JP Hornick | |
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Office: | 8th President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union |
Term Start: | 2022 |
Predecessor: | Warren (Smokey) Thomas |
Profession: | Union organizer |
JP Hornick is a Canadian labour leader and the current President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). Hornick was elected to the role April 2022 succeeding Warren (Smokey) Thomas.[1] Hornick is also the current Coordinator of the School of Labour at George Brown College.[2]
Hornick serves as a board member of Red Dress Productions, a community arts organization, which investigates the relationship between community narratives and urban public space.[3]
In September 2000, Hornick was arrested on a liquor license violation following a Toronto Police raid on a women's bathhouse organized by the Toronto Women's Bathhouse Committee, a project of the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Charges were dismissed by a judge in 2002, citing a violation of constitutional rights during the raid.[4] That same year, Hornick was named co-Grand Marshall Toronto Pride Parade.[5]