CHALLENGING AUSTERITYBUILDING SOLIDARITY

DEFENDING PUBLIC SERVICES…

MYLESMAGNER

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As a proud OPSEU activist and leader for 18 years, Myles:

LEADERSHIP, ACTIVISM, EXPERIENCE

• Joined OPSEU in 1995 by helping lead the successful organizing drive at the Addiction Research Foundation (now part of CAMH/Local 500)

• Is now serving his 4th term as President of OPSEU Local 568, a BPS local that represents 250 members at the Ontario Pension Board and the OPSEU Pension Trust (OPTrust), where he works as a communications advisor.

• Has represented members on 3 bargaining teams (twice as team chair) at OPTrust. This year, members have given their team a 100% strike mandate as part of their campaign for a strong collective agreement.

• Is Vice-President of the Greater Toronto Area Council (GTAC), where he has worked to help build a strong, growing activist network in Region 5

• Worked as a full-time OPSEU Campaigns Officer from 2005 to 2007, helping OPSEU members, staff and elected leaders to mobilize for OPS and LBED bargaining, the OPS successor rights campaign, LBED’s fight against privatization, and other bargaining, strikes, campaigns and actions in the OPS, BPS and CAAT divisions

• Is a delegate to the Toronto and York Region Labour Council

MYLES MAGNERfor OPSEU’s Executive Board

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We can make a real difference. How? By engaging, organizing and building on the collective energy, ideas and commitment of our 120,000 members.

YOUR vote can help make that happen.

MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER

Together we can challenge austerity. We can build solidarity and defend public services… We can organize to win!

The Liberals have cut, privatized and contracted out. They’ve eliminated thousands of good public sector jobs. They suspended free collective bargaining in our schools. And they’ve forced wage freezes and other concessions on tens of thousands of OPSEU members and other public sector workers.

It started with Dalton McGuinty. It’s likely to continue under Kathleen Wynne unless we mobilize now. And Tim Hudak’s Conservatives can’t wait to pick up where the Liberals leave off, with plans for “right to work” legislation and the elimination of public sector pensions.

This “austerity agenda” is the biggest threat that OPSEU members – and Ontario’s entire labour movement – have faced in a generation. Yet despite what we hear from governments, corporations and the media, austerity can be beaten.

PUBLIC SERVICES & THE “AUSTERITY AGENDA”The gloves are off in the Liberals’ attack on quality public services in Ontario – and the tens of thousands of OPSEU members who deliver them.

CHALLENGING AUSTERITY, ORGANIZING TO WINTogether, we can respond more effectively to these attacks. But to do so, OPSEU – and our provincial leadership – needs to do better.

We like to say we are a “member-driven” union. If we’re going to take on the austerity agenda, we need to make that idea central to everything we do. It’s time to go beyond “business as usual” unionism. Together, we need to:

• Find new ways to engage and empower our members to take on key issues that matter to them, before, during and after bargaining

• Provide local leaders and activists with the training, tools and resources we need to organize and campaign in our workplaces and our communities

• Mobilize support for our elected teams to generate the bargaining power we need to challenge concessions, win strong contracts and defend quality public services.

LEADERSHIP, NOT CONCESSIONSLocal, sector and divisional leaders can’t turn our union around all on our own. That’s where our elections for OPSEU’s Executive Board come in.

• Definitively rejects austerity, wage freezes and concessions

• Exposes the myth that attacking public sector workers and our unions will do anything to help save quality public services

• Works with the entire labour movement to build solidarity and defend public services, good jobs and workers’ rights

• Respects the integrity of the bargaining process – including members’ right to set their demands, the autonomy of our elected bargaining teams and members’ right to vote to ratify – or to strike, if necessary.

WORKING TOGETHERThis is why Myles is running for OPSEU’s Executive Board. As your Region 5 Executive Board Member, Myles is committed to:

• Calling on OPSEU’s central leadership to take a clear, unequivocal stand against the austerity agenda

• Ensuring OPSEU campaigns engage and mobilize members and build our capacity to organize on an ongoing basis

• Engaging local and regional leaders in developing an independent, progressive political action strategy for OPSEU

• Working with the Board to ensure transparent and accountable use of the union’s funds and resources in the best interests of our membership

• Working to make OPSEU educationals more accessible and flexible, ensuring they focus on practical skills, reflect concrete workplace issues and build local capacity

• Supporting our committees, caucuses and activists to organize and address equity issues in our union, our workplaces and our communities

• Building a stronger activist network in Region 5, working with our other EBMs and the Greater Toronto Area Council to reach out to every local in the region

• Building labour solidarity, strengthening our links with the Toronto and York Region Labour Council, and working to return OPSEU to full participation in the Ontario Federation of Labour

• Making sure that Region 5 has effective leadership and a strong voice on the Executive Board.

Now more than ever, we need strong provincial leadership that: