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When are the next IBT elections?
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<blockquote data-quote="TimeForChange" data-source="post: 1194546" data-attributes="member: 45848"><p>PiedmontSteward answered your question, but I will add some details.</p><p></p><p>Technically, IBT General Executive Board elections are scheduled, like PS said, every year that has a last digit that ends with a one or a six. So, yes, 2016.</p><p></p><p>But notice that I said "scheduled". I used that word because there would only be an election if one or more challengers for any GEB position is able to get themselves officially nominated as a candidate. That process would happen at the IBT convention, which will probably be held the last week in June, 2016, probably in the Paris ballroom of the Paris Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas.</p><p></p><p>In order for any eligible Teamster to get themselves officially nominated, hence get their name on the October, 2016 ballot for all 1,400,000 (and dropping) Teamsters to vote on, those persons desiring to get on the ballot must get votes from a minimum of 5% of all elected delegates either in their Region, (for Regional VP), or in the Union as a whole (GP, GST, VP's at Large, and Int'l Trustees).</p><p></p><p>Getting the support of enough delegates is the difficult problem. The Hoffa camp, in previous cases, tries everything they can to stop their potential challengers from getting delegates that would vote for the challengers.</p><p></p><p>Although I anticipate that in 2016, (assuming that Hoffa, who would then be 75 years old, wouldn't run again) there will be a whole new ballgame at the convention. That's because there are more than a few Old Guard officers who KNOW THAT THEY DESERVE TO BE THE GENERAL PRESIDENT. People like Kenny Hall, Sean M. O'Brien, John T. Coli, and Rome A. Aloise. </p><p></p><p>Let's say that all four want to get nominated. All four have enough sway to get at least 5% of the Teamsters convention delegates to vote for them. So if Hoffa's out, then that will be the chaos convention, and there will be an IBT GEB election in October of 2016, with the winners to take office in March of 2017. (The delay is for election protests, and appeals of those protest decisions.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TimeForChange, post: 1194546, member: 45848"] PiedmontSteward answered your question, but I will add some details. Technically, IBT General Executive Board elections are scheduled, like PS said, every year that has a last digit that ends with a one or a six. So, yes, 2016. But notice that I said "scheduled". I used that word because there would only be an election if one or more challengers for any GEB position is able to get themselves officially nominated as a candidate. That process would happen at the IBT convention, which will probably be held the last week in June, 2016, probably in the Paris ballroom of the Paris Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas. In order for any eligible Teamster to get themselves officially nominated, hence get their name on the October, 2016 ballot for all 1,400,000 (and dropping) Teamsters to vote on, those persons desiring to get on the ballot must get votes from a minimum of 5% of all elected delegates either in their Region, (for Regional VP), or in the Union as a whole (GP, GST, VP's at Large, and Int'l Trustees). Getting the support of enough delegates is the difficult problem. The Hoffa camp, in previous cases, tries everything they can to stop their potential challengers from getting delegates that would vote for the challengers. Although I anticipate that in 2016, (assuming that Hoffa, who would then be 75 years old, wouldn't run again) there will be a whole new ballgame at the convention. That's because there are more than a few Old Guard officers who KNOW THAT THEY DESERVE TO BE THE GENERAL PRESIDENT. People like Kenny Hall, Sean M. O'Brien, John T. Coli, and Rome A. Aloise. Let's say that all four want to get nominated. All four have enough sway to get at least 5% of the Teamsters convention delegates to vote for them. So if Hoffa's out, then that will be the chaos convention, and there will be an IBT GEB election in October of 2016, with the winners to take office in March of 2017. (The delay is for election protests, and appeals of those protest decisions.) [/QUOTE]
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