Paul Moist is a former national president of the

Canadian Union of Public Employees The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE; french: Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique, links=no; french: SCFP, link=, label=none) is a Canadian trade union serving the public sector – although it has in recent years organized workpl ...

(CUPE),

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's largest

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, having served from 2003 to 2015.

Career

Moist first joined CUPE as a teenager in 1975, 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 served for 10 years as the president of CUPE Local 500, representing

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municipal workers. He also served for six years as president of CUPE Manitoba. Moist became the first western Canadian elected to lead CUPE's 600,000 members in October 2003. 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

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, the fight for public, quality,

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, and in resisting attempts to

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water and electricity services across the country. Moist has served as co-chair of Manitoba Premier

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's Economic Advisory Council and vice-chair of the Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation. He has also served his community as treasurer of the

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and as a director of the Winnipeg Library Foundation and the Misericordia Health Centre. He is a vice-president of the

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. Moist studied Canadian history and politics at

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References

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