Sharleen’s ability to mediate and find common ground is at the core of her solution-based personality. She sees herself as someone who supports people to get where they need to be. These are just a few of the qualities that led to her becoming the first woman elected as SEIU Healthcare President in 2003.

As SEIU International Vice-President, Sharleen is the first Canadian woman to sit on the SEIU International Executive Board. She is also the first SEIU woman to sit on the Canadian Labour Congress Executive Committee.

A proud Métis, Sharleen is humbled and honoured to represent SEIU Healthcare’s 60,000 members. She believes being a leader in the labour movement was what she was born to do.

As a mother and grandmother, Sharleen understands the importance of creating innovative and sustainable solutions that not only benefit today’s workers, but future generations as well.

Through hard work and innovation, Sharleen envisions SEIU Healthcare as a 21st century, solution-based union; a union that all members know makes their lives better; a union that teaches employers and governments that the labour movement is a valued partner, not an opponent.

Throughout his years with SEIU Healthcare, Tyler’s work has always been rooted in building ‘member power’ through education and leadership development. His proudest accomplishment is his significant contribution to SEIU Healthcare’s Leadership Academy, which is designed to help strengthen members’ workplace and political activism.

As the Academy continues to evolve, Tyler hopes that its influence will expand to regional areas so that even more members from across the province can participate and develop skills they can use not only in the workplace but also in their everyday lives as Ontario citizens.

Moving forward, Tyler wishes to ensure that the next generation of members has access to quality jobs, pension plans, benefits, and wages. He is also optimistic about younger members helping to shape SEIU Healthcare into a 21st century, solution-based union.

As president of SEIU Healthcare’s Nursing Division, Jackie led many victories, including helping to push hospital RPNs over a $35 minimum wage through the Drive to $35 and Safe Staffing campaign and getting Workload Review Forms collectively bargained in multiple sectors to improve working conditions and patient outcomes.

Grounded in the realities of frontline care work, Jackie’s diverse experiences, including working as a laundry aide, personal support worker, and registered practical nurse, have shaped her deep understanding of the challenges faced by frontline healthcare workers every day. She became a healthcare worker because she likes to help people, and that same drive pushed her to become a leader in her union.

Jackie honed her skills in standing up and speaking out through her activism and grassroots organizing with SEIU Healthcare. She played a significant role in leading the effort to organize hospital workers and activists to resist Ford’s racist, anti-worker, anti-women legislation Bill 124

As our Executive Vice President, Jackie shows up, speaks up and stands up for all. She knows this energy is essential to supporting the hard work that SEIU Healthcare members do to organize, bargain and fight back.