After years as an executive of the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union (BEWU), Stephano Greene will now lead the organization.
Greene -- who served as the union's secretary general -- learned he became the president-elect when the unofficial results of Wednesday's polls were released yesterday.
This week's poll followed an election earlier this year that ended in controversy.
Greene ran for president in that election as well, but lost by fewer than 20 votes.
In February, the Department of Labour nullified elections held in January after it was discovered that there were people who ran for positions who were not eligible to participate in elections.
Greene's position will become official once the results are certified and he is sworn in next week.
He said his top priority is preparing the Bahamas Electricity Corporation's line staff workers for the possibility of privatization.
He said that he would learn from the experience of executives of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company's unions leading up to that company's privatization earlier this year.
"I have the advantage of (learning) from them firsthand what we need to do differently from them as it relates to preparing our members for privatization," Greene said.
He added that he would also learn from his contacts in Barbados and in Grand Bahama where private companies provide power.
"We can also sit with them to figure out what we can do differently than they might have done," he said.
Greene also said salary issues need to be addressed in the near future.
"We haven't had a salary administration study done for more than 10 years. The last one was done in 1996," he said.

"We need to make sure and get all of those things done so that we can make sure our members are properly appreciated and that they're properly trained and that we can raise the morale of the membership in the corporation to make the corporation better."

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