Former RR man elected VP of teachers federation

News Release
OSSTF

TORONTO, March 11 /CNW/ - Six hundred delegates gathered at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel for the annual meeting of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) and elected new leaders to represent the 60,000-member educational union.
Elected were Ken Coran, president; Paul Elliott, vice president; Jack Jones, vice president; Sheila Vandenberk, treasurer; Harvey Bischof, executive officer; Susan Rab, executive officer; and Sandra Sahli, executive officer.
Ken Coran, a science teacher from West Lorne, Ontario and former local teacher bargaining unit president in OSSTF District 11, Thames Valley, was acclaimed as the provincial president of OSSTF. He was first elected to the Provincial Executive as executive officer in 2001 and as vice president in 2003.
Paul Elliott, a teacher from Fort Frances High School, was first elected to the Provincial Executive as executive officer in 2005 and as a result of this year’s election will serve as vice president until 2009.
Jack Jones, re-elected as vice president, was president and chief negotiator of the plant support staff bargaining unit of the OSSTF District 25, Ottawa-Carleton. He was first elected to the Provincial Executive as executive officer in 2003 and then as vice president in 2005.
Sheila Vandenberk, a mathematics teacher from the former North York Board of Education, was re-elected to the OSSTF Provincial Executive as treasurer, a post she has held since 1999. At the local level as a union activist, Vandenberk served as vice president of the OSSTF District 12, Toronto bargaining unit.
Harvey Bischof, an English teacher with the Durham Region School Board, was elected to the Provincial Executive as an executive officer. Locally, he has served as district president of the OSSTF in District 13, Durham.
Susan Rab, elected as executive officer, is a teacher of history and geography at Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School in Orléans. At the local level, Rab was Ottawa-Carleton teacher bargaining unit and district president from 2002 to 2006.
Sandra Sahli, a child and youth worker with the Greater Essex County District School Board, was re-elected as executive officer. Locally, Sahli has served as president of the educational support staff bargaining unit in OSSTF District 9, Greater Essex as well as District 9’s chief negotiator.
The new leaders were elected for a two-year term and will commence their duties as members of OSSTF’s Provincial Executive in June, 2007.