ELECTIONS: UN STAFF PENSION COMMITTEE HAPPENING NOW (31 March to 10 April 2017), link to bios below
Contact Chair, Polling Officers, gheorghe@un.org for information
IAN RICHARDS' CAMPAIGN STATEMENT
Dear Colleague,
The Board of the pension fund must represent your interests. Our fund must be kept safe and secure.
You will have received an email from "Polling Officers, CCISUA - UN Staff Pension Committee Election - 2017" with the link to vote for members to the UN Staff Pension Committee, who are also members of the pension fund Board.
It's important that you vote. I am a candidate.
As a staff representative I pressured the fund to pay its retirees on time, successfully lobbied the General Assembly to keep the fund in the UN and helped expose misleading data being published by the fund on the UN intranet.
However, the fund’s leaders have yet to be held accountable for their actions, staff continue to be paid later than is acceptable and the returns on the fund’s investments are below target with $3.4 billion recently lost in foreign exchange transactions.
If elected I will:
The Board of the pension fund must represent your interests. Our fund must be kept safe and secure.
You will have received an email from "Polling Officers, CCISUA - UN Staff Pension Committee Election - 2017" with the link to vote for members to the UN Staff Pension Committee, who are also members of the pension fund Board.
It's important that you vote. I am a candidate.
As a staff representative I pressured the fund to pay its retirees on time, successfully lobbied the General Assembly to keep the fund in the UN and helped expose misleading data being published by the fund on the UN intranet.
However, the fund’s leaders have yet to be held accountable for their actions, staff continue to be paid later than is acceptable and the returns on the fund’s investments are below target with $3.4 billion recently lost in foreign exchange transactions.
If elected I will:
· oppose
moves to remove the fund, its staff and investments from the UN;
· hold
the pension fund’s leaders accountable for the suffering caused to retirees
through late payments and the fund’s poor financial performance;
· identify
bottlenecks in benefits payments so that retirees are paid on the day of
retirement;
· make
sure the fund is prepared for difficult economic times ahead;
· ensure
the Board holds regular townhalls with staff to understand your needs.
The online voting platform is easy to use and you can choose up to six candidates. The deadline for voting is Monday 10 April 9 a.m. EDT.
Other candidates with similar views and objectives are:
· Egor
Ovcharenko
· Michelle
Rockcliffe
· Ibrahima
Faye
· Katy
Joseph Solozano
· Nebiyu
Workineh
Thank you for taking the time to vote. Our pension fund needs your participation.
Ian
Brief Bio
· Economist
on investment issues at UNCTAD
· Treasurer
and Vice-Treasurer of La Mutuelle, the Geneva savings and loans mutual, 2013 to
present
· President
of the Coordinating Committee of International Staff Unions and Associations
(CCISUA), 2014 to present
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