The Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment & Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers's (NUGFW's) Na­tion­al Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil elec­tions will be held on Oc­to­ber 28th, when they are con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly due.

The elec­tion was sched­uled to take place to­day but Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al James Lam­bert said it didn’t take place be­cause the op­pos­ing side, Team Shield, served him with a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter stat­ing that the elec­tion was un­con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly brought for­ward.

Lam­bert said that was in­cor­rect and that his team, Team Faith­ful, fol­lowed all pro­to­cols be­fore ad­vanc­ing the date.

The pres­i­dent-gen­er­al said the date was brought for­ward be­cause the union was fac­ing a num­ber of mat­ters in­clud­ing;

- No ne­go­ti­a­tions for the last 5 years

- Work­ers be­ing threat­ened with be­ing sent home at the Diego Mar­tin Re­gion­al Co­po­ra­tion

- No head of­fice hav­ing been re­built af­ter de­mo­li­tion in 2017

The union said they al­so took in­to con­sid­er­a­tion the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions sched­uled for lat­er this year, usu­al­ly around Oc­to­ber 28th when the NUGFW's Na­tion­al Ex­ec­u­tive elec­tion are due.

Lam­bert said no amend­ments were made to the con­sti­tu­tion and he said the change in date of the elec­tion was ac­cept­ed unan­i­mous­ly.

The pres­i­dent-gen­er­al is ask­ing his mem­bers to keep the faith.