TIM MAGUIRE : EXPERIENCE - LEADERSHIP - INTEGRITY

I have the experience of providing members leadership with integrity, with over fifteen years in leadership roles at CUPE Local 79, including President of CUPE for six years (2012-2017). I have  also been fighting for members of Local 79 for over 30 years, from 1991 as front-line workplace steward, then health and Safety Committee Member to various executive union leadership roles. 

PRESIDENT,  CUPE Local 79      2012 – 2017  

FIRST VICE - PRESIDENT                       2007 - 2011   

SECOND VP / CHIEF STEWARD             2004 – 2007  

Full-Time Unit Officer                                      1997 - 2003  

Executive Board Member                              1996 -1997  

Steward and Health and Safety                  1991 - 1996 

Under my leadership, Local 79 began an intensive team effort at member engagement, listened to and engaged with approximately 10,000 members in your workplaces across the range of services you provide, in an effort to understand the front-line workplace reality for members. We need to return to listening to members and  be in constant communication on issues impacting you. 

As a seasoned public speaker and media spokesperson, skilled at using a honed voice to both fight for members jobs, services, rights while creating and maintaining a positive public image.  With  my approach of assertively raising members concerns, while remaining respectful, I believe that I can can lead  a team effort to re-earn members' trust and the publics' respect.

I have many years of experience monitoring the City of Toronto, TCHC and Bridgepoint Hospitals' budget's and decision-making processes, sensing threats to jobs and services. Working with others in CUPE, other unions, community allies, we successfully stopped Rob and Doug Fords effort to contract out many services, like cleaning in police stations, stopped cuts to Long Term Care; reversed cuts and increases services in Child Care, Recreation, Planning (see Fighting for You page for videos)

As Chief Steward, I led the implementation and administration of dispute resolution and mediation into grievance and arbitration process, and I took responsibility for working with Unit Officers, CUPE Reps as we strategized on grievances, reviewing legal opinions, and determining final disposition of grievances. These efforts led to the resolution of nearly 4,000 outstanding grievances over a 3-year period. Hundreds of grievances were reviewed every year and I thoroughly believe that we must return to providing more transparency and more timely resolution to members complaints and grievances.

I have led collective bargaining negotiations working with your Executive and Bargaining committees for seven bargaining units with our all three employers. all in very challenging bargaining rounds.

We initiated work to rule campaign action by Local 79 members at the City of Toronto beyond the strike-lockout deadline in the 2016 collective bargaining after the City had achieved concessions from Local 416. We also have to prepare for potential attacks on our collective agreements, stand up collectively against any attempts at further attempts at concession bargaining and put an end to employer divide-and-conquer strategies to get concessions in other bargaining units and impose them on Local 79 members. 

We will fight this together.

Masters of Law (LLM) Labour and Employment Law (Osgoode Law School - Class of 2020)

National Labour Leadership Initiative (NLLI) training provided through Workers Institute, Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR)                                                                2016-2020

• Leadership Self-mastery, Values and Vision
• Organizational Change, Strategic Planning, Diversity Equity & Inclusion
• Movement-Building (Union and Social Movement collaboration) 

Advanced Leadership Coaching Circle  / Leadership Coaching Through Crises 

(National Labour Leadership Initiative (NLLI) Workers Institute, ILR, Cornell University              2021 

DIRECTOR, SPONSORS CORPORATION BOARD Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) Pension- Plan                                                                                                                                                2014 -2018