Call for Nominations
| Nomination procedures: The nomination period will start effective immediately, Tuesday, January 9, 2024 and will continue until Friday, February 2, 2024 at 17:00. Details of the election procedure will be sent out after that date. Please mail to Chief Returning Officer, c/o MUNACA, 3483 Peel Street, Montreal, QC H3A 1W7 OR email your nominations to elections@munaca.com by Friday, February 2, 2024 at 17:00. Seventeen (17) positions of the Union Council are up for election: (1) Vice-President (Labour Relations) must submit a nomination form signed by ten (10) members in good standing from any campus. (1) Vice-President (M Affairs) must submit a nomination form signed by ten (10) members in good standing from any campus. (1) Vice-President (Communications) must submit a nomination form signed by ten (10) members in good standing from any campus. (1) Chair of Communications Committee must submit a nomination form signed by five (5) members in good standing from any campus. (1) Chair of Grievance Committee must submit a nomination form signed by five (5) members in good standing from any campus. (1) Chair of Solidarity Committee must submit a nomination form signed by five (5) members in good standing from any campus. (5) Chief Steward/District Head – Downtown Campus must submit a nomination form signed by five (5) members in good standing from the Downtown campus. (4) Chief Steward/District Head – Macdonald Campus (including Gault Estate) must submit a nomination form signed by five (5) members in good standing from the Macdonald campus. (2) Chief Steward/District Head – Glen Campus (including Solin Hall) must submit a nomination form signed by five (5) members in good standing from the Glen campus. All nominations must be accompanied with a pensketch of 400 words or less in English and 450 words or less in French. Website or social media links are not permitted in the pensketch but may be used during the campaign. The candidate’s pensketch must be submitted in both French and English. If a candidate would like MUNACA to provide translation of the pensketch, they must send it to research@munaca.com no later than Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at noon. The translation will be returned to them before the nomination deadline. Please note that this is only a translation service and does not constitute the submission of the nomination itself. Candidates have no obligation to use this service and may translate the pensketch themselves, however pensketches that are not submitted in both French and English will not be accepted. The candidate must ensure that word limit is not surpassed in the final version. For information on the roles of Chief Steward/District Head, Chairs of Standing Committees and Executive Officers, please see the MUNACA by-laws. Mary Chin Chief Returning Officer |