Originally Posted by
Vindiesel
You mean the recent COM election where as little as 15% of the AIPA membership voting for a candidate was enough to get on the COM and where even the candidate with the highest vote only got 28% of the membership's vote? Not exactly a massive mandate for anything iMHO.
Elections, with a margin of victory (by any measure), are often said to give the newly elected officials a mandate.
This doesn’t discredit those incumbent members, already elected on a different term who may also side industrially /politically with the newly elected representatives.
AIPA elections are always traditionally low numerical returns (I think the highest return was IW’s led ARG quite some years ago) therein I would suggest an implicit mandate (by any margin) exists and the new collective majority committee now have the sanctioned ability to change industrial course as desired or determined.