "dirty".

The full text of the protest can be viewed at http://www.unionbook.org/pg/pages/view/16622/

The supporting evidence and documents can be viewed at http://www.unionbook.org/pg/file/group:16610

Reform221 is asking members and friends of SEIU Local 221 who may have additional evidence relating to the issues raised in the protest to contact us at reform221@earthlink.net or call 858-373-7018. You can also post comments about all this at http://www.unionbook.org/pg/groups/16610/reform221/

For further information about the federal law concerning union elections, see the Department of Labor website at http://www.dol.gov/esa/olms/regs/compliance/compllmrda.htm

See also at the Association for Union Democracy at http://www.uniondemocracy.org/Legal/lmrda.htm#elections

The official Local 221 election information is at http://www.seiu221.org/Presidential___Executive_Board_Election_Results.aspx

and at
http://www.seiu221.org/SEIU_Local_221_Executive_Board_and_Presidential_Election_Information_.aspx


Reform221 Candidates for the 2009 Executive Board elections



Monty Kroopkin for President

Diane Sabeghi for Vice President

John Rochfort for Secretary

Robert Larsen for Treasurer

Rose Marie Peralta for the executive board Schools seat

Cornelius Hill for an executive board County seat

Renée Keester-Wellman for an executive board County seat

Linda Johanesen for an executive board County seat

Dawnetta Meshack for an executive board County seat

Sandra Guerra for Chair, Social & Economic Justice Committee

Denise Knobloch for Chair, Member Organizer Committee




see the 2009 candidate statements, below.

To see our Reform221 Platform, go to our new 2010 campaign website at www.reform22.com and click on "What We Stand For"