CUPE Executive 2024 Candidate Biographies

Good day Membership,

We the nomination committee have been diligently resolving some issues that have arisen during the nomination period. As a result, there has been a four-day suspension of campaigning for Bryanne Koehn, Janelle Powers, Melanie Lysack and Daniel Schroder for the following infractions to the CUPE 998 Bylaws and rules of campaigning set out on the nomination form. The suspension period will be from Friday Oct. 18^th, 2024, 4:00 pm to Tuesday, Oct. 22^nd, 2024, 11:59 pm. All other Candidates can begin campaigning beginning today, Friday Oct 18^th, 2024, 4:00 pm.

Infractions highlighted are listed below,

Bylaw 8.1.3

1. b) Post to social media regarding election material are considered campaigning, and
2. c) Candidates can begin campaigning once accepted by the Nominations Committee.

Nomination form Rules stated,

Campaigning may start on Oct. 18^th, 2024.

We believe this to be a fair and equitable condition to the infractions of having the website up and live for the week prior to the discovery by the nominations committee on Tuesday, Oct. 15^th, 2024, at which time the website was shut down at the request of the committee.

At this time, we would like to wish all candidates’ good luck.

Your candidates and biographies for the CUPE Executive Election are as follows:

President

• Michelle Bergen
• Bryanne Koehn

1st Vice President

• Gord Meneer
• Daniel Schroeder

2nd Vice President

• Michael Crowley
• John Harris

Treasurer

• Mike Kubrakovich
• Melanie Lysack

Recording Secretary

• Natalie Sinclair 
• Janelle Powers

Acclaimed

Executives at Large

• Jonny Maria
• Nick Ogryzlo
• Jason Paintin

In Solidarity,
Nomination Committee