{"id":7319,"date":"2024-05-15T14:51:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T17:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2024-05-15T14:51:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T17:51:45","slug":"nova-scotia-teachers-union-members-voting-on-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/05\/15\/nova-scotia-teachers-union-members-voting-on-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia Teachers Union members voting on new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7110\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7110\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ryanlutes-1024x565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ryanlutes-1024x565.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ryanlutes-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ryanlutes-1536x847.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ryanlutes-2048x1130.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Lutes did not reoffer as president of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union. (Nova Scotia Teachers Union YouTube channel)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 10,000 members of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union are voting Wednesday to elect a new president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NSTU presidents are elected to two-year terms. They can serve no more than two terms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ryan Lutes was elected president in 2022. He decided not to reoffer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Five people are running to replace Lutes. They are Peter Day, who lost to Lutes in a runoff in 2022, Nancie de la Chevoti\u00e8re, Grant Frost, Shawn Hanifen and Mike Kelly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hanifen was also on the ballot in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Polls opened at 6 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. The union said it would announce the results at 9 p.m. Wednesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be elected president, a candidate must get more than 50 per cent of the votes. If a run-off vote is needed, it will be held May 29.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10,000 members of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union are voting Wednesday to elect a new president. NSTU presidents are elected to two-year terms. They can serve no more than two terms.\u00a0 Ryan Lutes was elected president in 2022. He decided not to reoffer. Five people are running to replace Lutes. They are Peter Day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[316,2189,2191,2188,2029,399,2187,2030,2190],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-election","tag-grant-frost","tag-mike-kelly","tag-nancie-de-la-chevotiere","tag-nova-scotia-teachers-union","tag-nstu","tag-peter-day","tag-ryan-lutes","tag-shawn-hanifen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7320,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions\/7320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}