Candidate Post: Cast Your Vote and Stay Involved! - Stephen Nakrosis

To the members of IAPE 1096:

Our union needs your vote! IAPE 1096 elections are now under way. Please complete your ballot and submit prior to the November 4 deadline. 

Naturally, I hope you vote for me, Stephen Nakrosis, as president of IAPE 1096. More important, though, I hope you take the time to vote. Here’s why:

Our union representatives are currently negotiating with Dow Jones over issues related to the Covid-19 pandemic, including reimbursements for home office and exercise equipment. If we can demonstrate our support for the union with a large turnout of voters, we can help to make their job easier.

And after the election, our union will still need you. We will need volunteers to work as stewards, to serve on committees and to get the word out that in this post-Covid world, IAPE is there to serve and advocate for our members.

 Together, we can continue to work for a better workplace, for better wages and for better benefits.

Together, we can send the message that IAPE is there for every member.

Together, we remain strong, organized and united as we move forward to face the challenges ahead of us.

Covid is challenging us all. Our printers face challenges. Our sales force faces challenges. Our newsroom faces challenges, along with our technicians and administrative staff.

All of IAPE is challenged by the changes to our work and to our lives brought about by this continuing pandemic.

I’ve worked with our union for a long time. I’ve seen it change over the years, responding to new challenges and new realities. We have persisted and remained strong as a union. We have endured through the changes brought about by evolving technology, cataclysmic world events, economic uncertainty, and now the advent of COVID-19.

If I become your president I will work, as I have worked in the past, to help our members rise up and meet the challenges facing us today, and those unanticipated challenges that will no doubt occur in the future.

I have faith that IAPE and our members will overcome any obstacle put before us and emerge better and stronger than before.

Once again, I ask that you please vote for me, Stephen Nakrosis, as president of IAPE.