Executives
CUPE Local 1544 Executive
Avtar Singh
Jason Del Guidice
Tracy Portelance
Rosanna Moreau
Pradeep Jaswal
Committees
Committees
Bargaining Committee
- Avtar Singh
- Jack Boulard
- Deborah Fleury
- Balwant Singh
Strike Committee
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- Mark Ranger
- Guy Hamel
- Leah Desforges
- Patrick Begin
- Rosanna Moreau
What We Do
What We Do
Keep Timmins Moving
Our bus operators provide safe, reliable service that gets people where they need to go — work, school, appointments, and more. We keep the city moving, every single day.
Maintain the Fleet
Our skilled mechanics and service staff keep every vehicle in top condition. From preventative maintenance to major repairs, they make sure the buses are ready to serve the community.
Coordinate Transit
Dispatchers manage schedules, routes, and communications to keep everything running smoothly. They are the vital link ensuring transit operates on time and safely.
Serve the Community
Transit is more than buses — it’s about connecting people. We provide an essential public service that helps residents of Timmins access jobs, education, healthcare, and daily life.
Support Each Other
We’re stronger together. As union members, we support one another in building a fair, respectful, and professional workplace where everyone is valued.
Equality statement
CUPE’s Statement on Equality
Union solidarity is based on the principle that union members are equal and deserve mutual respect at all levels. Any behaviour that creates conflict prevents us from working together to strengthen our union.
As unionists, mutual respect, cooperation and understanding are our goals. We should neither condone nor tolerate behaviour that undermines the dignity or self-esteem of any individual or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment.
Discriminatory speech or conduct which is racist, sexist, transphobic or homophobic hurts and thereby divides us. So too, does discrimination on the basis of ability, age, class, religion, language and ethnic origin.
Sometimes discrimination takes the form of harassment. Harassment means using real or perceived power to abuse, devalue or humiliate. Harassment should not be treated as a joke. The uneasiness and resentment that it creates are not feelings that help us grow as a union.
Discrimination and harassment focus on characteristics that make us different; and they reduce our capacity to work together on shared concerns such as decent wages, safe working conditions, and justice in the workplace, society and in our union.
CUPE’s policies and practices must reflect our commitment to equality. Members, staff and elected officers must be mindful that all persons deserve dignity, equality and respect.