The president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union aims to root out cronyism and make equity a core tenet in decision-making
Two months later, OPSEU expanded its accusations against the other two ex-union bosses named in the suit, former vice-president and treasurer Eddy Almeida and former financial administrator Maurice Gabay. The union alleged that Mr. Almeida, Mr. Gabay and a third former union employee, Stephen Ward, had selectively awarded union contracts to associates and received kickbacks from them.
Conversations about the role of the labour movement in social justice issues were central in Ms. Hornick’s home when she was growing up,She began her career at George Brown College in 1997 as a professor at the School of Labour, and soon got involved in her own union local. In 2012, she was elected to the bargaining team of the College of Applied Arts and Technology, which is part of OPSEU.
She started organizing courses and developing tools for members, based on guidance from progressive labour organizations like U.S.-based Labour Notes. At OPSEU’s convention in April, members voted through two major constitutional changes that Ms. Hornick supported. First, the union added seven equity seats to its board, one for each of seven internal committees that representSecond, members greenlit a governance review, a step toward changing the leadership structure of the union. Ms. Hornick said this could lead to less concentrated power at the top of the organization.
Ms. Hornick said she has been working to improve her relationship with the ASU. “There are a number of outstanding issues with the ASU, but they are all being discussed,” she said.
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