Jinny Sims, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jinny Sims

Canadian politician

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1952

Place of Birth: India

Profession: politician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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About Jinny Sims

  • Jinny Jogindera Sims (born June 7, 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian politician, who was elected as a New Democratic Party Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2017 provincial election in Surrey-Panorama.
  • She previously was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election.
  • She represented the electoral district of Newton—North Delta as a member of the New Democratic Party. Sims emigrated to England from Punjab, India at the age of nine.
  • She earned a Bachelor of Education degree at the Victoria University of Manchester (now the University of Manchester).
  • Sims and her husband moved to Canada in 1975, spending two years in Quebec before moving to Nanaimo where she was a high school teacher until the early-2000s.
  • She was elected president of the BC Teachers' Federation in 2004 and served in that role until 2007.
  • In her role as president of the BCTF, she was involved in the May 2005 provincial election when the BC Liberal Party, a week before the election, accused the BCTF of having a "secret plan" to strike two days after the election; the organization subsequently filed a defamation lawsuit.
  • When the teachers, who had been working for over a year without a contract, did provide strike notice in September 2005, the provincial government immediately extended, by legislation, the last contract to June 2006 and made a potential strike illegal.
  • Regardless, Sims led the teachers in job action, culminating in a two-week strike.
  • The Labour Relations Board determined the strike illegal and the BC Supreme Court found the BCTF in civil contempt of court, fined the BCTF $500,000 and ordered the BCTF not pay the teachers a strike pay.
  • The strike ended when the membership voted to accept a $150 million mediated settlement which both the government and the BCTF executive had endorsed.
  • Sims's BCTF successfully negotiated a five-year contract in June 2006.

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