{"id":7321,"date":"2024-05-16T18:54:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T21:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7321"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:55:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T21:55:22","slug":"nstu-president-vote-headed-for-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/05\/16\/nstu-president-vote-headed-for-runoff\/","title":{"rendered":"NSTU president vote headed for runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7322\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7322\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/apple-7687261_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/apple-7687261_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/apple-7687261_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/apple-7687261_1920-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/apple-7687261_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nova Scotia Teachers Union will hold a runoff vote on May 29 to elect its next president. (Ray Shrewsberry via Pixabay)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s down to two people vying to represent the 10,000 members of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The vote for NSTU president is headed for a runoff. About 69 per cent of the union\u2019s members cast ballots on Wednesday to elect someone to replace Ryan Lutes, who did not reoffer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Five members ran for the two-year position. But nobody got the required majority of more than 50 per cent. So it\u2019s now down to Peter Day, who got 44.71 per cent of the vote in the first round, and Shawn Hanifen, who garnered 25.09 per cent, according to an NSTU spokesman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Day and Hanifen were both on the ballot in 2022, when Lutes was elected president.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The runoff vote will be held on May 29.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:rickconradqccr@gmail.com\">rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s down to two people vying to represent the 10,000 members of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union. The vote for NSTU president is headed for a runoff. About 69 per cent of the union\u2019s members cast ballots on Wednesday to elect someone to replace Ryan Lutes, who did not reoffer. Five members ran for the [&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":[316,2029,2193,2187,2192,2190,2194,2079],"class_list":["post-7321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-election","tag-nova-scotia-teachers-union","tag-nstu-president","tag-peter-day","tag-president","tag-shawn-hanifen","tag-union-politics","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321","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=7321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7324,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions\/7324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}