Joel Duff Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Senior management of the Canadian Labour Congress, responsible for overseeing staff in a variety of portfolios, including Communications, Policy and Research, Education, Health & Safety, Environment, International Affairs, and affiliate relations for 56 labour unions.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In charge of all internal and external communications and media relations for the Ontario labour movement, including speechwriting, print and online publications, social media, graphic design, photography, and anything else that might shape the hearts and minds of the working people of Ontario.

Media, government and public relations management, including media release and speech writing. Campaigns strategy, materials development and organizing on issues relating to education and students, including: user fees, public services, trade liberalization and equity issues. Municipal and provincial government lobbying and policy submissions. Membership development and support for 36 students’ unions, including: volunteer & staff training and resource coordination.

Spokesperson for 300,000 college and university students in Ontario.Media relations, communication and membership outreach. Campaignsand government relations, including budget and policy submissionwriting. Coordinated affiliation drives to increase membership from 21to 36 students’ unions. Managed seven full-time, unionized staff.

Coordinating nationally administered member services, includingthe implementation and management of health and dental plans oncampuses across the country. Contract writing and negotiation. Liaisingwith actuaries, insurers, and benefits providers.

Represented the staff of the Canadian Federation of Students-National.

Teaching, marking and mentoring third-year university students. Coinstructed a third-year course on qualitative research methodology with a tenured professor. Developed course syllabi, lectures and student evaluations. Prepared and delivered analytic writing workshops.

National spokesperson for 60,000 graduate students. Responsiblefor media and government relations and campaigns work directed atpromoting graduate funding, university research, academic freedomand intellectual property.

Representative of 3,000 graduate students. Responsible for mediarelations, communications, research and policy development. Led acampus-wide coalition of students and staff to oppose privatization,cutbacks and user fees. Managed a campus pub and full-time staff.

Responsible for case-based academic advocacy for graduate students.Coordinated campus-wide academic conference. Led a membershipdrive to affiliate graduate students at the University of Ottawa with theCanadian Federation of Students.

Researched the geographic distribution of prostitution in Ottawa.Conducted legal research on the emergent issue of squeegeeing atcity intersections and developed public relations strategy and policyrecommendations for non-criminal justice solutions to the problem.

Labor Relations Certificate, Labor And Industrial Relations

The program addresses two key aspects of labor relations: negotiating an agreement (collective bargaining) and operating.

Master Of Arts, Criminology

Activities and Societies: Independent qualitative research on the response of the psychiatric survivor’s movement to the criminalization.

Honours Bachelor Of Arts, Criminology

Activities and Societies: Academic focus on penal abolition, alternatives to incarceration, women and incarceration, criminal justice.

Bachelor Of Arts, Sociology

Activities and Societies: Academic focus on social research, social-psychology, anthropology, women’s studies and the sociology.

Ontario Secondary School Diploma, French Immersion

Activities and Societies: Completed the French Immersion programme and nine O.A.C. credits (only six were required for university.