Executive
Mehak Kapoor
President
Nadia Flavian
Vice-President
Imelda Mata
Secretary-Treasurer
Vacant
Recording Secretary
Committees
As part of the process of negotiating our first collective agreement, we have chosen a bargaining committee to bargain on our behalf, and have formed a mobilization committee to provide support on the ground to strengthen our bargaining power.
Your bargaining committee members are:
- Shantel Fray
- Sophia Murray
- Cristy Reyes
- Ann Fraser Barry
- Kelly McLoughlin
Your mobilizing committee members are:
- St. Marcellus: Mehak Kapoor
- Rawlinson: Natalia Coelho and Wendy Cottle
- Vaughan Road childcare: Ann Fraser Barry
- George Harvey Childcare: Sophia Murray and Danielle McGann
- Weston Memorial: Janaina Oliveira
- St Maurice Childcare: Shantel Fray, Veronica Ayala and Vilma Calderon
- Silverthorn Childcare: Simone Dublin and Kara Rive
- Humewood Childcare: Kaitlyn Campbell and Karen Sierra Rodriguez
- Clairlea: Ashis Chowdhury
- king George: Christine Valade
- St. Stephen: Nicole Henry
- Donald C. Macdonald: Cristy Reyes and Niranjana Kanapathipillai
- St. Dorothy: Linda Amponsah
- York humber: Harry Bui
- Immaculate Conception Childcare: Lolita Persaud
- J.R Wilcox Childcare: Sanjeev Sharma
- Roseland Childcare: Patience and Kathy
- Carlton Village early learning centre: Rufina Edel
We are still looking for more members to serve on the mobilizing committee! If you are interested in helping out, please talk to a member of the executive.
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.