Hiya, I’m Carrie Lynn

In 1999 I moved to Ottawa from small-town Cape Breton Island with dreams to make a big difference.

For 12 years I worked front-line for the City of Ottawa with people in deep poverty in the south end of the city. As a CUPE 503 member I got involved in our union originally to advance the rights of a growing cohort of temporary employees in our workplace.

I was elected to the Executive Council in 2005 as one of three 35-hour City of Ottawa Representatives. In 2013, I was elected to serve as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Local.

Being active with CUPE 503 opened a whole world of labour engagement and community organizing in our Province…it is where I realized being a member of Canada’s largest union could be the place where I would be supported to do high impact work.

Some highlights of my achievements include:

• Treasurer of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Union, Local 503;
• Treasurer of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care;
• Trustee serving the CUPE Education Workers Benefit Trust;
• Recipient of the 2017 Olivia Chow Child Care Champion Award through the Ontario Federation of Labour;
• Past CUPE Ontario Chair of the Social Services Sector representing 35,000 social service workers in Ontario;
• Past CUPE Ontario Municipal Workers Committee Area 3 Representative for Eastern Ontario;
• Recipient of the 2022 CUPE Ontario Sisters in Solidarity Award;
• Past CUPE Ontario representative on the Ontario Equal Pay Coalition; 
• Graduate of the Harvard University Public Leadership Credential Program;
• Graduate of the Wharton School Executive Presence & Influence, Persuasive Leadership Development Program;
• Graduate of the Cornell University National Labour Leadership Initiative;
• Graduate of the Cornell University Women in Leadership Program;
• Equal Voice member since 2017.