Congratulations to Anne Crawford (right) and Jack Major!Anne and Jack, members of the Progressive Educators team, have been elected unopposed to the positions of Female Vice-President and Branch Secretary respectively.
It is important now that the Progressive Educator ticket, as a broadly representative grouping of active and committed teacher unionists, receives support in the forthcoming elections.
In the previous election, the South Australian Primary Principals Association endorsed a ticket led by the current Female Vice-President, Jan Webber. The SASPA chatline was used by the SASPA Executive to organise a bloc vote of principals who were told to "follow exactly the numbering shown".
This organised vote saw then Executive member Jan Webber elected Female Vice-President, and three other primary principals won Executive positions.
Now, Jan is running for Branch President, and will be looking to boost her support base on Executive.
Particularly if her ticket wins the endorsement of either, or both, of the primary and secondary principal associations, members who want a more representative AEU leadership must vote.
AEU elections are conducted by the Australian Electoral Commission and ballot paper are sent to homes rather than to the workplace.
They are sent during the school holidays, and not during term time.
It is easy to put the ballot papers to one side and foget about them.
Please talk up the issue with your workmates and AEU colleagues in other sites, and encourage a huge turnout of progressive votes for Progressive Educator candidates.
1 comment:
It's easy to forget about them as well. :-)
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