Shirley Block and Jon Hunt were reaffirmed as the top officers of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 in a re-run election overseen by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).
Block was earlier elected Local 757 president in regular union officer elections that took place June 23, 2015, and Hunt was elected vice president. But the election results were challenged and voided for those two offices. In the race for vice president, candidate Dan Martin was found to have been ineligible because of a conviction for theft or embezzlement of government funds. And in the race for union president, the DOL found that one candidate was unfairly denied access to an email list, and another candidate, Chris Orlando, was found ineligible for being behind on union dues.
In the mail ballots counted April 25, Block won 55 percent of the vote, outpolling Bruce Hansen (29 percent) and Henry Beasley (16 percent).
Hunt won 52 percent of the vote — 1,192 to 1,111 — against challenger Christopher Day.
Turnout was 45 percent, with 2,340 ballots cast out of 5,186 mailed.
