American Postal Workers Union challenger Mark Dimondstein won a surprise victory against incumbent President Cliff Guffey in the national union’s election last week, despite Mr. Guffey being the favored candidate of many locals’ more-established leaders. It is the first time an APWU president has served just one term.
The challenger, who had previously been the president of his Greensboro, North Carolina local for 12 years and then served as a longtime field organizer for the national, won by a comfortable margin, besting Mr. Guffey 56 to 44 percent, with roughly 27,000 votes to his rival’s 21,000.
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