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JP Hornick
OPSEU
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JP Hornick is President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). Hornick criticized the Ford Fest photo that appeared to have been edited to remove the purple shirts of striking community and social-service workers, part of OPSEU's "Worth Fighting For" campaign, amid a strike of roughly 4,000 workers that began on May 25, 2026.
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On June 23, 2026, two Progressive Conservative MPPs — including Attorney General Doug Downey and Scarborough MPP David Smith — posted an aerial photo of Ford Fest that appeared to have been edited to remove the purple shirts of roughly 850 striking community and social-service workers, making the crowd look uniformly blue with PC supporters. The Premier's Office denied doctoring the image, calling the change routine "colour correction."
As OPSEU President, Hornick criticized the edited Ford Fest photo that appeared to erase the purple shirts of striking community and social-service workers — part of OPSEU's "Worth Fighting For" campaign — from the crowd.
Ford's Bill 124 capped wages for 780,000 public sector workers — mostly nurses and healthcare staff — at 1% annually for three years while inflation ran at 4–7%. Two courts struck it down as unconstitutional. Separately, Bill 28 invoked the notwithstanding clause to ban 55,000 education workers from striking, threatening fines of $500,000/day on the union and $4,000/day on individuals. Ford was forced to repeal it within days after a threatened general strike. Ontario ultimately paid $4.3 million in legal costs.
OPSEU/SEFPO President; leading the union response to the strike and Unfair Labour Practice complaints.