After four years and three attempts to hold elections, the Airport Airline and Allied Workers Union (AAAWU) recently elected its new executive team led by Nelerene Harding.
Harding who was voted in as president of the AAAWU said her entire slate was elected.
"For us, it told us that the members really wanted to put this behind them. This has been our third attempt of having elections," said Harding in an interview on Sunday.
The Court of Appeal ruled last year that the union's elections would have to be held in May or June of this year.
She said nominations were on June 6 and elections were on Friday, and nearly 310 people voted throughout The Bahamas.
"We feel that this is it now," she said.
"...For almost four years now there has been nothing going on for the rights and benefits of workers."
Harding said she will start working on preparing to begin bargaining on the union's new industrial agreement which expired in 2009, and also finding a new company that will give union members a lower rate on insurance coverage.
"It's been so long [and] we have a short window in there to start negotiating and that's going to commence immediately," she said.
She was first elected as the union's president in 2003.
However, she resigned in 2007, but that move was never officially accepted by the membership, some of whom took the issue of who should be president to court.
After her win, Harding noted that there is much work to do but said that going forward the union must work together.

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