David Kidd

David Kidd

David Kidd is a long-time labour and community activist who was interviewed on July 4, 2024. He was a member and elected steward with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 79 which represents inside workers with the City of Toronto. In the interview, he...
Michael Lyons

Michael Lyons

Michael Lyons began his union involvement at Northern Electric in Bramalea, where he was active in the United Auto Workers (now part of Unifor).  In the early 1970s, he was a staff member of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, and in 1977 was hired by the Labour...
David Rapaport

David Rapaport

David  Rapaport, an activist in the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, is the author of No Justice, No Peace: the 1996 OPSEU strike against the Harris Government in Ontario.    Rapaport joined the Ontario government as an IT specialist in 1984, and served on the...
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