Business Agent & Organizer: Pierre-Julien Blais
Pierre Blais has worked at CUPE 4600 since 2016. He has experience working in street outreach, labour organizing, educational workshops, and activism. He believes in improving working conditions for all workers, and is glad to be doing this at Carleton. He can be reached by email at bao@cupe4600.ca
Data & Education Officer: Codie Fortin Lalonde
Codie (she/her) has been a member of the Carleton community as a student, worker, and organizer for over 15 years. Her PhD research examined the framing of and interconnections between students and citizens in public education policy across Canada. She is committed to Member education, improving working conditions, collective action and community building, and sometimes writes for Our Schools/Our Selves. She can be reached by email at deo@cupe4600.ca
Mobilization Coordinator: Ruva Gwekwerere
Ruva is a long-time organizer and activist with a background in policy and advocacy. She has worked in socioeconomic as well as climate justice and sees these issues as deeply interconnected with labour issues and workers rights. She believes in the power of collective action and is passionate about coalition building. Ruva is excited to be working with CUPE 4600 as an expansion of her social justice work. She can be reached at mobcor@cupe4600.ca
Strike Coordinator: Veronica Vincencio
Veronica (she/her) has been a member of the Carleton community as a student, worker, and activist. She has been a member of both units. Her research focuses on queer migrant Latinas and their experiences of racialization in Ottawa; ways in which these women navigate and negotiate their participation in the white queer/non-queer-oriented spaces in the city; and how these women may transgress and, at times, even reproduce heteronormativity in such places. Veronica’s research represents a contribution to queer and critical race studies, trans queer individuals of colour in relation to systemic inequalities, oppression, and marginalization. She is interested in continuing to explore queer Latinas’ lives and lifestyles in Ottawa, particularly in relation to access to work and working conditions. Veronica can be reached by email at Strike@cupe4600.ca.
CUPE 4600’s staff are unionized under Unifor Local 567.