Executive, Staff and Stewards
Executive Board
President: Noreen Cauley
President@cupe4600.ca
Treasurer: Dani Reimer
Treasurer@cupe4600.ca
VP Internal: Haley Malouin
Vp.internal@cupe4600.ca
Chief Steward Unit 2: Patti Kmiec & Esther Post
ci.chief.steward@cupe4600.ca
Chief Steward Unit 1: Molly Alderman
Ta.chief.steward@cupe4600.ca
VP External: Maria Vorobeva & Emily Quaile
Vp.external@cupe4600.ca
Recording Secretary: Theya Seywerd
recording.secretary@cupe4600.ca
VP, Unit 1: Ariel Becherer
vp.unit1@cupe4600.ca
VP, Unit 2: Cheryl Cundell & Morgan Rooney
vp.unit2@cupe4600.ca
Staff Business Agent & Organizer: Codie Fortin-Lalonde Bao@cupe4600.ca Mobilization Coordinator and Grievance officer: Pierre-Julien Blais Mobcor@cupe4600.ca Strike Coordinator: James Murray Strike@cupe4600.ca
Who we are
Equality statement and Land Acknowledgement
Equality Statement
Union solidarity is based on the principle that union members are equal and deserve mutual respect at all levels. Any behaviour that creates conflict prevents us from working together to strengthen our union.
As unionists, mutual respect, cooperation and understanding are our goals. We should neither condone nor tolerate behaviour that undermines the dignity or self-esteem of any individual or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment.
Discriminatory speech or conduct which is racist, sexist, transphobic or homophobic hurts and thereby divides us. So too, does discrimination on the basis of ability, age, class, religion, language and ethnic origin.
Sometimes discrimination takes the form of harassment. Harassment means using real or perceived power to abuse, devalue or humiliate. Harassment should not be treated as a joke. The uneasiness and resentment that it creates are not feelings that help us grow as a union.
Discrimination and harassment focus on characteristics that make us different; and they reduce our capacity to work together on shared concerns such as decent wages, safe working conditions, and justice in the workplace, society and in our union.
CUPE’s policies and practices must reflect our commitment to equality. Members, staff and elected officers must be mindful that all persons deserve dignity, equality and respect.
Land Acknowledgement
CUPE 4600 acknowledges that we are on unceded Algonquin territory. The intent of our acknowledgment is to recognize the myriad ways that our larger colonial communities are implicated in the ongoing impacts on First Nations people. Through this acknowledgment we hereby commit to continually recognize and challenge the influences of settler society on our working and living conditions, and the impacts of genocide, oppression and exclusion on the wider communities around us.