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Take Two: TWU Challengers Defeat Utano Slate in Reruns for 8 Seats

By BOB HENNELLY bhennelly@thechiefleader.com
Posted 1/28/22

An insurgent slate at Transport Workers Union Local 100 has won eight officer elections for executive board and division-chair positions that had to be rerun after the union's outside election monitor found that irregularities had tainted their victories in the original vote in early December.

The results cut into the hold Local 100 President Tony Utano and his Stand United slate have on the 38,000-member union. In the original vote, Mr. Utano won re-election over Progressive Change challenger Paulie Navarro by nearly 2,000 votes, but the outcome was significantly closer than three years earlier.

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