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She hopes her own story of redemption and success might inspire others struggling to find their way. "It's emotional, " she said. "Every time you tell that story, you relive it. "
"I never had a lot of money, lived many times with our power being cut off or the oil tank running dry, " Jessome said. "Sometimes you never answered your front door, never checked your mail, because you didn't know what was going to be disconnected. " Turning her life around Jessome was overweight, smoked a pack a day, and couldn't get decent work. The day she turned 30, she was laid off from her accounts payable job at a grocery store and decided she needed to make a change. She earned a medical secretarial diploma and eventually got a permanent job at the provincial Department of Health. At home, another transformation was happening. Jessome decided to get her stomach stapled to lose the weight, despite her husband's objections. "It was life changing. It altered my confidence, my outlook, " she said. As for the impact on her marriage, that ended for good a few years later. She got her first taste of life in the labour movement when a co-worker invited her to a union meeting. The union, she said, gave her the opportunity to change her life, providing child care, training for public speaking and a place to meet people.
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And the father of her child, a married man, was still in the picture, even though the relationship was rocky. "At that age, I was in love with the guy, " she said. Finally returning home She had another daughter with him, and was still estranged from her parents in Cape Breton. It wasn't until her second child was 10 months old that the frosty relationship began to thaw. "My parents asked my sisters what did they want for Christmas and they said, 'We want Joan to come home, '" she said. "So I go home, I go home for Christmas that year. " Her younger brothers had grown taller. The family dog — an Irish setter — no longer knew who she was. The reunion with her parents was awkward at first, but eventually after many trips back home home to Cape Breton, the old wounds healed. Jessome holding her youngest daughter when she was a baby. (Joan Jessome) She had a third daughter with the same man and they eventually married in 1980. She worked a number of part-time jobs, including selling erotically shaped chocolates, to help keep the family afloat as best she could.
"I really do have a real fondness and love for this province. I believe my reputation, I feel I could do more here than at a national level. " Jessome said she would like to focus on mental health issues. As a public opponent of every Nova Scotia premier since Liberal Russell MacLellan, Jessome has been the public face of the labour movement in Nova Scotia. She became the first female president of the province's largest public sector union in 1999 and has served eight terms, with her salary currently sitting at $137, 955. The union represents 30, 000 public sector workers.
NSGEU President Joan Jessome speaks with Global TV reporter Mayya Assouad during the launch of The Fairness Express.