- Paul Moist
Paul Moist is national president of the
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE),Canada 's largesttrade union .Until elected to lead CUPE's 570,000 members in October 2003, Moist served for 10 years as the president of CUPE Local 500, representing
Winnipeg municipal workers. He also served for six years as president of CUPE Manitoba.Under Moist's leadership, CUPE has focused on branding itself as a community union, advocating strongly for the new deal for cities, and playing key roles in the defense of public
health care , the fight for public, quality,child care , and in resisting attempts toprivatize water and electricity services across the country.Moist has served as co-chair of
Manitoba PremierGary Doer 's Economic Advisory Council and vice-chair of Manitoba's Public Insurance Corporation. He has also served his community as treasurer of the United Way and as a director of the Winnipeg Library Foundation and the Misericordia Health Centre. He is a vice-president of theCanadian Labour Congress .Moist has been a CUPE member since he was a teenager, working first as a lifeguard, then as a greenhouse attendant for the City of Winnipeg. He was elected to his local executive after university and worked as a CUPE staff representative from 1983 to 1993.
Moist is CUPE's fifth national president and the first from the West. He has been active in the
New Democratic Party . He has a bachelor of arts degree from theUniversity of Manitoba where he studied Canadian history and politics.External links
* [http://paulmoist.cupe.ca/ Paul Moist, CUPE National President]
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