Washington Teachers Union Election Results
January 26, 2005

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American Federation of Teachers, Inside AFT, Week of January 31, 2005

GEORGE PARKER ELECTED NEW PRESIDENT OF D.C. TEACHER UNION

Washington, D.C., junior high school teacher and former union field representative George Parker is the new president of the Washington Teachers Union. Unofficial results of mail ballots counted Jan. 26 for the runoff election show that Parker defeated WTU field representative Rachel Hicks, 999-816. Parker's slate of candidates also was elected: Nathan Saunders as vice president, Joyce Amoo as recording secretary and Sallie Littlejohn as treasurer. Their terms of office will run through June 30, 2007. The election of new officers at WTU will bring to a close the AFT administratorship of the local, which began in January 2003 after the national union discovered that more than $5 million in union funds had been misappropriated by several officers and staff of the local. The AFT executive council appointed former AFT vice president and regional director George Springer to serve as the WTU administrator, and in October 2004, members overwhelmingly approved amendments to the local's constitution to be in compliance with the national AFT constitution and to improve its operating and oversight functions.