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TO ALL Local 598MEMBERS
Sudbury Mine, Mill & Smelter Worker’s Union, Local 598/Unifor
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS for SECRETARY TREASURER
Nominations Period – September 23, 2025 to October 7th, 2025 (4:00 P.M.)
Issued by: Sudbury Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers’ Union, Local 598/Unifor – September 23, 2025
All members of Mine Mill Local 598/Unifor are automatically nominated for the positions for which you qualify and conform to Local By-Laws. If you wish to accept nominations, you must indicate your intention in the manner prescribed.
NOMINATIONS PERIOD
September 23, 2025 the nominations' period will open for the Secretary Treasurer on the Board of Executives. The nomination period will close on Tuesday October 7, 2025, 4:00 p.m.
On the following pages you will find specific details on the election process and eligibility parameters.
ELECTION ELIGIBILITY
No member shall be eligible to hold Executive office that has not been a member in good standing for at least one year prior to opening of nominations.
To be eligible to run for Steward and Committee persons, you must be a member in good standing for not less than six months.
To be eligible to run for Unifor Constitutional Convention and Unifor Council, a member must have been in continuous good standing in the National Union for 12 months immediately preceding the first day of the month in which the Convention is held and shall have been a Mine Mill Local 598/Unifor member for 3 months.
The 12-month rule does not apply to recently Unifor joined Units but the 3-month Mine Mill Local 598/Unifor rule does apply. To be eligible to vote, you have to be a Union dues-paying member (laid off or not), or retiree.
RUNNING FOR AN EXECUTIVE BOARD POSITION - DISCLAIMER
All members of Mine Mill Local 598/Unifor who wish to run for Executive Board positions must comply with Terms of Registration with Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario.
Section 32 (1) 9 of this regulation prohibits the operator of a gaming premises from allowing executives and staff of a trade union who represent or negotiate on behalf of gaming employees at the gaming premises to play games of chance at that gaming premises. The signed terms on Unifor Local Union 598 o/a Sudbury Mine, Mill and Smelters Workers registration also requires its executives to ensure that these individuals refrain from such gaming activities.
Please be also reminded that the terms of registration for Unifor Local Union 598 o/a Sudbury Mine Mill and Smelters Workers requires its executives to provide the Deputy Registrar with written notification of its intention to change any member of its executive, and to obtain the Deputy Registrar’s written consent prior to the change.
Please note that should any other executive or staff member of Unifor Local 598 o/a Sudbury Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers wish to deal directly with any gaming premise in Ontario, they must first submit a fully completed Personal Disclosure Form with photograph to the Commission and be approved by the Deputy Registrar.
PERIOD to submit NOMINATION
Nominations will be open from:
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
to
4:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Any nomination forms received outside of these dates/times will be disqualified.
Nomination forms will be available through your Unit Chair, the Union Office and they are available to submit electronically or download and print from our website under Election.
- NOTE: If you submit a nomination form and wish to withdraw it, this MUST be done during the nomination period.
Nomination forms must be submitted directly to the Union Office in one of four ways and each nominee is responsible for contacting the Union Office to confirm its receipt.
Submit Electronically with Electronic Signature (via www.MineMill598.com )
Scan and Email: @email
In Person to Kimberley Glibbery, Executive Assistant - 2550 Richard Lake Road
Fax: 705-673-1183 – Attention: Election Committee
PERIOD to CAMPAIGN
Once the nomination period is complete, a poster will be put up at your workplace and posted on the Union’s website informing of an acclamation, or upcoming election details accordingly.
In Solidarity,
Your Election Committee
Peter Sullivan – Election Committee Chairperson (email: @email)
Dwight Harper– Election Committee Member (email: @email)
George Markic – Election Committee Member (email: @email)
Ron Michaud – Election Committee Member (email: @email)