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Kevin McCaffrey, Suffolk County legislator, gets revote in contested Teamsters election. josepgh g cairo says.....about Kevin
Suffolk County Legis. Kevin McCaffrey speaks beside Legis. Robert Trotta during a news conference at the William Rogers Legislature Building in Hauppauge Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. Credit: Barry Sloan
National Teamsters union officials have decided to allow ballots to be counted in a union election in which Kevin McCaffrey, minority leader of the Suffolk County Legislature, is seeking to regain his post as president.
The Washington D.C.-based executive board of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters had impounded ballots in a revote of a Local 707 election that McCaffrey lost in November, said Kara Deniz, spokeswoman for the national union.
The winning slate of candidates had opposed repetition of the election.
The board voted last Friday to reject the appeal by the victors and allow the election to go forward. The new ballots will be opened on Wednesday, said Susan Oddo, the Nassau local’s new recording secretary.
McCaffrey and other incumbents ousted in the November election had asked for a new vote because 92 ballots had not been delivered to workers of a Midwood ambulance company. A new election was held, but ballots were impounded because of the appeal
The ousted slate should have been aware the ballots had not been delivered, and also did not seek a revote in a timely manner, Oddo said.
Local 707 represents 2,400 workers in the trucking and food service industries, along with employees of Nassau Regional Off-Track Betting Corp.
McCaffrey, a Lindenhurst Republican, lost the union election in November to John Kelder by six votes. McCaffrey had held the $106,000-a-year union post since 1994.
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