Longtime activist Seguin
'retiring
from labour movement'
North Bay Newspaper Guild | CWA Canada
Local 30241
Saying that he is "retiring
from the labour movement," Dan D. Seguin has resigned
as president of CWA Canada's North Bay Local.
Seguin, who has "been involved from the get-go
in 1988," has been president for 11 years and,
as a press operator who works nightshifts at the North
Bay Nugget, "it's been a brutal job." However,
he hastens to add, it's also "been a blast."
Dave Dale, vice-president of the office unit, will
be acting president until an election can be held in
February at a general membership meeting. Seguin says
he hopes Dale will seek the nomination for the president's
position.
Seguin will not be at that
meeting though, having booked a one-week holiday
on a Caribbean island; his first trip out of Canada
in 20 years. He promises to send a "goodbye" note
that can be published on this website, along with
a picture of him on the beach.
The North Bay Local has about 80 members who work
in all departments at the Nugget. The daily newspaper
was one of Osprey Media's holdings, most of which were
taken over by Quebecor's media division last year.