Protest Decisions

OFFICE OF THE ELECTION SUPERVISOR

for the

INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS

IN RE: MEMBERS WITH                         )           Protest Decision 2016 ESD 244

            MIDDLETON,                                  )           Issued: June 16, 2016

                                                                        )           OES Case Nos. P-257-041116-FW   

            Protestor.                                           )

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            Members With Middleton, a slate of candidates in Local Union 572’s delegates and alternate delegates election, filed a pre-election protest pursuant to Article XIII, Section 2(a) of the Rules for the 2015-2016 IBT International Union Delegate and Officer Election (“Rules”).  The protest alleged that Teamsters United 572 violated the Rules by posting campaign literature in a breakroom at a distribution center of Ralph’s Grocery in Compton, CA.

            Election Supervisor representative Deborah Schaaf investigated this protest. 

            By email sent April 19, 2016, Lourdes Garcia, a candidate on the Middleton slate and the person who filed the protest, requested to withdraw the protest.  Finding that withdrawal furthers the purposes of the Rules, we deem this protest WITHDRAWN.

Any interested party not satisfied with this determination may request a hearing before the Election Appeals Master within two (2) working days of receipt of this decision.  The parties are reminded that, absent extraordinary circumstances, no party may rely upon evidence that was not presented to the Office of the Election Supervisor in any such appeal.  Requests for a hearing shall be made in writing, shall specify the basis for the appeal, and shall be served upon:

Kathleen A. Roberts

Election Appeals Master

JAMS

620 Eighth Avenue, 34^th floor

New York, NY 10018

kroberts@jamsadr.com

Copies of the request for hearing must be served upon the parties, as well as upon the Election Supervisor for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 1050 17^th Street, N.W., Suite 375, Washington, D.C. 20036, all within the time prescribed above.  A copy of the protest must accompany the request for hearing.

                                                                        Richard W. Mark

                                                                        Election Supervisor

cc:        Kathleen A. Roberts

            2016 ESD 244

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