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VOTE EDU and ask your friends to friend us on Facebook
We are in the final days of this election. Take a few minutes to help spread the word. Recommend your friends friend EDU on Facebook
Here are the instructions:
– from your FB page
– search for Educatorsfor A DemocraticUnion (sic)
– from the Educatorsfor A DemocraticUnion page, click on Friends
– click on Suggest Friends button (towards lower right)
– select all your UESF friends.
REVOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN WON ON SOCIAL MEDIA – we can win this election with everyone’s support!
Are you seeing our FB posts? – please SHARE our FB posts…don’t just LIKE them! (Like them too!)
This election is all about exposure and getting people to vote!
Traditionally UESF has a very low vote turnout even thou there are so many disgruntled members. We need to remind people there is an election and make sure they vote!
Ballots:
- No ballot mailed to your home?… call UESF 415/956-8373 and request a replacement.
- Organize a voting day at your site, after a staff meeting or during a UBC meeting.
- Remind folks to sign the outer envelope or their vote won’t count!
- Remind folks to vote the FULL EDU SLATE!
- DONT MAIL A BALLOT AFTER MAY 11 without putting a stamp on it.
- HOLD ONTO all ballots after May 15. Email or text me to arrange a for ballot pick-up at your site and safe delivery to UESF!
Everyone’s support is needed to get EDU elected! Together we can do this!
VOTE THE FULL EDU SLATE!
| Executive Officer Candidates | Executive Board Candidates |
| President: Lita Blanc | Substitute: Anna Slavicek |
| Executive Vice President: Darlene Anaya | Paraprofessional: Francis Walsh |
| Secretary: Lisa Gutierrez Guzman | Middle School: Heidi Avelina Smith |
| Treasurer: Tom Edminster | High School:
Andy Libson Ellen Yoshitsugu |
| SF Labor Council
Darlene M. Anaya Lita Blanc Tom Edminster Lisa Gutierrez Guzman |
Elementary:
Magdalena DeGuzman Cynthia Lasden Pablo Portillo Marci Ryan |
| SPED: Julia Kim | |
| At Large: Larry Orloff
Derrlyn Tom |
EDU ALSO ENDORSES: Frank Lara (Elementary) and Norman Zelaya (At Large)
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It’s Time to Cast Your Vote — for EDU!
The UESF internal election is on! You should have gotten your ballot at home. This election is about exposure and getting members to vote! Here’s how you can help EDU win!
VOTING & BALLOTS
1. Remind UESF members they got a ballot send to their home:
• do an all-call at your site
• post to your Facebook page
• send out an email (never use sfusd.edu email addresses)
2. If ballots are not received by Monday 5/4, call UESF 415/956-8373 for a replacement.
3. Remind folks to sign the outer envelope or their vote won’t count!
4. Organize a voting day at your site, after a staff meeting or during a UBC meeting.
5. Talk to your friends about voting the FULL EDU SLATE! Encourage them to look at the UESF website for our bios or contact us for more info. www.uesf.org/elections
MAILING AND PICK UP
1. Ballots must be received by May 18, 5pm.
2. Do not mail ballots after May 11; with the presorted stamp they take longer to arrive.
3. Organize a ballot collection for your site and let me know in advance. We can pick up ballots on May 17 and May 18th to deliver them to make sure each one gets counted.
VOTE THE FULL EDU SLATE!
| Executive Officer Candidates | Executive Board Candidates |
| President: Lita Blanc | Substitute: Anna Slavicek |
| Executive Vice President: Darlene Anaya | Paraprofessional: Francis Walsh |
| Secretary: Lisa Gutierrez Guzman | Middle School: Heidi Avelina Smith |
| Treasurer: Tom Edminster | High School:
Andy Libson Ellen Yoshitsugu |
| SF Labor Council
Darlene M. Anaya Lita Blanc Tom Edminster Lisa Gutierrez Guzman |
Elementary:
Magdalena DeGuzman Cynthia Lasden Pablo Portillo Marci Ryan |
| SPED: Julia Kim | |
| At Large: Larry Orloff
Derrlyn Tom |
EDU ALSO ENDORSES: Frank Lara (Elementary) and Norman Zelaya (At Large)
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Ballots Are Arriving – vote EDU!
Your ballot for UESF elections should arrive any day now. Please call the UESF office (415.956.8373) if you have not received yours by May 4. Here’s the EDU slate. When we win, UESF will be a union that stands up for you!
LITA BLANC, FOR PRESIDENT
DARLENE ANAYA, FOR EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
LISA GUTIERREZ GUZMAN, FOR SECRETARY
TOM EDMINSTER, FOR TREASURER
OTHER EDU EXECUTIVE BOARD CANDIDATES:
ELEMENTARY: PABLO PORTILLO, CYNTHIA LASDEN, MARCI RYAN, & MAGDALENA DEGUZMAN
MIDDLE SCHOOL: HEIDI AVELINA SMITH
HIGH SCHOOL: ANDY LIBSON, DERRLYN TOM, ELLEN YOSHITSUGU
SPECIAL EDUCATION: JULIA KIM
AT LARGE: LARRY ORLOFF
PARAPROFESSIONAL: FRANCIS WALSH
SUBSTITUTE: ANNA SLAVICEK
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EDU is visiting schools – Have we been to yours?
EDU candidates have been busy….. talking with teachers and paras at schools at more than a dozen schools all over the district during the first few weeks of the campaign. Members are eager to hear what we would do differently if elected. “How will you address member apathy?” and “What will your approach to bargaining be?” are two questions that came up at many sites. Other educators want to know what the union can do to address concerns over special ed, testing and common core. Candidates will continue to visit schools for the next couple of weeks. Ballots will be mailed out to members during the last week of April. If you don’t have your ballot by May 4, call UESF and make sure you get a replacement. Make sure your vote counts and get your ballot in the mail!
To learn more…
Schedule a visit to your site. Please contact Lita Blanc alitablanc at gmail.com or Cynthia Lasden notengotia at gmail.com to arrange a site visit by EDU candidates.
A debate for contested officer positions will take place on Tuesday May 5th from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the cafeteria of Civic Center Secondary School. Come here from EDU candidates.
Check out candidate statements and photos on the UESF website here.
